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[Identification of item], Cedric N. Chatterley Photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Cedric N. Chatterley Photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2008 and 2009.
Processed by Tanner Capps, Kenneth Dasher, Kathryn Terrell, October 2009
Encoded by Tanner Capps, Kenneth Dasher, Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, Kathryn Terrell, October 2009
Accessions 2008-0008, 2008-0153, 2008-0167, 2008-0240, 2009-0143, 2009-0218, and 2009-0228 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
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The photographs of Cedric N. Chatterley span the years 1983-2008, and follow his career as a documentary photographer. The photographs are primarily gelatin silver black and white prints ranging in size from 8x10 to 18x24 inches. Although Chatterley's areas of interest are broad, the most prominent themes in his work are community, labor, and religious expression. The collection is comprised of eight photographic works series titled thematically: Career Retrospective, with nine sub-series including Social Events, Religious Iconography, Labor, Southern Landscapes, Travel, Family, Maine Folklife, TROSA, and Downeast North Carolina; Holy Land, USA, an abandoned religious theme park in Connecticut; MFA Thesis, consisting of the body of work for Chatterley's Fine Arts thesis,
A final series entitled Other Materials consists of publication materials relating to
The bulk of the collection is comprised of the series Penobscot Poultry and David "Honeyboy" Edwards, and Spencer, South Dakota. Series are arranged in rough chronological order; prints are in original order as received.
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
Consists of nine sub-series spanning Chatterley's career as a documentary photographer:
Thirty-nine 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints depicting social events at various locations around the United States.
Ten 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints depicting religious imagery found across the United States.
Thirty-two 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints depicting work at various locations around the United States.
Six 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints of scenes from across the American South and Midwest.
One folder containing 22 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints depicting Chatterley's travels in Mexico, England, Ireland, and Italy.
Nine 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints depicting members of Chatterley's family, including two self-portraits.
Three 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints depicting basket-making in Maine.
One 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver print. See also the main series in this collection entitled Triangle Residence Options for Substance Abusers.
Five 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints of images taken by Chatterley during the summer of 1994 in Halifax County, North Carolina.
Consists of 50 8x10 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints and one larger laminated color placemat. Built in 1958, Holy Land USA was a religious roadside attraction in Waterbury, Connecticut. The images document the condition of the park, which closed in 1984 after 26 years of operation. Original captions taken from back of prints. Many of the images were printed in 2001. Prints are in original order as received.
Consists of three 11x14 and 40 18x24 gelatin silver prints for Chatterley's Master of Fine Arts thesis at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, entitled
Consists of 91 11x14 and ten 16x20 gelatin silver prints. On February 24, 1988, Penobscot Poultry in Belfast, Maine closed down. Chatterley documented the final days of the last chicken processing plant in the state and followed former employee Linda Lord as she sought new employment afterwards. The plant became the subject of the book,
Consists of 107 11x14 selenium-toned gelatin silver prints documenting Mississippi Delta blues guitarist David "Honeyboy" Edwards. Images were taken between 1990 and 1996 and typically feature Honeyboy and the places he visited while touring the southern and midwestern United States. In some shots, fellow blues musicians appear with Honeyboy in concerts and recording sessions. Original captions with Chatterley's contextual side comments were taken from back of prints. Arranged chronologically.
Images depict the nearly total destruction of Spencer, McCook County, South Dakota by a tornado on May 30, 1998, as well as the following reconstruction of the town, and the tenth anniversary of the tornado. Chatterly is a resident of South Dakota. Original captions taken from back of prints. Prints arranged in original order as received, with some gaps in numbering present.
This is one of the very first photographs I made when I arrived a half a mile north of Spencer on May 31, 1998. People were gethering on the corner of South Dakota Highway 38 and County Road 431. A state police barricade would stop many people from entering, including residents. I entered easier than most with my Press Pass. Governor Bill Janklow was there giving the "go ahead" to anybody wanting to board the bus.
