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Finding Photographs at Wilson Special Collections Library: Where to Start Looking
Where To Start Looking
The North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives is the largest repository of images within Wilson Library. We would recommend starting your search here if you are unsure what collection the material you are looking for might be in.
Rhododendron on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, June 1965, in the Frank Clodfelter Photographic Collection #P0032, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Digital North Carolina Collection Photographic ArchivesThe North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives (NCCPA) has developed a digitization program specifically designed to provide researchers access to NCCPA materials that have been digitized in recent months and years. This new feature is now available with finding aids for selected collections in the NCCPA. This link allows you to search for all digitized collections in the collection.
- North Carolina Civil War Image PortfolioContains links towards our image holdings regarding the Civil War. Most of the images owned by the Collection, regardless of format, are from a northern perspective and provide limited insight into life within the Confederacy.
- Online CatalogA link to the online catalog already set to point you towards photographic materials in Wilson library.
- Photographic Collections DescriptionsA catalog of our photographic collections and description of their contents