Local figure
Porter Robinson
Electronic musician Porter Robinson grew up in Chapel Hill. In 2014, the year of his debut album Worlds, he had deferred enrollment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to tour and still spent most of his time in Chapel Hill.
Source: The FADER: Porter Robinson Conquered EDM, and Now He Wants More
1992– as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
Orange County Indexed has not yet linked an indexed work directly to Porter Robinson. The biography on this page provides sources about Porter Robinson’s life and work. If you know a useful source, tell us.
Research sources
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Records of the time
- DigitalNC newspapers: 4 Orange County pages naming Porter Robinson Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Porter Robinson Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
Local help
- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
Search further
Ready-made searches in other catalogs and collections. Results are not checked against this person.
Books about Porter Robinson
- WorldCat (opens in a new tab) Library catalogs worldwide
- OCPL (opens in a new tab) Orange County Public Library
More catalogs that show where copies are
- Chapel Hill Public Library (opens in a new tab) Public library in Chapel Hill
- Durham County Library (opens in a new tab) Public library next door in Durham
- UNC Libraries (opens in a new tab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Duke Libraries (opens in a new tab) Duke University, Durham
- NC Cardinal (opens in a new tab) The State Library of North Carolina and public libraries across the state
Photographs, papers, and newspapers
- DigitalNC (opens in a new tab) North Carolina newspapers, yearbooks, and photographs
- DPLA (opens in a new tab) Digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums across the country
Historical records and collections
- Internet Archive (opens in a new tab) Digitized books, directories, and local histories
- HathiTrust (opens in a new tab) Full text of digitized books
- ArchiveGrid (opens in a new tab) Papers held by archives across the country
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Picture: Porter Robinson, photograph, 2014. CC BY-SA 3.0. Astralwerks promotional portrait, 2014; via Wikimedia Commons
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