F-4 tornado hit the town around 8:30 pm, May 30, 1998.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
A kid on a four-wheeler wanted to show Chatterley where a circular saw blade had stuck itself into a tree. This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
Cliff had lived in this house for six months and had considered buying it from the Webbs. The mud on the walls of the house was caused by the water tower falling to the ground during the tornado.
Among those present are Governor Bill Janklow, Senator Tom Daschle, Senator Tim Johnson, FEMA Director James Lee Witt, and Vice President Al Gore.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
Governor Bill Janklow asked for 500 volunteers through media outlets just days prior to this event. A F-4 tornado came through Spencer around 8:30 on May 30, 1998, destroying nearly 75% of a town with 325 people. Only six people were killed.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
It was snowing and the windchill was around 25 degrees below zero.
I rented this studio space from August 1997 to March 2007. This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
Danny is the main canvas sewing employee at Spencer Canvas in Mitchell, South Dakota. He designed and made all the awning for his house.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
This was the day (ironically) that we rounded up the last of the cattle on Webb's farm, putting an end to three generations of having cattle on this land. The dead calf was close by and the mother cow was nearly dead at the time of this shooting. It was 15 degrees and windy.
This print was made from three negatives printed consecutively.
Her calf is twelve feet away (left). Complications arose the night before while giving birth in the north pasture. Ironically, this was the day Lloyd and I rounded up the remaining cattle for market, leaving the Webb's land free of beef -- only about twenty horses remained. Valentine's Day, February 14, 2000. McCook County, South Dakota.
They were among the 25 or 30 that remained on Lloyd and Nancy Webb's farm, thus ending the bovine legacy that began with her father. Nancy refused to help because she was too emotional about this event.
Lloyd will buy a 1952 Chevy later in the year. He had a 1953 Chevy heavily damaged in the tornado and regrettably let Bernie Opland crush it and haul it off.
This was pertaining to his contractor abandoning the Stone's home construction in Spencer and leaving them $35,000 in debt. A court settlement was finally reached but the Stones filed for bankruptcy a few years later.
This building had once been the Golden Pheasant Restaurant and it was connected to several motor lodges. Dave bought their home in Spencer around 1990.
Richard had been living with friends or relatives and coming and ging from Spencer. He is now 17 and thinking of leaving school.
One box was for him and Nancy and the other was for their daughter Jenna. The mail carrier could not come down this road unless there was more than one mailbox, although Jenna only lived part-time at the farm.
This had been the location of St. Mary's Catholic Church, which was destroyed by the May 30 tornado.
Bridgette looks on. They are in the north pasture about 1/4 mile from their farmhouse. Nancy's grandfather homesteaded this acreage.
The church was rebuilt during the years that followed the tornado. The woman in the right image is holding an Argus Leader newsprint, published the day after the May 30 tornado.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
The youth minister at this church would let kids come and go and Richard was basically a runaway at this time.
Richard has returned home after being away for several weeks living on the streets and staying with friends in Mitchell, South Dakota.
Jessica is nearly 9 months pregnant with her first born Kaitlyn Ann.
This is directly in front of the closed motor lodge rooms on the commercial property they are making into a home. Dave is planning to start a herb and vegetable business called "Asphalt Gardens."
There were several birthdays in the Webb/Tilotson clan celebrated that day (Suzy, Jenna, and Myrta).
Steve is Nancy Webb's brother.
Steve is Nancy Webb's brother and the boyfriend of Maggie, Tim's mother.
Nixon got his name because he was born in a milkhouse. At first, he was called Milkhouse, which quickly turned to Millhouse, which quickly turned into Richard Nixon. I ran over Richard Nixon when the dog came running out to greet me at Lloyd's birthday party in late March 1999. Lloyd and I took him to the vet in Salem, got him fixed up and returned to the farm to finish the party. They made a pen in the house to keep Richard Nixon from running.
