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Cornelia Phillips Spencer

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Old Days in Chapel Hill

Chamberlain, G. Hope Summerell · 1926

Oral history interview with Cornelia Spencer Love, January 26, 1975 interview G-0032, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Love, Cornelia Spencer, · 2008 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Cornelia Spencer Love, granddaughter of Cornelia Phillips Spencer (the "woman who rang the bell" to signal the re-opening of the University of North Carolina after Reconstruction) talks about her family, life at the Uni…

The last ninety days of the war in North-Carolina

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, · 2005 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

More than petticoats

Cohn, Scotti · 2000

Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer

Cobb, Collier, 1862-1934 · 1908 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

UNC

Records of the Women's Concerns Coalition, 1988-1996.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Women's Concerns Coalition · 1988

UNC

Men, movements, and incidents in the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1974

UNC

John Kenyon Chapman papers, 1969-2009.

Chapman, John Kenyon · 1969

UNC

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