
{"id":27962,"date":"2012-09-20T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27962"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:58:28","slug":"aerial-view-chapel-hill-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/09\/20\/aerial-view-chapel-hill-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerial view, Chapel Hill 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/09\/20\/aerial-view-chapel-hill-1939\/1kwords092012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1kwords092012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1kwords092012\" width=\"600\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1kwords092012.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1kwords092012-113x89.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1kwords092012-142x113.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1kwords092012-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1kwords092012-360x286.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pioneering woman photographer, Bayard Wootten, took to the air to make this stunning bird\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-eye view of the campus in 1939. Brought to my attention by 88-year-old William Huskey of McCauley Street, the photograph is the cover shot from a delightful little photo pamphlet titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ways and Byways of Chapel Hill,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d featuring 16 of Wootten\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slices of life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photographs around the communities. Of this aerial photograph, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help imagining the redoubtable Wootten leaning out of an open cockpit biplane as it zoomed low and banked at a precipitous angle so she could get this shot of the campus \u00e2\u20ac\u201d probably using some form of the classic two-fisted Speed Graphic 4&#215;5 press camera. To orient yourself: that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cameron Ave. running diagonally top to bottom and the Carolina Inn roughly in the center of the photograph. Notice also the smokestacks of the old power plant behind present-day Phillips Hall. Thanks to Mr. Huskey (and the good folks at Wilson Library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s N.C. Collection), we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be featuring more of Wootten\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work this fall. What a woman. What a photographer!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pioneering woman photographer, Bayard Wootten, took to the air to make this stunning bird\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-eye view of the campus in 1939. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27981,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27962\/revisions\/27981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}