Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

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 the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lillian Alexander Burch Collection #P0026, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

The source of this collection is undocumented.

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: North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, 1998

Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, 2010

Edited by: Rebecca Stubbs, July 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine 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 and racial 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 identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@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.

• Arizona--Photographs.
• Arkansas--Photographs.
• Burch, Lillian Alexander.
• California--Photographs.
• Chase, Charlie, 1893-1940.
• Colorado--Photographs.
• Hardy, Oliver, 1892-1957.
• Idaho--Photographs.
• Illinois--Photographs.
• Indiana--Photographs.
• Kansas--Photographs.
• Kentucky--Photographs.
• Missouri--Photographs.
• Nevada--Photographs.
• New Mexico--Photographs.
• Photographs.
• Tennessee--Photographs.
• Texas--Photographs.
• Travel photography.
• United States--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--20th century.
• Utah--Photographs.
• Wyoming--Photographs.

In the summer of 1930, Lillian Alexander Burch was a student who participated in a study tour to the west coast of the United States sponsored by the Extension Division of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., 7 June-2 August 1930. Burch made the photographs in this collection and collected postcards as the tour moved across the country.

The Lillian Alexander Burch collection contains 154 prints and postcards created or collected by Lillian Alexander Burch on her 1930 study trip. The images show popular tourist sites as well as views of tour participants. The group camped for part of the trip and some of the photographs include camp scenes. Photographs made at the Hal Roach Studio in California include Oliver Hardy and Charley Chase. Most of the images are mounted in an album with captions that was put together by Burch. The collection also includes a small number of papers related to the trip.