The gift was for Myrta, Nancy's sister. Mama cat is in the bottom center.
He is staying part-time with his cousin in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Richard is currently living with his aunt, Danny's sister, in Baltic, South Dakota.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
The hogsed planter belonged to Dave and Mary Twedt. Ironically, this was before I met them. Weeks later, after meeting them, I went with them to McCook Central High School to retrieve items. They gave me the planter and I ended up giving it to my sister, Jolea.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
Inmates from the South Dakota Department of Corrections were bussed out there every day to help with the clean-up.
The chruch was destroyed by a tornado on May 30, 1998. This was the last service before a complete razing took place, preparing the way for a new chapel to be built. South Dakota Department of Corrections inmates gather. They had been instrumental in helping clean up efforts from the very beginning a week earlier.
He and his wife were not home at the time. Their house was built in the 1980s.
(Henry operating equipment nearby did not allow me to hear the timer on my camera, thus causing the awkward moment.)
Nancy was the only person I knew who stood and witnessed their home being razed. I introduced myself shortly after making this image.
Donated items streamed in for days following the May 30, 1998 tornado. Most of the items were not taken.
The pile of rubble in the distance is one of two such heaps, increasing by the day. Near the end of June, both piles will be set on fire.
His truck was loaded with cars he had crushed after the Spencer tornado.
Opland and I were leaving the crushed cars at a recycling yard in Sioux City, Iowa. Bernie lived near Baltic, South Dakota.
Bernie crushed these cars in Spencer following the May 30, 1998 tornado. This load was one of several loads.
The dog is fake.
The books on the left were being sold by Salvation Army Volunteers. The display board on the right listed all the families and home sites affected by the May 30th tornado. Urban planners from Sioux Falls had suggested that those who rebuild in Spencer try and do so by possibly trading their property and building closer together. Believing that not everybody in Spencer would rebuild, they wanted to avoid large gaps between homes. The idea was roundly rejected by those who planned to stay.
This was the very last image I made with the original Ilford HP5 from the 100 foot bulk rolls.
The six brothers and sisters are in reference to the six deaths during the tornado in Spencer on May 30, 1998.
I would park at the corner of South Dakota Highway 38 and County Rd 431 and work or hitchhike into Spencer during the first 10 days or so following the May 30th tornado. I did not know at the time that Dave and Mary Twedt owned this property, having only met them briefly a few days after the tornado destroyed their home in Spencer. The driver is an unidentified Spencer resident with a truckload of furniture salvaged during the thunderstorm.
Inmates will launder and fold the clothing and it will be offered to Spencer residents in July.
This was the West pit.
The pile was at the southeast edge of town and made from the top of the grain elevator.
This image was made with a telephoto lens.
Donated items streamed in for days following the F-4 tornado that hit Spencer 10 miles west. Most items were not used and they were eventually sent to various organizations like the Slavation Army.
After having their home in Spencer destroyed by a F-4 tornado, they have decided to rebuild their commercial property into a home 1/2 mile south of town. This was once the Golden Pheasant Restaurant and Lounge. Legend has it that an artist traveling through sometime in the 1950s painted the scenic mural on the wall in exchange for several days stay in the adjoining motel. I tried to talk Dave into letting the mural remain in what would become their living room. Consideration was given but the mural fell to the Twedts' hammers the following week. Over the month of July, the Twedts and I filled several dumpster loads in the gutting process of this property.
Dave is watchful of gathering storm clouds.
The Twedts and I used to take a daily cruise through town as a way to take a break from working on their home. Dave called these little rides into town as "dress codes" or "inspecting the dress code" out of a tongue-in-cheek poke at the recent building code enforcements that followed the tornado. Dave was very vocal about the local politics.
They had been cruising around Spencer one day in mid-July and saw it laying near the monument that had been placed to remember the Spencer School.
