early student group

The University in Crisis: The Great Depression and World War II

Effects of the Great Depression and World War II on the university including severe budget cuts, consolidation of the state’s public universities, military training on campus, and the G.I. Bill.

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  1. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972)
  2. Jesse Kenan Wise (1870-1968)
  3. Renovation of Person Hall, 1934
  4. O. Max Gardner (1882-1947)
  5. The consolidated university
  6. Naval ROTC Drum and Bugle corps
  7. Exercises in Kenan Stadium, Navy Pre-Flight School
  8. Navy Pre-Flight Cadets
  9. Female Graduate Students, 1945
  10. Billboard of the Good Health Plan
  11. Afternoon dance, 1942
  12. Hazel Katherine Hill, Editor of the Daily Tar Heel, 1943-1944
  13. Women and the War Effort
  14. B-1 Band
  15. The Cloudbusters, band of U.S. Navy Pre-Flight school, Chapel Hill, 1942-1944
  16. B-1 Band Outreach Programs
  17. Registration line, 1946
  18. Carolina student with his family, living in a trailer, 1946
  19. Victory Village
  20. Interior of Quonset Hut

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