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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Moyle Boone Photographic Collection #P0084, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Samuel Boone, 2002.

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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: Elizabeth Hull, 2011

Encoded by: Elizabeth Hull, 2011

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.

Individuals Appearing in Images:
• Hunter, Kermit.
• Rush, Charles E. (Charles Everett), b. 1885.
• Smith, Betty, 1896-1972.
• Wellman, Manly Wade, 1903-1986.
• Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

General Subjects:
• Academic libraries--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Photographs.
• Academic libraries--North Carolina--Employees--Photographs.
• Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)--Photographs.
• Boone, Samuel Moyle.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Photographs.
• City and town life--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Photographs.
• College campuses--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Librarians--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Nature photography--North Carolina.
• North Carolina Tar Heels (Football team)--Photographs.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Old Well (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Photographers--North Carolina.
• Photographs.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Buildings--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Campus--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Employees--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Employees.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Football--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Libraries--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Buildings--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Campus--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Employees.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Libraries--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Photographs.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Morehead-Patterson Memorial Tower--Photographs.

• Hugh Morton Photographs and Films (P0081)
• Jock Lauterer Photographic Collection (P0069)
• Louis Round Wilson Photographic Collection (P0040)
• William W. Prouty Photographic Collection (P0038)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Image Collection (P0004)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Photographic Laboratory Collection (P0031)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services Photographs (P0087)
• Records of the Library Photographic Services (#40055), University Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Samuel Moyle Boone (1919-2008), native of Gates County, N.C., and son of William Jordan and Minnie Belle Williams Boone, received his A.B. degree in 1949 and his Masters of Library Science in 1964 from the University of North Carolina. Boone served as a member of the staff of the Academic Affairs Library (now the University Library) at the University of North Carolina for 30 years. He was appointed head of Photoduplication Services in 1952, in which role he is credited with building the Library's microfilm collection. Also a photographer, Boone shot local events, portraits, campus scenes, and scenic views, and photographed for the Alumni Review during the 1950s. He spent five years on staff at Duke University's Perkins Library after his retirement from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Photographs in the Samuel Moyle Boone Photographic Collection date from approximately the late 1940s through the early 1960s and depict the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill; people (primarily staff and faculty of the University Library and other departments, also including portraits of authors Betty Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, and Kermit Hunter,and some shots of UNC football); Chapel Hill community groups and events; and scenic views, including the Blue Ridge Parkway. A significant subset of negatives document the construction of the 1952 addition to the soon-to-be-named Louis Round Wilson Library.

The Boone photographs consist primarily of black-and-white negatives, as well as a small number of black-and-white prints and color sheet film transparencies.

The physical organization of the collection is as follows:

• Black-and-white Film Box 1: Negatives, P0084/0001 through 0070
• Black-and-white Film Box 2: Negatives, P0084/0071 through 0124
• Black-and-white Film Box 3: Negatives, P0084/0125 through 0162
• Color Film Box 1: Sheet film transparencies, P0084/0163 through 0164
• Print Box 1: Black-and-white prints, P0084/0165 through 0166