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[Identification of item], in the Creighton Lee Calhoun Papers on Southern Apples #05780, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Creighton Lee Calhoun in August 2018 (Acc. 103397) and September 2019 (Acc. 103718).

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• Apples--Photographs.
• Apples--Southern States.
• Calhoun, Creighton Lee, Jr., 1934-

Creighton Lee Calhoun (1934-2020) was a white retired Army lieutenant colonel who lived in Chatham County, N.C., near the Haw River, until his death in February 2020. He spent over thirty years collecting heirloom southern apple varieties in the hope of sustaining them. Along with his wife, Edith Calhoun, he authored the definitive history of southern apple varieties, Old Southern Apples: A Comprehensive History and Description of Varieties for Collectors, Growers, and Fruit Enthusiasts , offering both their human and natural history. Calhoun also helped establish the Horne Creek Living Farm.

The Creighton Lee Calhoun Papers on Southern Apples consist of notebook binders of images of apples, Calhoun's correspondence with apple cultivators in the South, his annotated research files documenting southern apple varieties and their origins, and newspaper clippings about apple varieties and his apple research. Also included are several visual catalogs used by traveling nursery vendors that illustrate apples.

• Photograph albums (PA-05780/1-7)