Title	[Post office boxes]
Date	1959-09
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Topics	Spencer Residence Hall
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This 1959 photograph shows the post boxes inside the North Spencer Residence Hall. The back of photo reads "Example of locked mail boxes (in dormitories). Mail no longer distributed in Central Post Office after these were installed in dorms." Prior to 1910, mail was distributed through the dormitories. In 1910, a lock-box Post Office was installed in the basement of Administration Building. In 1932, in a general reorganization of the campus after the library fire of September, 1932, the Post Office moved to the Students’ Building until it was razed in 1949. In 1949, the Post Office was located in the basement of South Spencer Residence Hall until it moved to the Elliott Student Union in 1953. For a time, mail was distributed through locked boxes in the dormitories, but after the Dining Halls were renovated in1987/1988, post office boxes were added to the Atrium, which remains the main point of distribution.
Type	Image
Original format	Photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	UA104 Photographic Prints Collection
Series/grouping	3: Buildings, Grounds, and Views
Folder	302: Spencer Residence Hall (North) - Post Office
Folder description	The Spencer Residence Hall, designed by W. C. Holleyman of Greensboro, North Carolina, consists of two connecting building; North Spencer Residence Hall, which opened in 1904, and South Spencer Residence Hall, which opened in 1907. The building was named in honor of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a poet, social historian, and journalist. She was instrumental in having the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reopened after Reconstruction. In 1949 until 1953, the campus post office was located in the basement of South Spencer Residence Hall.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	ua104.3.302.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	872132015

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