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What New Bern, N.C. Has to Offer You: A Hand Book of Useful Information.
Booklet detailing New Bern's history and businesses around 1910.
Position: 556 (24 views)
Hotel Queen Anne, New Bern, North Carolina
Black and white image of the Queen Anne Hotel at 4xx Broad Street, ca. 1940.
Position: 462 (29 views)
Survey to Lay off ferry and roads for the Neuse River Ferry Co.
Pen and ink map: Survey to Lay off ferry and roads for the Neuse River Ferry Co. [title] | The heavy broken lines represent the roads laid off and staked with the center stakes, and are considered essential to the success of the enterprise. The old…
Position: 325 (39 views)
Auction at the Hughes-Stewart House, NE corner of Pollock and Craven Streets
View of crowd outside the Hughes-Stewart House attending an estate auction.
Position: 462 (29 views)
A Card, To the Republicans of Craven County
Broadside written by James C. Harrison, Republican Register of Deeds, defending himself against attacks from members of his own party.
Position: 134 (97 views)
An Autobiography of I.P. Hatch of New Bern
A booklet detailing the life of an African-American businessman, Isaiah Prophet Hatch. His reminiscences discuss African-American life in Craven, Jones, Pamlico, Carteret, and Lenoir Counties from the period just after the Civil War to the era of…
Position: 60 (106 views)
1893 New Berne Business Directory
One of New Bern's earlier city directories, this volume includes detailed information about the city's businesses and citizens. With the absence of the 1890 federal census, this book constitutes the largest printed listing of the residents of New…
Position: 13 (118 views)
Hendren on Methodism
Elizabeth Hendren wrote about the history of the Methodist Church and its establishment in New Bern. Born in 1837, Elizabeth Mayhew Hendren lived to the age of ninety-two, passing away in 1929. A 1920 newspaper clipping notes that she was the…
Position: 900 (4 views)
Front View of Christ Church
Pictured here is Christ Episcopal Church on Pollock Street before it burned in 1871. The view shows the front and left side of the building as well as the steeple. In front shows what seems to be a Civil War era soldier stands with his rifle in front…
Position: 761 (14 views)
A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America
Hand-colored, engraved map: Map of the British and French Settlements in North America. Univ. Mag. T. Hinton Newgate Street [cartouche] | Inset: Fort Frederick at Crown Point built by the French 1731 [inset, center bottom.]
Map shows North America…
Map shows North America…
Position: 104 (100 views)
In Honor of His Excellency ye Honorable Oliver Max Gardner Governor of ye State of North Carolina and his Good Ladye...
Invitation, program, and list of open houses for the Historic Celebration and Pageant held in New Bern on June 11, 1929.
Position: 533 (25 views)
Tryon Palace Grand Opening, Mrs. Kellenberger with Gov. Hodges
Image of Mrs. Kellenberger and Gov. Hodges standing before the gates of Tryon Palace during the grand opening ceremony, April 8, 1959.
Position: 435 (30 views)
Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina…
Hand-colored, engraved map: VIRGINIA MARYLANDIA et CAROLINA in America Septentroinali Britannorum industria excultae reparasentae a Ioh. Bapt. Homann S.C.M. Geog. Norimbergae [cartouche, lower right] | 86 [upper right corner, outside plate…
Position: 343 (38 views)
South Front Street, 500 block, north side
View of the north side of the 500 block of South Front Street showing gas tanks and delivery trucks, taken June 1947.
Position: 313 (40 views)
Mary Duffy Hughes standing in front of Tryon Palace Historical Marker
Image showing Mary Duffy Hughes standing beside historical marker on Pollock Street[?] about Tryon Palace.
Position: 594 (22 views)