Terry Boling and Beth Ensign papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Terry Boling and Beth Ensign papers
Creator: Ensign, Beth
Inclusive Dates: 1978-2009
Language(s): English
Extent: 6.5 Linear Feet 7 boxes
Collection Number: ms4598
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Terry R. Boling (1955-2016) was a photographer and multimedia artist from Atlanta, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia. Bolin's wife Beth Ensign, also a multimedia artist, completed a Masters Degree from the University of Georgia in 1984. Terry Boling photographed rock bands during Athens' music heyday of the 1980s, and was an active participant with the Rat and Duck Playhouse, an experimental theater group in Athens. Boling and Ensign exhibited art regularly, both solo and collaboratively.

Scope and Content

This collection contains photographs, slides and ephemera documenting the personal life and artistic careers of Terry Boling and Beth Ensign. The collection materials are chiefly from the time they lived and worked in Athens, Georgia.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], Terry Boling and Beth Ensign papers, ms4598, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Photographic design chronicle - Terry Boling - Art 3206, 1981

 

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Southern Jam Magazine - Terry Boling photographs, 1978

 

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3

Apparatus Project - Photographs, press, paperwork, 1988-1989

 

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4

Present Arts - ACLU Auction, 1990

 

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5

Georgia Southern exhibition - Negatives, contact sheets

 

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6

Fishbowl, S House - Negatives, contact sheets, posters

 

1

7

Crash of the Convertibles exhibit - Negatives, contact sheets

 

1

8

Henry 'N Dooley exhibit materials

 

1

9

People at the Grill exhibit materials

 

1

10

Parts of People at the Grill - Photographs

 

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11

People at the Grill - Photographs, negatives

 

1

12

Cottonwood Vigilante

 

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13

Mabus & Molpus exhibit - Negatives, photographs, promotional

 

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Mabus & Molpus - Photographs

 

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16

Segments of Beth - Photographs

 

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Family portrait segments - Photographs

 

1

18

Segments of Finster - Photographs

 

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19

Bill C. in segments - Photographs

 

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Davy Stevens(son?) segmented - Photographs

 

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21

Sandi Phipps - Photographs

 

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22

Watt in Car, small collage - Photographs

 

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23

Athens, R.E.M., Kum's Fashions, Portraits - Photographs

 

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24

R.E.M., Oh OK, Matching Fibers, Cable Diary - Negatives, contact sheets

 

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25

Limbo District, DEVO, The Ramones and others at Agora - Negatives

 

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26

Weddings, Show in Statesboro, others - Negatives, contact sheets

 

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Athens, 167 Chatooga Avenue - Negatives, contact sheets

 

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The Crowd, Pieces of Pieces, downtown Athens - Photographs

 

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Parade, Auction, Cemetery, Rattlesnake Roundup - Negatives, contact sheets

 

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Flowers (Iris) - Photographs

 

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Miscellaneous photographs

 

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Miscellaneous negatives, contact sheets, photographs, collage

 

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Miscellaneous photographs, contact sheets

 

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Miscellaneous negatives, contact sheets

 

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John and Cynthia's wedding - Negatives, contact sheets

 

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Jarvis - Seawright wedding - Photographs, 1992

 

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Chatooga Avenue - Photographs

 

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Mounted photographs

 

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Rat and Duck - Press, promotion

 

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Rat and Duck - Negatives, photographs, contact sheets

 

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Rat and Duck - Writing

 

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Rat and Duck - Table de Hote - Photographs, negatives, contact sheets

 

2	18	Posters, comics, ephemera
		includes Jill Carnes comic, Joni Mabe posters

 

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Terry Boling - Resume, slides, press

 

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Ephemera - handmade cards, posters, photographs

 

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Correspondence - Terry Boling and Beth Ensign

 

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Beth Ensign - Art slides, photographs

 

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Beth Ensign - MFA thesis show - Puppet Pieces - Rat and Duck, 1984

 

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Beth Ensign - Art installation photographs

 

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Beth Ensign - Art proposals, forms

 

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Beth's press

 

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Beth Ensign - Exhibit photographs, slides, contact sheets

 

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Beth Ensign - Art exhibit materials

 

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Beth Ensign - Eckerd College, Skinner correspondence, 1985-1993

 

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Beth Ensign - Lyndon House Art Center

 

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Beth Ensign - Teaching handouts

 

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Beth Ensign - Correspondence with Joni Mabe

 

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Willamae Boling

 

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Willamae memory journals, 1994-2005

 

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Sketchbooks, notebooks (7)

 

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Family photographs

 

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Sketchbook

 

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Scrapbook pages

 

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Terry Boling scrapbook

 

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The Book of Willie 'N Us - Memory scrapbook

 

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Willamae, born recently - Photographs

 

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Slides, unprocessed

 

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People at the Grill, Fishbowl - Club Rio, S-House, others - Negatives, contact sheets in binder

 

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Slides, unprocessed

 

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Early Athens and before - Negatives in binder

 

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Negatives, unprocessed