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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lawrence Flinn Diary, #3253-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from George Watts Hill of Chapel Hill, N.C., October 1956.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Egypt--Description and travel.
• Flinn, Lawrence, d. 1945.
• France--Description and travel.
• Greece--Description and travel.
• Italy--Description and travel.
• Travelers--Europe--Diaries.

Lawrence Flinn (d. 1945), native of Pittsburgh, Pa., was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and graduate student at Duke University. He settled in Chapel Hill, N.C., and was married to Marion DeVlaming of Roxboro, N.C. He was vice president and treasurer of the Institute of Applied Econometrics, Inc., New York, and studied, traveled, and was a sometime lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and the University of Freiburg. He served as a staff sergeant in World War II and was killed in action at the Battle of the Rhine, March 1945.

The collection includes the diary, 20 December 1930 to 11 March 1931, kept by Lawrence Flinn while he was on a trip to France, Italy, Egypt, and Greece, sightseeing, studying, and vacationing with friends including Wallace Caldwells, Benjamin Chandler Shaw, and others.