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Cornelia Spencer Love

Love was a librarian at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1917 to 1948 and wrote When Chapel Hill Was a Village in 1976. She was a granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer.

Source: UNC Libraries: Cornelia Spencer Love Papers, 1898-1978 finding aid

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4 indexed records are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Cornelia Spencer Love.

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Oral history interview with Cornelia Spencer Love, January 26, 1975 interview G-0032, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Love, Cornelia Spencer · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

… Cornelia Spencer Love, granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (the "woman who rang the bell" to signal the re-opening of the University of North Carolina after Reconstruction) talks about her family, life at the University in the "old days," and her relations with Chapel Hill's black community.

The University of North Carolina Library Extension Publication. Adventures in Reading [1935]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1935 · The University of North Carolina Press

Love, Cornelia Spencer, 1892-1981.

Walter Reece Berryhill papers, 1919-1979.

Berryhill, W. Reece (Walter Reece), 1900-1979 · 1919

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  1. Cornelia Spencer Love works as a librarian at the University of North Carolina Love came to Chapel Hill and worked in the university library from 1917 to 1948. She later wrote When Chapel Hill Was a Village, published in 1976.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Cornelia Spencer Love Papers, 1898-1978 finding aid
  2. Cornelia Spencer Love serves as a founding trustee of the Chapel Hill Public Library Love was a trustee of the public library from its start in 1958 until 1970 and secretary of its board of directors. The library began in a small house in downt…Search the index · Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation: History
  3. Cornelia Spencer Love gives private funds toward a new library on East Franklin Street Love donated private money during the 1960s to help build the town's new public library on East Franklin Street.Search the index · Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation: History
  4. A.D. Clark Pool opens Chapel Hill's swimming pool for Black residents, at the Roberson Street community center and now the A.D. Clark Pool, was dedicated on June 15, 1961. Cornelia … People: Cornelia Spencer LoveChapel Hill Weekly (June 19, 1961): pool dedication report
  5. The Love Trust is established for the Chapel Hill Public Library A $350,000 estate gift from Cornelia Spencer Love created the Love Trust in 1982. The library foundation has managed it since 1999 and it has given the library…Search the index · Chapel Hill Public Library Foundation: History

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