CHARLES ANDERSON FARRELL PAPERS, #4452, 1894-1977
Correspondence, literary manuscripts, clippings, and other materials documenting the career
of Farrell, a Greensboro, North Carolina, photographer who contributed photographs for
several University of North Carolina Press books. The majority of the material relates to
Stella Gentry Sharpe's Tobe (1939), a book describing the life of a
young black child and his family in the 1930s.
Tobe was considered revolutionary literature as it depicted black characters favorably. The
collection includes public reactions from blacks and whites toward the book.