The Twedts are rebuilding what once was the Golden Pheasant Restaurant and Lounge. Dave bought this property less than one mile south of Spencer in 1986, several years before they bought a home in Spencer Proper.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
The Twedts and I were on our way to burn trash at the end of the property. Mary is looking north towards Spencer.
5 days after a F-4 tornado destroyed 75% of the town organized volunteers then cleaned recovered items and set them on tables in the McCook County High School gym. The clothes that had been recovered were taken to the Springfield State Prison near Yankton where they were laundered in 200 pound capacity machines. Other items were cleaned and sorted by local organizations. I saw several people, including Dave and Mary, pick up and examine items that had been theirs prior to the tornado, then return them to the table. Dave said, "Some things are better left alone..." Upon walking into the gym for the first time, Nancy Webb said, "This is worse than the tornado." Many folks stood over the tables that had been covered with photographs from a period of at least 100 years and wept openly. It was the most powerful photo exhibit I had ever witnessed.
Mary is wrapped in a quilt made by her grandmother. The Twedts and I were in the McCook Central High School gym where all the items recovered after the tornado by volunteers had been set out. There were 7-8 tables of nothing but photographs. The quilt and these photographs were among the many items that filled the gymnasium.
Clothing and objects that had been picked up by volunteers after the tornado were stacked on tables for Spencer residents. Over 5,000 volunteers combed Spencer on June 5, filling plastic bags with clothing, kitchen appliances, utensils, and many personal items. More than 7 tables were completely covered with carefully cleaned photographs. Mary is holding a quilt made by her grandmother.
There were 7 tables of photographs laid edge to edge.
This print was made from two negatives printed consecutively.
The Twedts had been without running water for 45 days following the tornado. The Twedts are now rebuilding commercial property into a home. The property was once the Golden Pheasant Restaurant and Lounge with several hotel rooms. Dave Twedt bought this property in 1986, several years before they bought their home in Spencer about 1/2 mile to the north. The Twedts and I filled the dumpster (right) more than 3 times with material during the "gutting" process. The Twedts lived in the camper trailer for 6 months while working on their home.
Kallie's father, Ed Rogers, dressed in white. Delphia's new home was built by South Dakota State Penitentiary inmates on site at the Springfield prison yard near Yankton. The interior is 768 sq ft, two bedrooms, one bath. Applicants must be 62 or older, or 18 with disability. The cost was $19,400, including delivery. Five of these homes were purchased in 1998/99 by families displaced by the tornado, three of which were placed in Spencer. Although Kallie and her parents moved to Michigan, Delphia said later, "Kallie is fifth generation Spencer."
The Webb's house in Spencer proper was destroyed after receiving heavy tornado damage on May 30, 1998. They decided to use the insurance money to rebuild the farmhouse.
Selenium toned gelatin silver print--two negatives printed consecutively.
McCook County, South Dakota--three miles north of Spencer.
They bought the wagon and later towed it home. I followed. The steel wheels made a wonderful noise rolling on the asphalt.
She and Dave passing the vacant lot where their house had been just a few months earlier in Spencer, South Dakota.
They are rebuilding commercial property to make their home about 1/2 mile south of Spencer, South Dakota. (Their home in Spencer was destroyed 5-30-98). This property was once "The Golden Pheasant", a restaurant/bar connected to several small hotel rooms.
She let him and Kara and Brandon (4 mo.) stay in the mobile home in Salem, South Dakota, while the Stones had their new home begin construction in Spencer.
Danny was the main canvas worker at Spencer Canvas in Mitchell.
Officiating is the Reverend Ward Satterly of Spencer, South Dakota. He lost his wife in the May 30th tornado. She ran upstairs to try and save their dog as the tornado approached. The dog survived, but she perished... Kara's twin sister, Sara, pictured at right (Maid of honor).
He was only one month old when the tornado hit. His mother, Kara Arends, hovered over him in the basement and looked up to see the house beginning to life off the foundation. Minutes later, the entire house was gone.
