Restrictions to Access

The tintype image in this collection is extremely fragile due to age, the materials used to make it, and the fact that it is a unique original. Tintypes have no equivalent of a negative and cannot be physically reproduced. Researchers may be presented with a digital copy instead of original material.

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 Allen, Booth, and Snipes Family Photograph Collection #05758, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Chapel Hill Historical Society, in October of 2017 (Acc. 103154)

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.

Processed by: Patrick Cullom, February 2018

Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, February 2018

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• African American families--North Carolina--Photographs.
• African American families--North Carolina.
• African Americans--Social life and customs--20th century--Photographs.
• African Americans--Social life and customs--20th century.
• Allen family.
• Booth family.
• Slavery--United States--History--19th century--Photographs.
• Snipes family.
• Tintype.

• Portrait Collection (#P0002)
• Kemp Plummer Battle Photograph Album of the University of North Carolina (#P0100): Benjamin Booth's image appears in an 1894 photograph album depicting people and places at UNC. The album was made for the former president of the University of North Carolina, Kemp Plummer Battle (1876-1891). Booth is one of three Black individuals depicted in the album.

Images depicting African American members of the Allen, Booth, and Snipes families of Chapel Hill, N.C. All three families have ties to the University of North Carolina. Included are images of Benjamin Booth and Easter Snipes, both of whom worked for the University during the later third of the nineteenth century. Some of the individuals depicted were likely enslaved by the University of North Carolina during their lives.