Browse Collections (42 total)

North Carolina Paper Currency

Paper currency, National Bank of Newberne Note (third charter period), value ten dollars

During the Colonial Period, the scarcity of specie (coin) in North Carolina constituted a major problem. Settlers arrived with little hard currency…

Contributors: Tryon Palace Historic Sites, Craven-Pamlico Regional Library

Position: 3 (276 views)

Mrs. G. Tull Richardson Collection

A & N.C. Railroad Depot, August 1895

Contributors: Mrs. G. Tull Richardson Collection

Position: 17 (106 views)

Hugh Wood Photograph Album

Two women walking on bridge over creek, boat in water

Photographs taken by New Bern photographer Hugh Wood. The album contains sheets with two photographs per page. Pages 5/6 are missing and pages 7/8,…

Contributors: Hugh Wood Photograph Album

Position: 5 (191 views)

Leann Wilson Photograph Collection

Men laying sidewalks, Middle Street, ca 1908

John R. Taylor Photograph Collection

Hancock Street looking North from the Trent River Railroad Bridge, taken by Reid Whitford, 1895.

Dollie Bray Collection

Dowdy Furniture Store, 1920s interior

Photograph donated by Dollie Bray, 2009.

Position: 26 (98 views)

Winn Hughes Collection

Tryon Palace Grand Opening, Gov. Hodges cutting ribbon

Position: 22 (104 views)

Whitford Family Photographs

Afternoon tea on the back piazza of Dr. George Slover's residence (1895)

Collection of 20 photographs related to the Whitford family. Purchased from an antique dealer in Ephrata, Pennsylvania in March 2001, who bought them…

Position: 25 (99 views)

Christ Episcopal Church Collection

Photo, Interior "Xmas Decorations, 1945"

Frances T. Bowden Balma Collection

Craven Street, 100 block, west side

Collection of Photographs of New Bern taken in November 1908 by William Scobie Bowden, former Union Soldier. Bowden had been stationed in New Bern…

Position: 19 (105 views)

Hazel M. Brinson Collection

Stallings Plumbing & Heating Shop, 200 block, Craven Street, west side

Sarah Elizabeth Moore Collection

Dr. R. Duval Jones House, 400 block, East Front Street, about October 1955

Mrs. Junius W. Davis, Jr. Collection

Hand-McCotter House, 212 Johnson Street, New Bern, ca. 1920

Photographs donated April 2, 1984, by Mrs. Junius W. Davis, Jr.

Position: 28 (95 views)

Anonymous Donor Collection II

East Front Street, 400 block, looking north, snow on the ground

Mrs. O. Haywood Guion Collection

Auction at the Hughes-Stewart House, NE corner of Pollock and Craven Streets