Anna J. Reardon Papers
Content Description
This collection consists of various personal papers relating to Anna J. Reardon, a physics instructor and head of the physics department at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNC Greensboro). It includes course materials for aviation, photography, and various physics classes. Also included are film negatives, a handbook of chemistry and physics, a Mamiya C3 camera, and photography materials and equipment.
Dates
- 1944-1974, and undated
Creator
- Reardon, Anna J. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Anna Joyce Reardon (1910-2003) began her career at Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG) as an instructor in the Department of Physics in 1941. She served as department head from 1942-65 and retired in 1975. Reardon taught various physics courses, an aviation course, and photography courses.
Extent
1.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
One box containing various personal papers relating to Anna J. Reardon.
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- Title
- Anna J. Reardon Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Suzanne Sawyer
- Date
- June 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository