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Collection Number: 4889

Collection Title: John C. Marlow Collection of Oral History, 1950s-1996

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Size 18 items
Abstract The collection contains audio cassettes of interviews conducted in 1996 by John C. Marlow, then a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Professor Leon Fink's history class. The interviews are with an Intracoastal Waterway lamplighter at a United States Coast Guard station on the South Carolina coastline and with drywall contractors in Lumberton, Pembroke, and Rowland, N.C. Other items are a newspaper clipping about lamplighter Boyd Marlow, a 1954 Coast Guard memorandum, a 1952 printed item titled Light List Intracoastal Waterway of the United States , and two log books for lamplighters covering the years 1951 to 1955. Acquired as Part of the Southern Historical Collction.
Creator Marlow, John C.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection is 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.
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 John C. Marlow Collection of Oral History #4889, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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This summary description was created in September 2017 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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