Person in the county’s record

Betty Smith

3 works in the index name this person.

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Context

What it was and why it mattered

NCpedia: Betty Smith NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry

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Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time

State Archives catalog: 8 collections naming Betty Smith State Archives of North Carolina Manuscripts, county and state records held in Raleigh; consult on site

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Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room in Hillsborough: books, maps, microfilm, family files, and staff who know the county

In the index

Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this person. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Betty Smith : life of the author of A tree grows in Brooklyn

Yow, Valerie Raleigh. · 2008 · Wolf's Pond Press

Library of Congress

Samuel Moyle Boone photographic collection, circa late 1940s-early 1960s.

Boone, Samuel Moyle · 1944

UNC

Charles Mills papers, 1937-1981.

Mills, Charles, 1914-1982 · 1937

UNC

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