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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mabel Brooks Womack Photograph Album #5119, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Susan Womack Reece of Lincoln, Mass., in February 2003 (Acc. 99441).

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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History--20th century.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.
• May Day--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Teachers--North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Presidents.
• Womack, Mabel Brooks, 1896-1985.

Mabel Brooks Womack (1896-1985) was an 18-year-old public school teacher in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the 1914-1915 school year.

This photograph album was kept by Mabel Brooks Womack, a young public school teacher, 1914-1915, while she lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. The approximately 60 photographs are images taken on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and its environs. Included are a photograph of a procession of academics, among them professors Venable, Battle, Alderman, and Edward Kidder Graham, at Graham's 1915 inauguration as University president and an extensive series of photographs of a costumed May festival.

Separated item is photograph album (PA-5119/1).