The Old Well

The Old Well Extachrome

Morton, Hugh · Colonial Press

Undated color photograph by Hugh Morton of the Old Well on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, seen from the north quad, published by Colonial Press. Morton, a university alumnus, was a noted photographer and conservationist who created Grandfather Mountain.

Old Well with flowers, 1997

Morton, Hugh M. · 1997

Azaleas in bloom around the Old Well at UNC, photographed by Hugh Morton in 1997. Color slide.

Old Well with flowers, 1997

Morton, Hugh M. · 1997

UNC-Chapel Hill's Old Well framed by azaleas in bloom, a 1997 color slide by Hugh Morton taken in spring or early summer.

Old Well with flowers, 1997

Morton, Hugh M. · 1997

Color slide from 1997 by Hugh Morton: the Old Well on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus with azaleas flowering around it in spring or summer. One of a pair of Morton slides of the scene.

Old Well, April 1992

Morton, Hugh M. · 1992

April 1992 color slide by Hugh Morton of the Old Well at UNC in Chapel Hill, with trees in bloom in front and South Building rising behind. 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well, April 9, 1985

Morton, Hugh M. · 1985

Students gather at the Old Well among flowering trees in a color slide Hugh Morton took at UNC-Chapel Hill on 9 April 1985. One 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well, April 9, 1985

Morton, Hugh M. · 1985

On 9 April 1985 Hugh Morton photographed the Old Well at UNC-Chapel Hill in spring bloom, with students near the well house. One color 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well, April 9, 1985

Morton, Hugh M. · 1985

The Old Well at UNC-Chapel Hill on 9 April 1985, photographed by Hugh Morton, with students at the landmark. One 35 mm color mounted slide.

Old Well, April 9, 1985

Morton, Hugh M. · 1985

Spring view of the Old Well on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, photographed by Hugh Morton on 9 April 1985 with flowering trees around it. A 35 mm color mounted slide.

Old Well, April 9, 1985

Morton, Hugh M. · 1985

Hugh Morton's color slide of the Old Well at UNC-Chapel Hill on 9 April 1985, framed by trees in bloom. The small domed well house is the best-known landmark on the campus. One 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well in mist

Morton, Hugh M. · 1970

Mist hangs over the Old Well in a Hugh Morton color transparency from about the 1970s, taken in fall or winter with South Building and other campus buildings behind.

Old Well, circa 1970s

Morton, Hugh M. · 1970

Azaleas bloom in the foreground of Hugh Morton's color view of the Old Well at UNC-Chapel Hill, with South Building behind, taken about the 1970s. One 4 x 5 inch sheet film transparency.

Old Well, late 1970s-early 1980s

Morton, Hugh M. · 1970

Students and other visitors crowd around the Old Well, South Building behind them, in a Hugh Morton color slide from the late 1970s or early 1980s. The well is the best-known landmark of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. One 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well, April 1968

Morton, Hugh M. · 1968

Dogwood in bloom fills the foreground of Hugh Morton's April 1968 color slide of the Old Well on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill. 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well, April 1968

Morton, Hugh M. · 1968

Hugh Morton's color slide of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, taken in April 1968. A 35 mm mounted slide.

Flowering trees at Old Well

Morton, Hugh M. · 1964

Pink blossoms on a flowering tree near the Old Well at UNC in Chapel Hill, seen from below against a blue sky in spring 1964. Color 35 mm slide by Hugh Morton.

Old Well with flowering trees, Spring 1964

Morton, Hugh M. · 1964

Spring 1964 color slide by Hugh Morton of the Old Well at UNC-Chapel Hill, framed by trees and shrubs in bloom, with South Building behind it. A 35 mm mounted slide.

Old Well with flowering trees, Spring 1964

Morton, Hugh M. · 1964

Hugh Morton's color slide of the Old Well in spring 1964, framed by trees and shrubs in bloom with South Building in the background.

Old Well, 1960s-1970s

Morton, Hugh M. · 1960

The Old Well on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, framed by flowering trees with Old Playmakers Theater behind it. Color sheet film transparency by Hugh Morton from the 1960s or 1970s, 4 by 5 1/4 inches.

Old Well, 1960s-1970s

Morton, Hugh M. · 1960

Spring at the Old Well, with South Building behind, in a Hugh Morton color transparency from the 1960s or 1970s.

Old Well in spring

Morton, Hugh M. · 1950

A couple walks past the Old Well among flowering trees and shrubs in springtime, with South Building beyond. Hugh Morton color transparency from the 1950s to early 1960s.

Old Well, circa 1950

Morton, Hugh M. · 1950

Black-and-white view of the Old Well with South Building behind it, taken by Hugh Morton about 1950 on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. One 4 x 5 1/4 inch sheet film negative.

Old Well, circa 1950s

Morton, Hugh M. · 1950

Visitors at the Old Well photograph a baby in front of the landmark, with South Building in the background. Hugh Morton made the color transparency at UNC-Chapel Hill, probably in the 1950s. One 4 x 5 inch sheet of film.

North Carolina state university [i.e., Univ. North Carolina], Chapel Hill, "old east" and the old well

Orr, Louis · 1949

Etching by Louis Orr of Old East and the Old Well at Chapel Hill, made in 1949; its title wrongly names North Carolina State University for the University of North Carolina. A landscape print showing university buildings and grounds in Chapel Hill at the end of the 1940s.

