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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Phil Blank Journals #20475, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Phil Blank of Carrboro, N.C., in 2012 (Acc. 101648).

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Encoded by: Virginia Ferris, November 2013

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• Asheville (N.C.)--Pictorial works.
• Blank, Phil.
• Blues (Music)--Pictorial works.
• Carrboro (N.C.)--Pictorial works.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Pictorial.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Food habits--Southern States--Pictorial works.
• Klezmer music--Pictorial works.
• Landscapes--Southern States--Pictorial works.
• Longport (N.J.)--Pictorial works.
• Natchez (Miss.)--Pictorial works.
• Occupy movement--North Carolina--Chapel Hill--Pictorial works.
• Oxford (Miss.)--Pictorial works.
• Paris (France)--Pictorial works.
• Southern States--Pictorial works.
• Turin (Italy)--Pictorial works.

Phil Blank is an artist, musician, and librarian formerly based in Carrboro, N.C. As of 2019, he and his family reside in Philadelphia, Pa. His work has been featured in art galleries local to the Chapel Hill, N.C., area, and in the Carrboro Citizen newspaper. Blank also plays accordion, tenor banjo, and tsimbl in a klezmer music group Gmish.

The collection consists of four journals featuring writings, drawings, and paintings by Phil Blank. Journals contain personal reflections and portraits of people, places, and events, with particular attention to domestic life and southern food, landscapes, and music, including blues and klezmer musicians. The journals depict Chapel Hill, N.C., and Carrboro, N.C., as well as Asheville, N.C., Natchez, Miss., Longport, N.J., Paris, France, and Turin, Italy, among other locations. Also of note are images of the 2011 Southern Foodways Alliance meeting in Oxford, Miss., and the 2011 Occupy Chapel Hill protest.