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Title: Byron Baldwin photographs, 1987-2008
Creator: Baldwin, Byron, 1943-
Date Created: 1987, 2008
Description: Byron Baldwin has been making photographs since 1970. He finished his graduate work at Ohio University in 1972 and has since lived in Charlotte, NC. He was a founding member of The Light Factory in 1973 and taught photography at Myers Park High Sc...

Title: Cafes, 1988-2006
Creator: Baldwin, Byron, 1943-
Date Created: 1988, 2006
Subjects--Topical: Small business
Description: Four black and white photographs taken by Byron Baldwin of cafes located in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Title: Carmen Juárez Juárez oral history interview, September 6, 2002
Creator: Juárez Juárez, Carmen, 1958-
Date Created: 2002-09-06
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration, Immigrants--Social conditions, Latin Americans--Ethnic identity, Hispanic American families, Biculturalism, Hispanic Americans--Social life and customs, Indigenous peoples
Description: Maria del Carmen Juarez Juarez, known as "Carmen," discusses her experiences in the United States after emigrating from Irapuato, Mexico around 1987. Ms. Juarez talks about her perspective on differences between Latin American and American culture...

Title: Erin Mackie and Renée Mackie oral history interview, 1993 October 15
Creator: Mackie, Erin
Date Created: 1993-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Women basketball players, Basketball teams, Sports--Social aspects, School sports
Description: High school student Erin Mackie and her mother Renée Mackie talk about Erin's experiences as a female basketball player at Bandys High School in Catawba, North Carolina. Topics discussed include Erin's early memories of falling in love with the sp...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 12, 2008 January 16
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2008-01-16
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Illustrations, Jack tales, Mountains--Folklore, Puppet making, Storytelling
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the early 1990s. In this twelfth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley continues the conversation from her eleventh interview a...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 8, 2007 April 20
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Acrylic painting, Children's literature, Folk literature, Illustrations, Jack tales, Linoleum block-printing, Mountains--Folklore, Storytelling, Archetypes in literature, Sex role
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her career during the mid to late 1980s. In this eighth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley describes two of her publications connected with the...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 9, 2007 May 25
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Color separation, Illustrations, Linoleum block-printing, Mermaids in literature
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In this ninth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley recalls her work on A Sea Tale (1990). Ms. ...

Title: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. oral history interview 2, 2004 May 12
Creator: Taylor, Johnny C., 1968-
Date Created: 2004-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Lawyers, African Americans--Social conditions, Race discrimination, Voluntarism, African American business enterprises
Description: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. recounts his education and his career as a corporate lawyer. He speaks about discrimination in corporate America he has faced as an African American, and how he has handled it. He also discusses his volunteer work giving back ...

Title: Linda Bellamy oral history interview, 2005 October 25
Creator: Bellamy, Linda, 1952-
Date Created: 2005-10-25
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Open plan schools, Teachers, Multiculturalism
Description: Linda Bellamy talks about her career at Irwin Elementary and her work in developing the English as a second language (ESL) program in the school. Ms. Bellamy reflects on the challenges she faced in developing this program and in teaching ESL stude...

Title: Martha O'Neill oral history interview, 2005 August 12
Creator: O'Neill, Martha, 1956-
Date Created: 2005-08-12
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Drama in education, Arts in education, Musicals, School field trips, Sex instruction, Teachers
Description: Martha O'Neill shares her experiences as a drama teacher at Piedmont Open Middle School in Charlotte. She describes the characteristics of open education as it was understood and practiced within the school, including a focus on the whole child, a...