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Sam Ragan

From the state marker

“Journalist and author. First Secretary, Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1972. Was N.C. Poet Laureate, 1982-1996. Born ½ m. N.”

State historical marker: G-145: Sam Ragan 1915-1996

1915–1996 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Photographic Services · 1976

Photographs produced by the Photographic Services unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1976 and 2003, about 2,500 items in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Includes a run of copy negatives, 1977 to 2006. Subjects include William Aycock, Doris Betts, Reynolds Price, Dean Smith, William S. Powell and Hugh Morton.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996.

UNC

Norval Neil Luxon papers, circa 1930-1989.

Luxon, Norval Neil, 1899-1989 · 1930

Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a faculty member at Chapel Hill and Ohio State University, and his papers, circa 1930 to 1989, run to about 12,800 items in 15.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4585. Journalists fill the subject list, among them James Reston, Vermont Royster, Clifton Daniel, Gerald W. Johnson, Sam Ragan and Holt McPherson, with William C. Friday and Gail Godwin also named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996.

UNC

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