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Size | .5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100 items) |
Abstract | The collection of Isabel Plummer Bain and her husband Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915), a white educator, author, and professor at the University of North Carolina, contains a scrapbook about Charles Bain, newspaper clippings, notebooks, miscellaneous papers, and letters, including a 1917 letter to Isabel Bain from Elizabeth Blackwell describing her sudden departure from Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1862 during the American Civil War. |
Creator | Bain, Isabel Plummer.
Bain, Charles Wesley, 1864-1915. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2011
Updated: June 2019
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Isabel Plummer Bain of Petersburg, Va., married Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) of Portmouth, Va., in 1891. Charles Wesley Bain was an educator, professor of Greek and Latin at the University of North Carolina, and author in 1898 of First Latin Book. Their daughter Elizabeth Tannahill Bain (1893-1967?) lived in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Virginia Beach, Va.
Back to TopThe collection of Isabel Plummer Bain and her husband Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915), a white educator, author, and professor at the University of North Carolina, contains a scrapbook about Charles Bain, newspaper clippings, notebooks, miscellaneous papers, and letters, including a 1917 letter to Isabel Bain from Elizabeth Blackwell describing her sudden departure from Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1862 during the American Civil War.
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Letter received by Isabel Plummer Bain, 17 September 1917Blackwell, a Northerner, described her sudden departure from Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1862 during the American Civil War. |
Notebooks, circa 1900s-1940s |
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Letters and papers, circa 1910s-1940s |
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House plans, circa 1930s |
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Newspaper clippings, circa 1910s-1960s |
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Scrapbook about Charles Wesley Bain, circa 1900s-1910s |
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Miscellaneous papers |