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Davie and the University's Founding

The creation of the University of North Carolina, with information on the life of its principal founder, William Richardson Davie.

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  1. Silhouette of the Campus of the University of North Carolina, ca. 1820
  2. View of Harvard College, 1828
  3. William Richardson Davie (1756-1820), miniature engraving by Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1800
  4. View of the College of New Jersey, 1764
  5. Military training manual, written by Davie and published in 1799
  6. Davie's residence in Halifax, North Carolina
  7. James Madison (1751-1836)
  8. The General Assembly met in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1789
  9. Davie laying the cornerstone of East Building, 12 October 1793, reproduced from the 1935 edition of The Yackety Yack.
  10. Old East, ca. 1797. Pen and ink sketch by John Pettigrew.
  11. Title page of sermon by McCorkle, 1793, advocating support for university.
  12. Person Hall, completed in 1797, served as the university's first chapel
  13. David Ker (1758-1805)
  14. Charles Harris (1771-1804)
  15. Joseph Caldwell (1773-1835)
  16. William R. Davie with copies of treaty and seals, nineteenth-century engraving based on original drawing done by John Vanderlyn in Paris in 1800
  17. Davie by Charles Willson Peale, 1826, based on an engraving by Gilles-Louis Chrétien, 1800

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