Old Well, time exposure

Morton, Hugh M. · 1940

An experimental time exposure by Hugh Morton from about the early 1940s. Light trails cross the frame, and the Old Well stands faintly in the distance. Black-and-white roll film negative.

[Letter], 1923 December 16, University of Virginia, Charlottesville [to] Mary Graves Rees, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931 · 1923

A typescript letter of December 16, 1923, written by Edwin Anderson Alderman at the University of Virginia to Mary Graves Rees in Chapel Hill, four leaves in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. With it is a handwritten letter from Eugenia Harris Holt suggesting that her father, Eugene Lewis Harris, helped design the Old Well, and the original envelope. Topics include Chapel Hill architecture and university buildings.

Old South Building and Well, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1917

Postcard of Old South Building and the Old Well in Chapel Hill, about 1917 to 1918. The back carries a printed wartime greeting from university president Edward Kidder Graham to Carolina men serving in France, sending the university's pride and affection and hoping for their safe return.

Old Well, U. of NC., Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Graycraft Card Co. (Danville, Va.) · 1915 · Danville, Va.: Graycraft Card Co

Graycraft Card Co. postcard of the Old Well in Chapel Hill, the small neoclassical rotunda at the south end of McCorkle Place that long supplied the campus with water. Black and white with a divided back, from about 1915 to 1930. Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection.

South Bldg. and Old Well, U. of N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C.

Graycraft Card Co. (Danville, Va.) · 1915 · Danville, Va.: Graycraft Card Co

South Building with the Old Well in front of it, the classic view of the old campus at the University of North Carolina, on a black and white postcard by the Graycraft Card Co. of Danville, Virginia, about 1915 to 1930. White border, divided back. Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection.

The College Well, U.N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C.

1914

Photographic postcard of the College Well on the University of North Carolina campus, sent in 1914. On the back the writer offers New Year wishes, thanks the recipient for kind words and a sprig of pine, and jokes that the boys are acting as if they had found religion. The card is linked to Kemp Plummer Battle, the university's former president.

Black and White Sheet Film WM_153: University of North Carolina: Old Well and South Building, circa 1904-1954: Scan 1

Wootten-Moulton Studios · 1904

Old Well and South Building at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on a Wootten-Moulton Studios black-and-white sheet film negative. Undated, part of the studio's negative series of about 1904 to 1954.

Old Well: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1892

Fourteen photographs of the Old Well in Chapel Hill dated 1892 to 1979. One shows four students at an earlier form of the well; others place it beside South Building and Old East, including a view from across the road. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection, CHHS.002.

Old Well in Front of Old East Dormitory and South Building, U.N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C.

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

The Old Well with Old East and South Building behind it, from a photograph credited to Bayard Morgan Wootten and printed by the Graycraft Card Company of Danville, Virginia.

Old Well in Front of South Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

North Carolina News Company, Durham, N.C

North Carolina News Company postcard of the Old Well, the domed well at the center of the Chapel Hill campus across from South Building, which then held the university's administrative offices. The caption calls the well a traditional gathering place for students and faculty. Undated.

Old West Building and Well, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Old West and the well beside it at the University of North Carolina, on an undated card. It belongs to the North Carolina postcards from UNC at Chapel Hill.

Plaster medallion depicting UNC's Old Well and South Building

Round plaster medallion, 12 cm across, with a colored relief of the Old Well and South Building and the words 'The Old Well, University of North Carolina.' The Old Well stands at the south end of McCorkle Place and appears in the university's logo. Undated.

South Building and Well, U.N.C.

Piedmont Supply Co

South Building and its well at the University of North Carolina, on a card from Piedmont Supply Company.

The College Well, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Graves, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere), 1886-1950

Ink drawing of the College Well by Mary deB. Graves, printed as a postcard. Its caption recalls that the old shed over the well gave way in 1897 to a small columned temple built under President Edwin Alderman, and that a pump later replaced the oaken bucket. Undated.

The Old Well, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Taylor, Jack · Photo Center, Fayetteville, N.C

The Old Well at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, photographed by Jack Taylor and published by Photo Center of Fayetteville.

Map of Chapel Hill as it was in 1875 to 1885

Carter, H. D. (Henry Dennis), -1941 · 1934

Henry Dennis Carter's reconstruction, drawn as a blueprint in 1934, of Chapel Hill as it stood between 1875 and 1885, showing the buildings of the village. A note on the map says the information came from old residents who gave it to Mary L. Thornton.

[Map of Chapel Hill and vicinity].

Harris, Hunter Lee, 1866-1893 · 1888 · Hunter Lee Harris?

Dating from 1888 and attributed to Hunter Lee Harris, a map of Chapel Hill and its vicinity, reproduced as a photocopy measuring 22 by 37 centimeters. Harris died in 1893, which brackets the drawing to the late nineteenth century. An early depiction of the streets of the village and the land around it.

[Map of Chapel Hill].

1895

Pen-and-ink manuscript map of Chapel Hill dated 1852, with a table of measurements, showing the University campus, the village around it, street widths and layout, and the town limits. Later notes attributed to Kemp P. Battle give the longitude and latitude of landmarks as measured from atop New East Hall in 1880.

Map of Chapel Hill & vicinity.

1933

Street and property map of Chapel Hill and the surrounding country, revised to 1 January 1933 and printed in the town. Topics include streets, real property and the historical geography of Chapel Hill along with maps of the University of North Carolina in its 1793 to 1962 period. A useful sheet for tracing lot lines and street names as they stood at the start of the 1930s.