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 authors of materials in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Lamar Stringfield Photographic Collection #P0076, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Materials donated by the Stringfield Estate in 1962.

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 and Kait Dorsky, 2013

Encoded by: Kait Dorsky, 2013

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.

• Asheville (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Composers--North Carolina.
• Composers--Photographs.
• Composers--United States.
• Conductors (Music)--North Carolina.
• Conductors (Music)--Photographs.
• Conductors (Music)--United States.
• Families--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Musicians--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Musicians--Photographs.
• Musicians--United States.
• Photographs.
• Stringfield, Lamar.

• Lamar Stringfield Papers (#3522) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lamar Stringfield was born in 1898 and began studying flute in Asheville, N.C. After a year, he continued his study in New York City under George Barrere, Percy Goetschius, Franklin Robinson, and George Wedge. Stringfield also studied composition in Paris, France, with Nadia Boulanger in 1928 before returning to New York City to conduct and perform with music ensembles and symphony orchestras until 1930. In 1928, Stringfield won the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for his composition From the Southern Mountains.. He returned to North Carolina, organizing and directing the North Carolina Symphony, 1932-1935, followed by serving as associate conductor at Radio City Music Hall in New York, N.Y., 1938-1939. Stringfield lectured on American folk music at Juilliard Summer School in New York City, 1939-1941, and taught composition and orchestration at Claremont College in the summer of 1942. After serving as musical director of the Knoxville Symphony in Tennessee, 1946-1947, Stringfield once again returned to North Carolina, conducting the Symphonette of Charlotte and acting as musical director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, 1948-1949. He died in 1959.

The collection consists primarily of images of Lamar Stringfield, including some of Stringfield conducting. Also included are images of Stringfield's family and friends; Asheville, N.C.; nature scenes; and events.