Bill Smith T-Shirt and Cookbook Collection, 1950s-2014

Collection Number: 20498

Collection Title: Bill Smith T-Shirt and Cookbook Collection, 1950s-2014

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Size	24.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)
Abstract	Bill Smith is a white chef and author in Carrboro, N.C. The Bill Smith T-Shirt and Cookbook Collection, 1950s-2014, consists of Smith's collected T-shirts, chiefly of rock bands that performed at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., and community cookbooks published by churches and women's organizations located across the South.
Creator	Smith, Bill, 1949 January 11-
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access: The T-shirts in this collection are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting this collection.

Restrictions to Use: No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Bill Smith T-Shirt Collection #20498, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Bill Smith in February 2014 (Acc. 102015) and from the Chapel Hill Public Library in November 2019 (Acc. 103750).

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A summary description was created in March 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith, March 2018

Revisions by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2020

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Bill Smith is the head chef of Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the author of the cookbook "Seasoned in the South." A few years after arriving as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969, Smith joined Marcia Wilson at the helm of Cat's Cradle when her two original partners left.

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The Bill Smith T-Shirt and Cookbook Collection, 1950s-2014, consists of Smith's collected T-shirts, chiefly of rock bands that performed at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., and community cookbooks published by churches and women's organizations located across the South.

Contents list

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1. T-shirts, 1980-2014 (Original Deposit).
2. Cookbooks, 1950s-1970s (Addition of November 2019)

Expand/collapse Series 1. T-shirts, 1980-2014 (Original Deposit).

141 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102015

Bill Smith's collection of T-shirts, chiefly of rock bands that performed at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, N.C.

