A Rare Pattern
Lucy Phillips Russell's autobiography, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1957 when the author was in her nineties. Born in 1862, Russell recalls life in Chapel Hill and Orange County from 1865 to 1945. 185 pages.
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Lucy Phillips Russell
1862–1862 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Lucy Phillips Russell.
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By Lucy Phillips Russell
Scrapbook, chiefly clippings of historical sketches in C. Hill weekly
Lucy Phillips Russell, 1862 to 1962, compiled this large unpaged volume in 1938, filling it chiefly with clippings of historical sketches from a Chapel Hill weekly paper. Russell compiled and published the volume in Rockingham, North Carolina. Part of the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
About Lucy Phillips Russell
W. A. Blair papers, 1931.
Two items from 1931 in the papers of William Allen Blair, concerning Julia Charlotte Hooper Graves, Lucy Phillips Russell and housing in Chapel Hill. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1601-z.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Lucy Phillips, 1862-1962.
Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974.
Phillips Russell (1884-1974) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina and wrote biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Paul Jones. His papers, 7,800 items in fourteen linear feet covering 1861 to 1974, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4004. Topics include his publishers, his teaching, the writer Lucy Phillips Russell, and colleagues such as Henry Horace Williams and John Ehle.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Lucy Phillips, 1862-1962.
Charles Phillips papers, 1807-1968.
Papers connected with Charles Phillips (1822-1889), a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina, spanning 1807 to 1968, about nine hundred items in 3.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 2462. The papers follow the family into later generations, naming Laura Battle Phillips, Lucy Phillips Russell and Phillips Russell, and concern schools and women's higher education in New Jersey and social life in Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Russell, Lucy Phillips, 1862-1962.
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- UNC Libraries (opens in a new tab) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Duke Libraries (opens in a new tab) Duke University, Durham
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- Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 1 collection naming Lucy Phillips Russell State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
- Read contemporary evidence: DigitalNC newspapers: 159 Orange County pages naming Lucy Phillips Russell DigitalNC Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Lucy Phillips Russell NC LIVE 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
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