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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Earl N. Mitchell Photographs and Related Materials #P0097, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Donated in 2012 by Catherine P. Voorhees of Durham, N.C.

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Processed by: Patrick Cullom, March 2015

Encoded by: Patrick Cullom, March 2015

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.

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• Asheville (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Bat Cave (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Bryson City (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Bynum (N.C.)--Photographs.
• California--Photographs.
• Carrboro (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Durham (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Efland (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Emerald Isle (N.C.)--Photographs.
• France--Photographs.
• Grandfather Mountain (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Italy--Photographs.
• Linville Gorge (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain)--Photographs.
• Mount Pisgah (N.C.)--Photographs.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Photographs.
• Photography--Scientific applications.
• Photography--Technique--Amateurs' manuals.
• Photography.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--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--Photographs.
• Vineyards--California--Photographs.
• Vineyards--France--Photographs.
• Vineyards--Italy--Photographs.
• Vineyards--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Photographs.
• Wrightsville Beach (N.C.)--Photographs.

Earl N. Mitchell (1926-2011) was born in Centerville, Iowa on 30 August 1926. He received a B.A. and a M.S. in physics from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota. He was a professor of physics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1991. He is author of the photographic textbook, Photographic Science (1984), and co-taught with Ross Scroggs the course, Physics 45: Photography. He and his wife Marlys founded Mitchell Winery located outside of Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1971, and were instrumental in the founding of the North Carolina Winegrowers Association in 1993.

This collection consists of black-and-white and color 35mm slides taken by Mitchell between 1967 and 1986. Photographs were taken in a number of different locations, mainly in North Carolina, and depict people, events, landscapes, nature scenes, and buildings; many of the images in his writings and instruction of scientific photography. Many of the images were taken on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are images taken by Mitchell as he traveled to different locations across the United States and around the world. Numerous images of Mitchell's family-owned vineyard (Mitchell Vineyard) and other vineyards he traveled to in the United States, France, and Italy are included in the collection. The collection also includes Mitchell's photographic logs created by Mitchell, that extensively detail the location and specifications of almost 6000 images he took from 1967 to 1985.