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Born in Hillsborough in 1919, Wallace earned her MA and PhD at the university in Chapel Hill and followed a nearly forty-year career as an archivist and teacher of archives, becoming director of the Southern Historical Collection and curator of manuscripts. She lived at Carol Woods in Chapel Hill for over 33 years and was the last of its founding members.
Source: Walker's Funeral Home: Carolyn Wallace obituary
1919–2013 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Carolyn Andrews Wallace writes on what the new copyright law meant for archivists and for manuscript collections, printed by the Society of Georgia Archivists in Atlanta and detached from Georgia Archive for fall 1978. Wallace is associated with the Southern Historical Collection in the library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Carolyn Andrews Wallace's paper on the Southern Historical Collection in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, read before the Society of American Archivists at its twenty-seventh annual meeting on October 4, 1963. Issued as an offprint from the American Archivist, volume 28, number 3, July 1965.
Thirty three letters of Rena C. Harrell, written between 1962 and 1966, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3751-z. The correspondence concerns the Burwell school for girls at Hillsborough and social conditions in the town, and people and organizations represented include Mary Claire Engstrom, Carolyn Andrews Wallace, Hugh Conway Browning and Thomas Hugh Spence.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wallace, Carolyn Andrews, 1919-2013.
Manuscripts Department records from the library at Chapel Hill, 1926 to 2014 with the bulk dated 1926 to 1996, approximately 25,200 items in 36 linear feet, University Archives 40052. Topics include archives and archival resources in North Carolina, audiovisual archives, and the Southern Historical Collection and Southern Folklife Collection. People represented include Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, James Welch Patton, and Carolyn Andrews Wallace.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wallace, Carolyn Andrews, 1919-2013.
Newspaper profile by Betty Hodges of Carolyn Andrews Wallace, the historian and librarian who directed the Southern Historical Collection in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It appeared in the Durham Morning Herald for November 30, 1975, and this copy was detached from that issue by the Durham Herald Company.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wallace, Carolyn Andrews, 1919-2013.
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