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Material about the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Canopy from a Mercury training simulator used in astronaut instruction at the Morehead Planetarium, UNC-Chapel Hill. Photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Photographs and documents on the planetarium's astronaut training, shown in the permanent collection exhibit area on the ground floor beside the theater at Morehead Planetarium. North Carolina ECHO photograph, Chapel Hill, 30 May 2002.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Original instruments from the Caldwell Observatory, UNC's first observatory, dating to about 1838, on exhibit at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. Photographed 30 May 2002 for North Carolina ECHO.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Exhibit text on Joseph Caldwell, founder of the Caldwell Observatory at UNC and the university's first president, photographed at the Morehead Planetarium on 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Autographed photograph marking the 25th anniversary of the Mercury astronauts, with signatures including Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, as shown at the Morehead Planetarium. North Carolina ECHO photograph, 30 May 2002.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
A portrait from the Morehead personal collection, now shown in the rotunda of the Morehead Planetarium at UNC-Chapel Hill. Photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Model of the solar system kept in storage at the Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill. North Carolina ECHO photograph taken 30 May 2002.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Astronaut training exhibit at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. NASA trained most of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts in the planetarium's facilities. North Carolina ECHO photograph, 30 May 2002.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Close view of the exterior sign across the planetarium's facade at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in Chapel Hill, taken 30 May 2002 for North Carolina ECHO.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
North Carolina ECHO (Project) · 2002
Exterior of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, photographed 30 May 2002 for the North Carolina ECHO project.
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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Dwane Powell Cartoon, December 22, 1982
Powell, Dwane · 1982 · The News and Observer
Dwane Powell's News and Observer cartoon of 22 December 1982 takes up the Morehead Planetarium, church and state, and UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III. Kept in folder 1982-09 of his syndicate copies and clippings.
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Chancellor Taylor at Morehead Planetarium
Morton, Hugh M. · 1973
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor of UNC-Chapel Hill stands before the sundial at Morehead Planetarium in June 1973, on a color slide by Hugh Morton.
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Morehead Planetarium, circa 1970s-early 1980s
Morton, Hugh M. · 1970
Sundial and flowers in the foreground of the Morehead Planetarium on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, photographed by Hugh Morton sometime between the 1970s and the early 1980s. Color sheet film negative, 4 by 5 inches.
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Morehead Planetarium, late 1970s-early 1980s
Morton, Hugh M. · 1970
Rose bushes and the sundial in front of the Morehead Planetarium at UNC-Chapel Hill, a 35 mm color slide by Hugh Morton from the late 1970s or early 1980s.
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Control panel and instructions for the Morehead Planetarium show, 1962
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Kenneth Rogers photograph for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution of the control panel and show instructions at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, 18 July 1962, made for a story by Andy Sparks that ran on 26 August 1962. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs.
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Exterior of the Morehead Planetarium at the Unviersity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1962
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Outside view of the Morehead Planetarium at UNC-Chapel Hill, taken by Kenneth Rogers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on 18 July 1962 for an Andy Sparks story printed 26 August 1962. The accompanying caption names Richard Dodson, a retired New York editor who lectured there three times a week.
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Morehead Planetarium director Anthony Jenzano with the planetarium's Zeiss projector, 1962
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Director Anthony Jenzano beside the Zeiss projector of the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, photographed by Kenneth Rogers of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on 18 July 1962 for a story by Andy Sparks published that August.
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Morehead Planetarium employee Richard Dodson during a guided show entitled "You on the Moon," 1962, 1962-07-18
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Kenneth Rogers photographed Richard Dodson guiding the 'You on the Moon' show at Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill on 18 July 1962 for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dodson, a retired New York editor, lectured at the planetarium three times a week. The picture ran with Andy Sparks's story on 26 August 1962.
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Morehead Planetarium employee Richard Dodson during a guided show entitled "You on the Moon," 1962, 1962-07-18
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Richard Dodson, a Morehead Planetarium lecturer, leads the show 'You on the Moon' in Chapel Hill on 18 July 1962. Kenneth Rogers took the picture for an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story by Andy Sparks that ran on 26 August 1962.
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Morehead Planetarium projector and moon projection, 1962, 1962-07-18
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Atlanta Journal-Constitution photograph by Kenneth Rogers of the Morehead Planetarium projector casting an image of the moon, taken in Chapel Hill on 18 July 1962 for Andy Sparks's story on the planetarium's moon trip show, published 26 August 1962.
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Morehead Planetarium projector and moon projection, 1962, 1962-07-18
Atlanta Journal-Constitution · 1962
Atlanta Journal-Constitution news photograph from 18 July 1962 of the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Director Anthony Jenzano stands before the dome, which carries a 30-foot image of the moon, beside the two-ton star projector that could put 9,000 stars in the sky. Part of the newspaper's photograph collection.
