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Collection Number: 04458

Collection Title: Herman Glenn Baity Papers, 1900s-1970s

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Size 19.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 6800 items)
Abstract Herman Glenn Baity was an internationally-known white sanitary engineer and professor of sanitary engineering at the University of North Carolina, 1926-1955. Correspondence, writings, subject files, travel diaries, photographs, film strips, and other materials documenting Herman Glenn Baity's career as an academician and international consultant, particularly in South America; his role in developing water and sewer plants throughout North Carolina; and his tenure as director of sanitary engineering for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Also included are materials relating to Baity's father, George Wesley Baity; to his wife, ethnologist Elizabeth Chesley Baity (1907- ); and to other Baity and Chesley family members.
Creator Baity, Herman Glenn, 1895-1975.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Herman Glenn Baity papers #4458, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in July 1986, June 1991, and April 2005 (Acc. 100060); 2002 (Acc. 2007004); and from Bryan Giemza in January 2007 (Acc. 100606).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Connie Cartledge, August 1986; Roslyn Holdzkom, January 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Partially unprocessed, but may be used with staff assistance. Letters in box 8 are still in envelopes.

For biographical information, see entry in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography.

Updated because of additions, January 2019

Updated because of additions, February 2020

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Herman Glenn Baity was an internationally-known white sanitary engineer and professor of sanitary engineering at the University of North Carolina, 1926-1955.

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Correspondence, writings, subject files, travel diaries, photographs, film strips, and other materials documenting Herman Glenn Baity's career as an academician and international consultant, particularly in South America; his role in developing water and sewer plants throughout North Carolina; and his tenure as director of sanitary engineering for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Also included are materials relating to Baity's father, George Wesley Baity; to his wife, ethnologist Elizabeth Chesley Baity (1907- ); and to other Baity and Chesley family members.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Additions of June 1991 (Acc. 91072 and 91075).

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Acquisitions Information: Accession 100060

Box 14

Correspondence

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Acquisitions Information: Accession 100606

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04458/1

Poster

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Acquisitions Information: Accession 2007004. Transferred from the Health Sciences Library in 2019.

Box 14

Proceedings, publications, newsclippings, photographs

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04458/2

Newsclippings, certificates

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