Box 1	Hillbilly Frankenstein
	Neil Diamond All Stars
	King Missile
	Vote Gantt Campaign t-shirt for Harvey Gantt's U.S. Senate campaign.
	American Music Club
	Pere Ubu The Modern Dance.
	Line drawing of rectangular box with an arrow pointing out of it
	Lunachicks
	Sonic Youth
	Tomahawk Mit Gas.
	The Ghost of Rock from Sleazefest 2001
	The Melvins
	Cibo Matto
	Machines of Loving Grace
	The Donnas Get Skintight.
Box 2	Guided By Voices
	Squirrel Nut Zippers
	Paul Westerberg Stereo.
	Grover
	Billy Bragg and the Blokes England, Half English.
	Yo La Tengo
	Billy Bragg Sun, Sea, and Socialism.
	Horned lions/tigers illustration, the word cole
	Alejandro Escovedo
	Gantt '96 Campaign T-shirt for Harvey Gantt's U.S. Senate campaign 1996.
	Archers of Loaf
	Truckadelic
	Corrosion of Conformity
	Marcia Ball Hot Tamale Baby.
	The Decemberists
Box 3	"trans 003 transmit.org 14-15 july 2000"
	Yo La Tengo
	Superchunk
	The Amazing Dolores Stop Messin' With My Mind.
	Junk in the Trunk
	Yo La Tengo Popular Songs.
	Tift Merritt and The Carbines Bramble Rose.
	Yo La Tengo
	Capsize 7
	El Sucio
	Liquorice
	Miracle Legion Pio Nock Friend to Grock, June Tour 1990.
	Bigtop
	Sun City Girls
	Butter 08
Box 4	Buick MacKane The Pawn Shop Years.
	Capsize 7
	The Lemonheads Lick
	Auntie Christ
	Erectus Monotone
	The Forty-Fives
	Johnny Quest
	Bad Mutha Goose and The Brothers Grimm
	Spatula
	Tortoise
	The Pressure Boys Krandlebanum Monumentus, Bowl Like Hell! Tour.
	Shiny Beast
	The Jody Grind
	Merge Records Merge Records 10th Anniversary Celebration, 22-24 July 1999.
	Alice Donut
	Pylon
	Culture Black-and-white image of a nude women with the word "culture" in a text block.
Box 5	Superchunk Indoor Living.
	Sufjan Stevens Come on Feel the Illinoise.
	The Amps
	Buick MacKane The Pawn Shop Years.
	Camper Van Beethoven
	Crooked Fingers
	Death Cab For Cutie "We Have the Facts and We're Voting," with Democratic Party Donkey, play on the album We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
	Three Bad Jacks
	Combustible Edison
	Medeski Martin and Wood
	Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey Mavericks.
	Soul Coughing
	Miracle Legion It's Almost Christmas Tour.
	Mudhoney
Box 6	Medeski Martin and Wood
	Merge Records Merge Records 20th Anniversary Celebration, 22-26 July 2009.
	Arrogance
	Jack Black
	The Melvins Front: Fuck Melvins; back: Louder Than Soundgarden.
	Cibo Matto Stereotype A.
	The Butthole Surfers
	Calexico
	The Flat Duo Jets
	Sleazefest 1998 Sleazefest, August 1998 at the Local 506.
	Sleazefest 2000 Sleazefest, August 2000 at the Local 506.
	Archers of Loaf
	Unknown
	Half Japanese
Box 7	Southern Culture on the Skids
	Cobra Kahn
	Willard
	New Music Seminar Front: New Music Seminar, New York 1985; back: Capitol (Records).
	The Lemonheads
	The Dragstrip Syndicate
	June I Am Beautiful.
	Camper Van Beethoven Front: CVB Revolutionary Manifesto 2004
	The Dead Milkmen
	Yo La Tengo
	Neil Diamond All Stars World Tour 1998 (if your world is Chapel Hill)
	Madonnathon Featuring: Bicycle Face, Erectus Monotone, Finger, Metal Flake Mother, Polvo, Superchunk, Vanilla Trainwreck, Zen Frisbee.
	Archers of Loaf All the Nations Airports.
	Robyn Hitchcock Moss Elixir.
Box 8	Tift Merritt and The Carbines Bramble Rose.
	Combustible Edison
	Pipe
	Miracle Legion Me and Mr. Ray.
	Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
	Sleater-Kinney Show Me Your Riffs.
	The Melvins
	Mike Watt "Ring Spiel" tour 1995, with Foo Fighters and Hovercraft.
	WXYC 89.3 Alphabet shirt.
	Social Distortion
	Steel Pole Bath Tub
	Lucky Boys Confusion
	The Jesus Lizard
Box 9	Erectus Monotone
	Firehose Coilin' 'n' Toilin' Tour 1991.
	The Mekons
	The Grifters Back: Shangri-La Records
	Sugarsmack "See the 'Best' in Action"
	Pavement Stellen.
	The Friggs
	Sonic Youth
	Tift Merritt
	June
	Music Maker Relief Foundation
	The Smiths The Queen Is Dead.
Box 10	Dillon Fence
	Anti-Jesse Helms "Stop the Monster -- Defeat Helms"; illustration of Helms with sharp teeth and red words beaming from his eyes (hate, bigotry, censorship).
	WXYC 89.3 Simple design with volume knob.
	Yo La Tengo
	Dog Faced Hermans "Do the Dog."
	The Carter Family Sub-text: Sara Maybelle and A.P.
	Sex Police Front: "Flame Retardant Asbestos Suit"; back: "You Need it."
	Yo La Tengo Electropura.
	Unknown Globe with red circle and cross-through line.
	Jack Black Leopard head graphic.
	Bad Brains Quickness World Tour 1989.

Expand/collapse Series 2. Cookbooks, 1950s-1970s (Addition of November 2019)

Approximately 50 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 103750

Custodial History: Acquired from Chapel Hill Public Library

Bill Smith's collection of community cookbooks published by churches, parent teacher associations, the Junior League, YWCA, and other women's organizations infrom Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Ohio, Missouri, and Mexico.

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