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Collection Number: 05616

Collection Title: Triangle Area Mushroom Club Records, 1982-2008

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)
Abstract The collection of the Triangle Area Mushroom Club contains membership lists, The Fungifile newsletters, newspaper clippings about the club, photographic images of club activities, and miscellaneous publications about mushrooms in North Carolina, including two articles by E. A. Lehman.
Creator Triangle Area Mushroom Club.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
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 Triangle Area Mushroom Club Records #5616, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from William Burk in December 2014 (Acc. 102140).
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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Processed: May 2019

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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The Triangle Area Mushroom Club was founded in 1982 by William R. Burk, then the botany librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Joan Zeller, a novice mushroomer. The objective of the club is "to promote a general knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of mushrooms, especially in the Research Triangle area....through programs covering identification, ecology, photography, mycophagy, literature, as well as field trips."

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The collection contains membership lists, The Fungifile newsletters, newspaper clippings about the club, photographic images of club activities, and miscellaneous publications about mushrooms in North Carolina, including two articles by E. A. Lehman.

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Box 1

Club records

Includes membership lists, The Fungifile newsletters, newspaper clippings about the club, photographic images of club activities, and miscellaneous publications about mushrooms in North Carolina, including two articles by E. A. Lehman.

Image Folder PF-5616/1-6

PF-5616/1

PF-5616/2

PF-5616/3

PF-5616/4

PF-5616/5

PF-5616/6

Color transparencies, 1982-1985

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