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Construction of addition to Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina, 14 March 1950; P0085_0036_0001, in the Samuel Moyle Boone Photographic Collection (P0084), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items) |
Abstract | The collection of white librarian and photographer Samuel Moyle Boone (1919-2008) contains black-and-white photographic negatives and prints and color sheet film transparencies. The images from the late 1940s to the 1960s depict the University of North Carolina campus; faculty and staff; authors Betty Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, and Kermit Hunter; campus sports including football; local events; and scenic views of the Blue Ridge Parkway. A significant subset of negatives documents the construction of the 1952 addition to UNC’s Louis Round Wilson Library. |
Creator | Boone, Samuel Moyle. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives. |
Language | English |
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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.
Back to TopPhotographs 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:
Arrangement: Alphabetical, with general and unidentified campus views at end.
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Arrangement: Alphabetical by last name.
Black and White Film Box
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Black and White Sheet Film P0084/0136 |
Men, unidentified, 14 March 1954 #P0084, Subseries: "2.3. People and Events, Unidentified, circa late 1940s-early 1960s." Bwfilmbox 3, Bwsheetfilm P0084/01361 image |
Black and White Film Box
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Black and White Sheet Film P0084/0137 |
"Unknown" (meeting, unidentified, copy negative), circa late 1940s-early 1960s #P0084, Subseries: "2.3. People and Events, Unidentified, circa late 1940s-early 1960s." Bwfilmbox 3, Bwsheetfilm P0084/01371 image |
Black and White Film Box
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Black and White Sheet Film P0084/0138 |
People, unidentified, various, circa late 1940s-early 1950s #P0084, Subseries: "2.3. People and Events, Unidentified, circa late 1940s-early 1960s." Bwfilmbox 3, Bwsheetfilm P0084/01383 images |
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
Processed by: Elizabeth Hull, 2011
Encoded by: Elizabeth Hull, 2011
Edited by: Rebecca Stubbs, July 2019
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