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Charlie's Books Photographs of North Carolina Writers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-343
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter and 29 photographs, 7 of which are signed, of North Carolina writers from Charlie's Books, a bookstore in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Photographs were taken in the store. The photographs that are dated range from 1989 to 1998, while dates of some of the photographs are unknown. The letter depicts correspondence between April Andrews and an author asking for a photograph and signature for the book store.
Dates:
1980s-1990s, unknown
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Patricia O'Meara Robbins and Carroll Robbins Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-341
Scope and Contents
This collection features the photography of Patricia O'Meara Robbins and the family research her daughter, Carroll Robbins Jones, compiled with her husband, Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., to write their book about Patricia's life and career--"She 'Shot' Her Way to Success: How China's Empress Dowager Ci Xi Launched a Photographer's Trailblazing Career," published in 2016. Some of the photographs were also featured in a 2001 book the Jones' wrote, "Hawaii Goes to War: The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor,"...
Dates:
circa 1870-2013; Majority of material found in 1933-1959
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
The Black Poet Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-094
Scope and Contents
The Black Poet was the 1865 annouced title of a work to be published that was to contain "a concise history of the life" of George Moses Horton, bard and recently freed enslaved individual. Richard Walser used the 1865 title for his 1996 work on Horton, since no evidence exists that the 1865 book was ever written. Walser wrote his "concise history" during part of a year he spent on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Claude Howell created the drawings for the book. This collection contains the...
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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- African American men -- Poetry 1
- African Americans -- North Carolina -- Wilmington -- History 1
- China (nation) 1
- Communism 1
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- Families -- North Carolina -- New Hanover County 1
- Manuscripts 1
- North Carolina--History, local 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 1
- Photography 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- History -- Sources 1
- correspondence 1
- documentary photography 1
- military photography 1
- war photography 1 ∧ less
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- Danish 1
- French 1
- German 1
- Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
- Russian 1
- Names
- Horton, George Moses, 1798?-approximately 1880 1
- Howell, Claude, 1915-1997 1
- Jones, Carroll Robbins, 1934-2013 1
- Jones, Wilbur D., 1934- 1
- O'Meara Robbins, Mary Patricia, 1911-1988 1
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