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Bayard Wootten

Bayard Morgan Wootten (1875–1959), a New Bern photographer, won significant recognition after she moved to Chapel Hill in 1928. Her Wootten-Moulton Studios there were the official photographers for the Carolina Playmakers and the Yackety Yack yearbook. She retired in 1954, sold the Chapel Hill studio and returned to New Bern.

Source: UNC Libraries, Wilson Special Collections: Bayard Morgan Wootten Photographic Collection, circa 1870-1988

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7 indexed works are connected with this person.

Bayard Wootten, photograph, 1959
Bayard Wootten, photograph, 1959

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Nellie Holmes Johnson (b. 1918) : Georgia Small Lance (b. 1926) : Genevieve Chandler Peterkin (b. 1928) : Cad Holmes (b. 1945)

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959; Peterkin, Genevieve C. (Genevieve Chandler), 1928-2011; Lance, Georgia Small, 1926-; Johnson, Nellie Holmes, 1918-; Holmes, Cad, 1945-; Wells, Randall A., 1942-; Coastal Carolina University · 2001

A transcript of a session recorded on January 27, 2000, in which four Horry County, South Carolina residents, Nellie Holmes Johnson, Georgia Small Lance, Genevieve Chandler Peterkin and Cad Holmes, identify the people in photographs Bayard Wootten made there in 1937 and 1938. Randall A. Wells transcribed the videotape, and the participants corrected it in 2001. The photographs are associated with the university's North Carolina Collection.

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Bayard Wootten photographs : North Carolina Collection, UNC Library at Chapel Hill.

2000 · Coastal Carolina University and the Waccamaw Center for Regional Studies

Videotaped interview of 147 minutes about the Bayard Wootten photographs in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina library in Chapel Hill, recorded for the Horry County Oral History Project sponsored by Coastal Carolina University and the Waccamaw Center for Regional Studies. Wootten lived from 1875 to 1959, and the interview concerns African American life in Horry County, South Carolina. A separate transcript is available.

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View from Battle Seat, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959 · 1942 · Graycraft Card Co., Danville, Va

Bayard Wootten took the photograph for this 1942 Graycraft postcard of the view from Battle Seat in Chapel Hill, the bench honoring Kemp Plummer Battle. Aviation cadet T. C. Poole of Lewis Hall, then training at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, mailed it to a friend in place of a letter.

Manning Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Wootten, Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959 · 1939 · Gray & Thompson Advertising, Chapel Hill, N.C

Manning Hall on the Chapel Hill campus, photographed by Bayard Wootten for a natural-finish postcard made by Gray and Thompson of Chapel Hill in 1939. The sender's note on the back tells of arriving safely, a family dinner, a rainy departure from Hillsville and broken glasses.

Miscellaneous Postcard Collection

Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Office of Archives and History. Division of Archives and Records · 1900

Postcards gathered from many sources, 1900s to 2005, arranged in five series: single cards, addressed cards, postcard packets, oversize cards and miscellany. Places and subjects span North Carolina and beyond, from Alamance Battleground to the Appalachian Mountains, and Chapel Hill and Hillsborough scenes are among them.

William Lanier Hunt papers, 1880s-1996.

Hunt, William Lanier · 1884

Papers of the horticulturist William Lanier Hunt, dated from the 1880s to 1996, about 40,000 items in 130 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5286. Topics include southern gardens and garden design, horticultural societies and teaching, the North Carolina Botanical Garden and its foundation, photographs of flowers, and the botanist William Chambers Coker at Chapel Hill.

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Albert Coates and Gladys Hall Coates papers, 1841-2001

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Joint papers of Albert Coates (1896-1989) and Gladys Hall Coates, 1841 to 2001, about 51,600 items in 73.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3818. The papers cover the law school and the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, student government, local government and community organization in North Carolina, the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, scouting, and the photographer Bayard Morgan Wootten.

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Life and Orange County connections

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  1. Bayard Wootten photographs the Playmakers' outdoor Taming of the Shrew Bayard Wootten of New Bern came to Chapel Hill to photograph the Carolina Playmakers' outdoor production of The Taming of the Shrew, the start of years of Playmakers work. That month she also urged the University to have aerial photographs made of the growing campus.Search the index · North Carolina Newspapers: The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1923, page 3
  2. Bayard Wootten opens a Chapel Hill studio over Foister's store Bayard Wootten arranged with R. W. Foister to use the upper floor of his store as a studio, making portraits there every Saturday and taking photographs in homes and outdoors. By 1928 the Wootten-Moulton Studio over Foister's was her Chapel Hill base.Search the index · North Carolina Newspapers: The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 6, 1926, page 1
  3. Bayard Wootten shows her Mobile photographs at Person Hall Bayard Wootten gave a talk, A Photographer Discusses Mobile in the Spring, in the small gallery at Person Hall, where a collection of the pictures she had made in Mobile that spring was on exhibit.Search the index · North Carolina Newspapers: The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 16, 1946, page 8
  4. Bayard Wootten sells her Chapel Hill studio and returns to New Bern Bayard Wootten sold the Wootten-Moulton Studio to her longtime manager T. C. Moore, who kept it running, and left Chapel Hill for her old home town of New Bern.Search the index · North Carolina Newspapers: The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1954, page 1
  5. Chapel Hill Public Library shows Bayard Wootten photographs after her death Weeks after Bayard Wootten died in New Bern, the Chapel Hill Public Library displayed her 1930s photographs of western North Carolina, made to illustrate two UNC Press books, Backwoods America and Cabins in the Laurel.Search the index · North Carolina Newspapers: The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 23, 1959, page 8

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