Restrictions to Access

Some of the materials in this collection are quite fragile. There are no original negatives for any of the images in the Stepney 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

For copyright and use restrictions contact the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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 Alfred Eric Stepney Photographic Collection #P0067, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Lynn and Tucker Respess, Charlottesville, Va., in December 2000; accession no. 31027.

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, 1997

Encoded by: Tracy M. Jackson, July 2011

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--Photographs.
• African American soldiers--United States--Photographs.
• African Americans--New York--Photographs.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Fort Bragg (N.C.)--History.
• Fort Bragg (N.C.)--Photographs.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Photographs.
• Soldiers--United States--Photographs.
• Stepney, Alfred Eric.
• World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American.
• World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American.

• Elmer D. Johnson Collection (P0020), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• United States Navy Pre-Flight School (University of North Carolina) Photographic Collection (P0027), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alfred Eric Stepney was an African American enlisted soldier in the United States Army stationed at Fort Bragg in 1942. He was from White Plains, N.Y.

The collection consists of a photographic album and several loose black-and-white prints. The album is titled "Service Album, Fort Bragg, N.C." and contains 61 black-and-white photographs, some of which are torn. Some images appear to be missing. Also included are five loose black-and-white photographic prints and a Fort Bragg "Pass Card" for E.A. Stepney, undated.

Many of the photographs appear to have been taken outside the barracks at Fort Bragg in 1941 or 1942. Most include African Americans. Other prints, some apparently from an earlier date, include family and friends in unknown locations. Many of the prints have notes identifying the images.