Lloyd Webb, left, and Nancy Webb holding Alexa Roth, the daughter of Vicki and Tony Roth... Vicky was a foster child who lived with the Webbs for many years.
While Nancy's parents were still living in the farmhouse, a small fire broke out. The smoke from the fire blackened the wall, leaving ghost images from ceramic birds that had been hung. Her parents left the farmhouse not long after the incident.
Lloyd, Nancy and Suzy lived in the camper trailer for several months, during construction.
The image on the left is a new downstairs bathroom/shower under construction. The image on the right is from an upstairs bedroom. The bookcase still holds books and toys from when Nancy, Myrta and Steve were children.
He was basically a runaway at this point, staying with friends, cutting school.
(He did a page spread on the Twedts for the June, 1998 issue, visiting them just days after the tornado hit.)
The intersection of South Dakota Highway 38 and County Road 431.
The hardwood flooring pieces were purchased at an auction that had featured many salvaged items from the closed Spencer School (several years prior).
A group of people from their church came to help do clean-up around the property.
This dinner was sponsored by local businesses a few days before Thanksgiving Day, 1998.
The home builder he hired abandoned the project completely the month before, leaving the Stones with more than $35,000 debt. In other words, essentially taking $35,000 from their pockets.
The Stone's original contractor abandoned him, leaving them with about $35,000 debt. Danny had to finish the house himself.
The builder he hired abandoned the job, leaving the Stones with more than $30,000 debt.
He taught me how to operate the backhoe and I got pretty good at it. However, two weeks later I accidently pulled up and severed the main power lines that had recently been buried (near the center of this image). I was digging a phone line and the hired electrician was the only other person there at the time. He said folks get killed doing that sort of thing. When Nancy came home later, I admitted my mistake. She laughed and said, "Don't worry about it! Lloyd does that sort of thing all the time." I held a flashlight late into the night while the electrician repaired it.
It eventually read: THE BIBLE SAYS ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE SARIN SAYS BE BROKE, BE HUMILIATED, BEG, AND MAYBE WE'LL HELP WITH DONATED MONEY. SARIN (Spencer Area Recovery and Interfaith Network) was a faith-based organization headed by the Rev. Mark Dickson, pastor of the Sun Prairie Baptist Church near Salem, South Dakota. Nearly 1 million dollars was collected in donations and SARIN was responsible for distributing the funds--which they did mainly to those who were under (or not) insured. The Twedts felt this was unfair. Dave made this sign in December, 1998 and it was stolen from his property on Christmas Eve, 1998.
They are living in the garage area of the commercial property currently under re-construction. The "home" part of the building process will not be ready for several more weeks. They were nearly to their wit's end.
She and Dave are living in the garage area of the commercial property they are remaking into a home. The "home" part of the building is under construction. Here, they were surrounded by tools Dave used to rebuild cars. The sheet makes me think of a tornado.
In front of his and Mary's home on the corner of South Dakota Highway 38 and County Road 431.
Because the Twedts were well insured, like many others, SARIN helped those who were not insured--from the very beginning. Dave felt the money should have been distributed evenly. His sign was stolen on Christmas Eve, 1998. Two negatives printed consecutively.
She has loaned out the use of the mobile home to Danny, Kara and their toddler, Brandon, and Richard while their new home in Spencer is under construction ten miles away.
She was teasing him for all the times he got farm and family vehicles stuck in the mud and snow. Nancy's sister, Myrta, is center--Christmas tree in background. The stairwell in the farmhouse.
A dead and frozen cow carcass, lower right.
Behind him is the temporary cardboard door that closes onto the nails (right).
My father's 1981 VW pickup. I found the doll head on the ground at the Webb's.
We were going back to the Webb's farm after getting some furniture out of storage on a farm northeast of Spencer--some friends of the Webb's.
Heating elements were placed beneath. The farmhouse is on the land that her grandfather homesteaded.