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Morehead Planetarium, aerial view
Morton, Hugh M. · 1960
Aerial view by Hugh Morton of Morehead Planetarium and its sundial on the Chapel Hill campus, taken in the 1960s or 1970s. Color sheet film transparency.
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Morehead Planetarium and sundial
Morton, Hugh M. · 1957
Color transparency by Hugh Morton of the sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium, with shrubbery and a parking lot full of cars. The date, about 1957, was worked out from the style of a Tennessee license plate on one of the vehicles.
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Morehead Planetarium sundial
Morton, Hugh M. · 1957
Hugh Morton's black-and-white negative of the sundial, shrubs and parking lot before Morehead Planetarium on the UNC campus, about 1957. As with his color version, the date rests on the style of a Tennessee license plate on a car in the foreground.
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Morehead Planetarium, circa 1950
Morton, Hugh M. · 1950
Morehead Planetarium on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, photographed by Hugh Morton about 1950. A cropped print ran on the cover of The State magazine for 17 June 1950. Black-and-white sheet film negative.
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Morehead Planetarium, circa 1950s
Morton, Hugh M. · 1950
Hugh Morton's color transparency of the Morehead Planetarium at UNC-Chapel Hill, made about the 1950s on 4 by 5 1/4 inch sheet film. The building was a gift of John Motley Morehead III.
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Morehead Planetarium, circa 1950s
Morton, Hugh M. · 1950
Morehead Planetarium on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus in the 1950s, a color sheet film transparency, 4 by 5 1/4 inches, by Hugh Morton. The planetarium opened in 1949.
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Morehead, John Motley: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)
1949
John Motley Morehead at the cornerstone ceremony for what became the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, dated 1949. From the UNC Faculty and Administration photographs in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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The Morehead Building, University of North Carolina.
John Motley Morehead Foundation · 1947
The John Motley Morehead Foundation issued this account of the Morehead Building at Chapel Hill in 1947, twenty two unnumbered pages with illustrations, portraits and plans. Copies carry an attached program and invitation to the exercises at the laying of the cornerstone. Subjects include John Motley Morehead III and the Morehead Planetarium along with the college buildings of the university.
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Morehead Planetarium: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)
1947
Seventeen photographs of the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1988, beginning with the cornerstone laying ceremony. Others show an event outside the building and its front and rear. Part of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.
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Early conceptual drawing of UNC's Morehead Planetarium, 1937
1937
Schell Lewis's 1937 conceptual drawing of the Morehead Planetarium at UNC, reproduced as a graphite print on beige paper. It shows the building from the southwest, students on the steps and trees in front, and is framed in black wood with a white mat, about 67 by 48 cm.
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John Motley Morehead III papers, 1914-1988
Morehead, John Motley, III, 1870-1965 · 1914
Fifteen linear feet of papers from John Motley Morehead III (1870-1965), approximately 8,000 items covering 1914 to 1988, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 70156. The papers concern the Morehead Planetarium, the John Motley Morehead Foundation, Union Carbide Corporation and buildings and structures in Chapel Hill.
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Morehead Planetarium (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)
Morehead Planetarium at Chapel Hill in newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, a magazine article and notes. An undated folder in box 37 of the UNC series in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection.
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Morehead Planetarium Sun Dial, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina News Company, Durham, N.C
The sundial at Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, issued as a photographic postcard by the North Carolina News Company of Durham. No photographer is credited and the entry carries no date.
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Morehead Planetarium Zeiss Instrument, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Morton, Hugh M. · Hugh Morton, Wilmington, N.C
Postcard by Hugh Morton of the Zeiss star projector at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. The caption calls it the first such instrument in the world owned by a university and says it could project 9,000 stars and planets as seen from anywhere on earth. Undated.
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Morehead Planetarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Ruth, C. H. · North Carolina News Company, Durham, N.C
Credited to C. H. Ruth, this North Carolina News Company card from Durham shows Morehead Planetarium at Chapel Hill.
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Morehead Planetarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Taylor, Jack · Photo Center, Fayetteville, N.C
Morehead Planetarium on the Chapel Hill campus, credited to Jack Taylor and published by Photo Center of Fayetteville. Subjects include the modern form of the university's name.
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Shapiro, Lee: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)
Lee Shapiro, director of the Morehead Planetarium, in an informal undated photograph from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's UNC Faculty and Administration binder.
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The Morehead Planetarium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ruth, C. H. · Aerial Photography Services, Charlotte, N.C
Aerial view of the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina, a postcard by C. H. Ruth for Aerial Photography Services of Charlotte. The caption credits the building to the engineer and industrialist John Motley Morehead and notes the Zeiss projector under its 68-foot dome. Undated.
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Not about Morehead Planetarium alone: the architectural surveys that cover its town or the county, and maps drawn while it stood. Several of the surveys can be read free online at NC Digital Collections.
