Citizens founded a children's library with gifts in the spring of 1929, and in early October it moved from the Episcopal parish house into a basement room of the Chapel Hill school as the Mary Bayley Pratt Memorial Library, with the school librarian, Miss Evans, in charge and 600 to 700 donated or lent books. On April 28, 1930 its executive board set aside $1,500 given by William Bayley of Springfield, Ohio, brother of the late Mrs. Joseph Hyde Pratt, and his family as the start of a permanent endowment. On May 19 the subscribers adopted a constitution, set yearly memberships from $2 to $100, and elected Mrs. R. H. Wettach president. At the association's annual meeting on March 24, 1931 Joseph Hyde Pratt and his family gave $500 for upkeep. In the year to June 1931 the library lent 17,181 books, an average of 31 for each school child. Mrs. Urban T. Holmes was elected president on March 28, 1934. That June the library cut its yearly membership fee from $5 to $1, its appropriation having fallen from $450 in 1929-30 to $94.61 in 1933-34. In the spring of 1940 the association's campaign brought in more than $185 from 822 contributors, some children giving their weekly allowances, and it authorized $100 more for books for the elementary school library.
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The Church of the Atonement and the Chapel of the Cross at Chapel Hill
Henderson, Archibald · 1938
Archibald Henderson's history of the Episcopal congregation in Chapel Hill, the Church of the Atonement and the Chapel of the Cross, as the title names them. A short work of Chapel Hill church history and of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina, published in Hartford, Connecticut, by the Church Missions Publishing Company in 1938, 57 pages with illustrations and portraits. One copy carries the author's presentation inscription to the North Carolina State Library.
The first parish register of the Chapel of the Cross (1842-1881)
2024 · Chapel Hill Historical Society
Transcription of the first register kept by Chapel of the Cross, the Episcopal parish on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, with its entries from 1842 to 1881. Published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 2024 with an introduction and a bibliography, 142 pages with illustrations and portraits.
Chapel of the Cross : calendar 1996.
1996 · Chapel of the Cross
Wall calendar for 1996 made by two Chapel of the Cross choristers, Jane Hamborsky and Margaret Middleton, who photographed architectural details of the Gothic Revival church in Chapel Hill. Thomas U. Walter designed the chapel, which went up from 1843 to 1848. Black-and-white photographs, from the Images of North Carolina collection.
The word of love : preaching in the ministry of Stephen Elkins-Williams
Elkins-Williams, Stephen, 1944- · 2015 · iUniverse
Sermons preached by Stephen Elkins-Williams during his ministry at the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, collected in 329 pages and published by iUniverse in 2015. Bishop Michael B. Curry and the Reverend Tambria Elizabeth Lee contributed forewords. Illustrations accompany the text.
Wider background: Libraries, Archives & Public Memory · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices
Barefoot, Daniel W. · 2008
Daniel W. Barefoot arranges first-hand recollections of the University of North Carolina by decade, from the 'infant university' of the 1790s through the Civil War years when promise turned to despair, the rebuilding of the 1870s, the 'frosh' life of the 1880s, wartime fame in the 1940s, the controversies of the 1960s and the bicentennial of the 1990s. Thomas Wolfe's student years appear among the voices. Published by John F. Blair of Winston-Salem in 2008, 257 pages.
Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary
Nash, Frank · 1953
Francis Nash's history of Hillsborough in colonial and Revolutionary times, first published in 1903 and reprinted in 1953 by Edwards & Broughton with an index and a sketch of the author. Topics include the Regulator Insurrection of 1766 to 1771, the Revolution and local genealogy.
Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River
2021
Collected first-hand and second-hand stories from the Eno River valley as told from the standpoint of African Americans and Native people who have lived along the river in Orange and Durham counties, from prehistory to the present day. Issued by the Eno River Association in Durham as volume 10, number 2 of the Eno Journal, 2021, 106 pages with illustrations.
African Americans of Durham and Orange counties : an oral history
Bolduc, Jean · 2016 · The History Press
Jean Bolduc's collection of oral history interviews with Black residents of Durham and Orange counties, published by The History Press in 2016, 125 pages with photographs and portraits. The narrators are the poet Jaki Shelton Green, civil rights lawyer Floyd McKissick, Walter Jackson, Nate Davis, Brenda Stephens, Diane Wright, Jackie Wagstaff and Michelle Johnson, and a closing chapter deals with the Ku Klux Klan. The interviews document Black life and race relations in the two counties across the twentieth century.
The Ackland Art Museum: a handbook published in honor of the Museum's twenty-fifth anniversary (1958-1983)
Ackland Art Museum · 1983
A handbook to the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, published by the museum in 1983 for its twenty-fifth anniversary. It combines a catalog of the collection with a history of the museum, which opened in 1958. Includes a bibliography on pages xviii to xx. 170 pages with illustrations, 22 cm.
The Library of the First State University
Wilson, Louis Round · 1960 · University of North Carolina Library
Louis Round Wilson's 40-page review of the University of North Carolina library, subtitled on the cover a review of its past and a look at its future. Wilson had directed the library for three decades before leaving for Chicago, and the university's main library carries his name. Published by the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill in 1960, with illustrations.
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Illuminating the past: a history of the first 75 years of the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2007 · PhotoBook Press
History of the first 75 years of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, produced by the school in 2007. Includes a chronology of the school, biographical sketches of its deans and a register of alumni. Printed by PhotoBook Press of Minneapolis, 119 pages with illustrations, some in color.
Reflections: the University Library, 1992-2004 : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Panitch, Judith M. · 2004
Judith M. Panitch's illustrated account of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library between 1992 and 2004, published by the library in 2004. It is a history of the academic library, and the notes point out its references to the Aldo P. Magi collection of Thomas Wolfe material. 50 pages with color illustrations in an oblong format.
The library, philanthropy, publications, & UNC's emergence as a major American university
Holley, Edward G. · 1998
Edward G. Holley's twelfth Hanes Lecture, given in Wilson Library on 11 April 1995, on how the library, philanthropy and publishing helped the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill become a major American university. Printed by the Hanes Foundation, 28 pages.
The Papers Of Willie Person Mangum
Mangum, Willie Person · 1950 · State Dept. of Archives and History
The papers of Willie Person Mangum, 1792 to 1861, a lawyer, judge and United States senator from the part of Orange County that later became Durham County. Five volumes of correspondence published by the State Department of Archives and History beginning in 1950, arranged by date from 1807 to 1894, with illustrations, portraits and folding maps. A source for antebellum North Carolina and national politics, the Whig Party and the Mangum family.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1951), Journal of American History (1951), The Journal of Southern History (1953), Journal of American History (1953), The Journal of Southern History (1954), The Journal of Southern History (1955), The Journal of Southern History (1957), Journal of American History (1957), The American Historical Review (1957).
A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their University
Whichard, Willis P. · 2022
Willis P. Whichard's biography of David Lowry Swain, governor of North Carolina from 1832 to 1835 and president of the University of North Carolina from 1835 until his death in 1868. The subtitle ties Swain, nineteenth-century North Carolina and the university together, and the book belongs with the lives of college presidents and governors. Published in 2022.
African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties
Bolduc, Jean · 2016
Jean Bolduc's 2016 collection of interviews with African American residents of Durham and Orange counties, presented as short biographies. The subjects are Floyd McKissick (1922-1991), the first African American admitted to UNC's law school, Walter Jackson, Brenda Stephens, Nate Davis, poet Jaki Shelton Green, Jackie Wagstaff, Diane Wright and Michelle Johnson, with a closing chapter on the Ku Klux Klan. 125 pages with illustrations.
