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Orange County landfill campaign
Siting, expansion and closure of the landfill, and the neighborhood’s demands, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.
6 works · grouped from 6 catalog subject headings
Places represented Orange County · North Carolina · Chapel Hill · Carrboro
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The Complete Subject Index
Looking for the original language used in library catalogs? The Complete Subject Index contains all 26,205 subject headings connected to these records. Related headings, such as spelling variants of a person’s name or headings that share a common beginning, are grouped into 13,544 browse terms.
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People
Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945 (1)
Dabney, Virginius, -- 1901-1995 (1)
Daniel, Clifton, 1912-2000 (1)
Daniels, Jonathan, 1902-1981 (4)
Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948 (7)
Danziger, Edward G., 1893- (2)
Darboven, Hanne -- Exhibitions (1)
Dartmouth, William Legge, -- Earl of, -- 1731-1801 (1)
Dashiell, John Frederick, 1888-1975 (1)
Davidson, William Lee, 1746-1781 (4)
Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820 (11)
Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892 (2)
Davis, Ashley -- Interviews (1)
Davis, F. A., Active 1880-1881 (1)
Davis, Nate, -- 1951?- -- Interviews (4)
Davis, Walter Royal, -- 1920-2008 (3)
Day, William Henry, 1843-1908. (1)
Dean, John W. (John Wesley), 1938- (1)
Dejean, Alexander, 1841-1882. (1)
Denny, Floyd W., 1923-2001 (1)
Devereux, Frances (Pollock), 1771-1849. (1)
Devereux, John, 1761-1844. (1)
Devereux, Thomas P. (Thomas Pollock), 1793-1869. (1)
Devereux, Thomas Pollock, 1845-1913. (1)
DeVries, David L. -- Interviews (1)
Dewey, George Stanley, 1841-1865 (1)
Dey, William Morton, 1880-1961 (1)
Dick, Robert P. -- 1831-1919 (1)
Dickson, Joseph, 1745-1825 (1)
Diefenbach, Eric -- Art collections -- Exhibitions (1)
Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925 (1)
Dobbin, James C. (James Cochran), 1814-1857 (1)
Dolan, Margaret Baggett, 1914-1974 (1)
Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009 (1)
Donelson, Daniel, 1844-1906. (1)
Dorrance, Anson (5)
Douglas, Andrew, Active 1856-1868 (1)
Douglas, Dorothy W. (Dorothy Wolff), 1890-1968 (1)
Douglas, Henry, Active 1856-1868 (1)
Douglas, Malcolm, Active 1856-1886 (1)
Dowd, Cornelius Furman, 1840-1914. (1)
Downs, Robert B (Robert Bingham), 1903-1991 (1)
Downshire, Wills Hill, -- Marquis of, -- 1718-1793 (5)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 Bibliography (1)
Dromgoole, Peter Pelham, -- 1815- (4)
Dry, William (7)
Dunning, William Archibald, 1857-1922 (1)
Durham, Carl Thomas, 1892-1974 (5)
Durham, Matthew, -- approximately 1730-1795 -- Family (1)
Durham, Walter, -- 1948?- -- Interviews (1)
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These headings come from Library of Congress and local vocabularies used by the participating libraries. Counts show linked works in Orange County Indexed. Related headings are grouped automatically, and the People section combines common name variants. Report corrections through the contact form.
About Orange County Indexed
Orange County Indexed brings together records about Orange County from twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina, the Digital Public Library of America, DataCite, and Crossref. This page searches the full index, including books, maps, archival collections, government documents, campus materials, digitized primary sources, and published research about the county.
Filters and browse terms are derived from source catalog headings, which remain available in the Complete Subject Index. Every result links to its source record. Use Advanced options to narrow the results, browse books held by OCPL, or download the index as a spreadsheet.
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