Heating elements were placed beneath.
Suzy and Bridgette by the propane tank. At the farmhouse.
The concrete foundation (left) was part of the barn that had been destroyed by a tornado in 1969. The barn, Lloyd said, could be seen from Highway 38 nearly 4 miles away.
Out in the barn, on the farm. It was around 25 to 30 degrees that day in the barn.
Their marriage would begin to dissolve the following year. Three negatives printed consecutively.
The building no longer exists--it was condemned and razed the following year.
Unemployed and behind in his rent.
We were celebrating Nancy's 47th birthday (May 16).
This was Saturday, May 17, 2003 and we were celebrating Nancy's 47th birthday (May 16). The sink, to the left, was at one time down the hall from my Sioux Falls studio space. I used it when washing prints.
Lloyd was pulling ticks off Powder (the white dog) and Issac was smashing them. Richard Nixon, Nancy's dog, watches.
Five years to the day when a F-4 tornado destroyed most of Spencer, South Dakota (about 1/2 mile north of this location). Winds to 50 mph were reported in Sioux Falls on the day this photograph was made.
Katie's 4th birthday. In Al and Doris Westerman's backyard.
We are at Al and Doris Westerman's in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Westermans are Mary Twedt's parents, making them Peanut's great-grandparents. Mary is left, with Paityn over her shoulder.
Six years to the day from the Spencer tornado.
We were celebrating Peanut's 5th birthday (July 19). This was the same year Jessica divorced Kaitlyn's father, Jayson Fredricks.
Jessica is the only child of Dave and Mary Twedt.
Jessica and Tony Byre were married earlier that day in Brandon, South Dakota.
Dave and Mary were in the process of rebuilding a part of their roof that had been blown off the year before (Spencer can be seen in the distance).
Katy is looking out the window of what was once their grandfather's bedroom (Dave Twedt). Katy's 6th birthday.
The Reverend's wife was one of six deaths during the May 30, 1998 tornado... He married Kara and Danny Stone in September, 1998... A sign on the Parish Center's door advertised free lots to those who would build in Spencer.
The local firemen are competing with one another to see who can spray the barrel to the opposite end of the suspended rope.
About 1/2 mile south of Spencer, South Dakota, the intersection of South Dakota Highway 38 and McCook County Road 431.
(June Thompson and I lived 3 blocks away.)
Hillbilly golf is a game played with two golf balls attached by a string of 18 inch rope. Each player has a set of three, and they toss them one at a time to one of two "gates" set about 20 feet apart. When a flopping string of golf balls catches a rung and stays on or wraps itself around, points are awarded: 3 points for the top, 2 for the middle, 1 for the bottom. The player who gets 21 points first wins.
The pool had been part of the Golden Pheasant Restaurant and Lounge. The building Dave and Mary made into a home following the Spencer tornado on May 30, 1998. Image made with a handbuilt 8x10 camera, fitted with a 100 year old lens.
Mary has been hosting Home and Garden Parties in private homes, school fundraisers, etc, for a second income. 5x7 contact print from handmade, handheld camera.
His Junior League football team from Salem, South Dakota had just played their first competitive game of the season. The opposing, more experienced team won... Four years earlier, Brandon, his mother, Kara and his two younger sisters, Rebecca and Tiffany, were involved in a rollover accident about a mile from Spencer. He kicked out the window of the minivan and ran a 1/4 mile in stocking feet through the snow and ice to get help, essentially saving her life.
(Daughter, mother, Virgin Mary.)
Her father, Lloyd Webb, is in the doorway. (Suzy was adopted by the Webb's when she was a child. Lloyd and Nancy had several foster children come and go from their home. Jenna--not pictured--was their only biological child.)
We were taking a break between Suzy Webb's wedding and the reception to be held later that evening. This is the first time Nancy had seen Lloyd in two and a half years.
