Restrictions to Access

The photographic album in this collection is fragile due to its age and the materials used in the album. There are no original negatives for any of the images in the Johnson Collection. Researchers may be presented with a digital copy instead of original materials if the Photographic Archivist has determined an original should not be handled.

Restrictions to Use

No image in this collection may be reproduced without the permission and consent of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Elmer D. Johnson Photographic Collection (P0020), year image was made [when known], North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

Acquisitions Information

The photographs were a gift in 1990 from Elmer Douglas Johnson, an alumnus of the University of North Carolina. He received the photographs from an unidentified fellow student who was leaving UNC in 1942 to serve in World War II. (Accession no. 30423.)

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.

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.

• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Library buildings--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Buildings--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Photographs.

• North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives (P059), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
• Roland Giduz Collection (P033), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
• Thomas Wolfe Photograph Collection (P048), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Photographic Laboratory Collection (P031), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
• United States Navy Pre-flight School Collection (P027), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States Navy ROTC Collection (P054), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives

Elmer D. Johnson of Durham, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., receiving a BA (1936), MA (1942), and PhD (1951) all in history.

Collection contains 27 black-and-white photographic prints depicting buildings and grounds at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the early 1940s. Fifteen of the images are contained in a small leather covered album; the other 12 are stored in polyethylene sheets.There are a few individuals included in the images, but only one is identified. Included are images of the Louis Round Wilson Library (exterior and interior), the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower, South Building, Emerson Playing Field, and student Paul Hayes Etheridge Jr. in his dorm room in Pettigrew Hall.