Businesses, mills and venues
In Chapel Hill. 7 dated events, 1931–1998.
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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about The Intimate Bookshop, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
An announcement issued as the first number of The Bookshop Times on November 10, 1993, marking the reopening of the Intimate Bookshop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The Intimate was an independent bookstore on the town's main commercial street.
Hearings of 1953 before the Senate subcommittee that investigated the Internal Security Act, printed by the Government Printing Office. The sessions took up underground printing and illegal propaganda, and part of the testimony concerns the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, with Milton A. and Minna A. Abernethy and Paul Crouch among the witnesses.
Photographs of the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Milton Abernethy, its founder and owner, stands outside the shop; other views show the storefront in 1978 and at an unknown date, and later owners Wallace and Brenda Kuralt pose in front of it.
Browsing the shelves of the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, 1952: a group of university students among the books. From the student life pictures in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
Paul Smith (1904-1977) left papers covering 1937 to 1968, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4211. The papers concern bookselling in North Carolina and the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, and on the publishing side to the Modern Pilgrim Press, the Federal Writers' Project, and Josef Berger's 'Cape Cod pilot', with Cape Cod in literature among the subjects.
The Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, 1930 to 1978, in seven photographs: customers inside the shop, the storefront, and the shop with its new owners, Wallace and Brenda Kuralt. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Milton A. Abernethy, owner of the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, posed outside the shop in an undated photograph. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Photocopied newspaper articles on the Intimate Bookshop, the Chapel Hill bookstore, in the Businesses series of the Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001). Undated.
The Intimate Bookshop and University Cleaners, two Chapel Hill storefronts shown together in one undated photograph. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
Catalogs issued by the Intimate Bookshop of Chapel Hill, gathered under a title the cataloger devised, with 1950 given as the date. A bookseller's catalog lists the stock offered and the prices asked, so these sheets show what the shop was selling its Chapel Hill customers at mid century. The material also concerns North Carolina bibliography.
Frances Gray Patton's short appreciation of Chapel Hill, reprinted from Holiday magazine for August 1966 and issued the same year by the Intimate Bookshop as a gift for its friends in an edition of 2,000 copies. Fifteen unnumbered pages with illustrations by Mary Beth Wiebe. It concerns description and travel writing about the town and the university.
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