I had not seen Lloyd in nearly four years--about the time he and Nancy divorced. When this image was made, he was living in Sheldon, Iowa, an hour and a half from Sioux Falls and working in an ethanol plant. I once thought of him as my closest friend in South Dakota... Many people thought the tornado had hardly fazed Lloyd, and they were probably correct. But nobody in his family called and asked how he was in the weeks that followed the storm... This image was made the day Suzy Webb married her high school boyfriend, Mike... Lloyd had not been out to the farm in nearly three years. It was hard to know what he was thinking.
Later that evening they will attend Suzy and Mike's wedding reception in Salem, ten miles east. Nancy's grandfather, Tillotson, homesteaded this land shortly before South Dakota became a state in 1889.
We were in the stairwell landing of the farmhouse, about an hour after Suzy Webb's wedding.
From left to right: Jenna Webb and Craig; Nancy and Lloyd Webb; Alexa and DJ (Vicki's children); Mike and Suzy; Isaac (Jenna's son); Vicki and her husband; Derrick; and Myrta Wold, Nancy Webb's sister.
(I've been taking Peanut to and from her dance lessons since she was five years old.)
Thomas (in center with horn) has momentarily borrowed the horn from the boy standing next to him. This was about an hour before a church service was held on this floor to celebrate the old church and to plan a new one on the same location. The banner reads: On Him Alone We Build.
Close to 200 vehicles were crushed and hauled away by Bernie following the May 30 tornado.
The kids Chatterley knows are Rebecca Stone (far left), Paityn Fredricks (fourth from left), Kaitlyn Fredricks (eighth from left), Breyton Fredricks (next to Kaitlyn, front). Chad Mentle is the coach (wearing sunglasses). This image was shot at Spencer's ballfield is in the Northeast part of town.
This photograph was made with Chatterley's hand-made camera fitted with a 100 mm lens removed from a plastic camera.
The home in the center of the photograph belongs to Cookie Mentle. Her son Troy once owned the car in the driveway. Troy, Richard Stone, and another boy were fishing during the day of the May 30, 1998 tornado. They were in Troy's garage cleaning fish when Troy saw the tornado coming into town. He managed to get himself, Richard and the other boy into a storm cellar just seconds before the tornado passed over them. Richard Stone credits Troy for saving his life. Troy died the following Halloween weekend from liver failure due to excessive drinking. He was living an apartment in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I spoke to him on the phone just a few days before. His name is present on the tornado memorial in town along with the six others who passed on May 30, 1998. The Stones' house is in the distance to the left.
This is one of two large trenches dug to accept the tornado damaged town following the May 30, 1998 tornado, June 1998
Consists of one 11x14 print, two 6x20 prints, and eleven 16x20 prints, all selenium-toned gelatin silver prints. Founded in 1994, the Durham, North Carolina based Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA) is a multi-year residential program that enables substance abusers to be productive, recovering individuals by providing comprehensive treatment, work-based vocational training, education, and continuing care. Chatterley's photographs document the program and its residents in the spring and summer of 2002. Original captions taken from back of prints. Arranged in original order as received.
Two prints that are not related to other series in this collection.
Photograph made with Chatterley's 1st handmade camera, a 5x7 aluminium camera painted red.
Consists of a publication on Asian migrant communities in N.C. containing Chatterley's work on Cambodian Americans, and five audio cassette tapes with interviews of Chatterley discussing his career as a documentary photographer. The interviews have been digitized and stored on a library server; listening copies must be made for access. Please consult with a reference archivist before coming to use this material.
The Greensboro Historical Museum mounted an exhibition from December 2003 to December 2005 entitled
Five audiocassettes containing an interview with Chatterley describing his life and career as a documentary photographer. Titles transcribed from cassette labels.
[Original audiovisual materials are closed to patron use. Digital files of these recordings are available, but listening copy must be made before contents can be accessed. Please consult with a reference archivist before coming to use these materials.]