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Roosevelt spoke in Memorial Hall at UNC on January 31, 1942 to a capacity audience of about 2,000, closing a two-day conference on post-war planning run by the Carolina Political Union and the International Student Service. She also appeared at a birthday ball in Lenoir dining hall.
Source: Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): February 1, 1942, page 1
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Four photographs of Danziger's, dated 1950 to 1977: an advertisement and sign, Eleanor Roosevelt inside with Charles Long, Anne Deal, John Sanders and William Geer, owner Edward Danziger with staff in the gift shop, and the Old World Gift Shop storefront.
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Eleanor Roosevelt talks with a group of men in a room whose walls carry maps or plans during her visit to UNC on 31 January 1942. She came as keynote speaker for a conference on youth and war aims sponsored jointly by the International Student Service and the Carolina Political Union. Hugh Morton, black-and-white sheet film.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Hugh Morton photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt reaching for a glass as she goes through a dining hall line on 31 January 1942, alongside Ridley Whitaker, chairman of the Carolina Political Union, and union leader Lucy Darvin. She had come to Chapel Hill as keynote speaker for a conference sponsored jointly by the International Student Service and the Carolina Political Union. Black-and-white sheet film negative.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Eleanor Roosevelt in conversation in a crowded room at UNC on 31 January 1942, with student Ridley Whitaker at right. Hugh Morton took the picture while she was in Chapel Hill to give the keynote at 'Youth's Stake in War Aims and Peace Plans', a conference the International Student Service organized with the Carolina Political Union. Black-and-white sheet film negative, 3 by 4 inches.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Talking with two Carolina Political Union leaders, chairman Ridley Whitaker and Lucy Darvin, Eleanor Roosevelt stands in a classroom during her 31 January 1942 visit to UNC. Hugh Morton photographed the day, when Roosevelt keynoted a student conference in Chapel Hill on the war and the peace to follow. Black-and-white sheet film negative.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Radio appearance by Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to UNC on 31 January 1942, photographed by Hugh Morton. In Chapel Hill as keynote speaker for a conference of the International Student Service and the Carolina Political Union, she also took part in a nationwide radio discussion. Black-and-white sheet film negative, 3 by 4 inches.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Seated at the head of a table in a UNC dining hall, Eleanor Roosevelt shares a meal with students, faculty and staff on 31 January 1942. Frank Porter Graham and Josephus Daniels are named among those pictured. Hugh Morton photographed the visit, made while Roosevelt keynoted a student conference in Chapel Hill on war aims and peace plans. Black-and-white sheet film negative.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
On the UNC campus on 31 January 1942, Eleanor Roosevelt stands between university president Frank Porter Graham, at left, and student leader Louis Harris, at right, who later became a well-known public opinion pollster. Hugh Morton took the photograph during her visit as keynote speaker for a student conference on youth and the war. Black-and-white sheet film negative.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Group portrait by Hugh Morton at the stage entrance of Memorial Hall, 31 January 1942: Eleanor Roosevelt with her secretary Malvina Thompson at left, UNC president Frank Porter Graham second from left, and Josephus Daniels at right. Roosevelt was in Chapel Hill as keynote speaker for a conference of the International Student Service and the Carolina Political Union.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
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Picture: Eleanor Roosevelt, 1946. CC BY 2.0. Photograph by FDR Presidential Library & Museum; www.flickr.com; via Wikimedia Commons
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