Postcard of the residence of James B. Blades, built in 1913 and demolished ca. 1967. Residence stood on the south side of the 300 block of Broad Street.
"Resurgam" by Mary Bayard Clarke is a post Civil War poem about the south lifting their heads after the war being over. It was written for Confederate Memorial Day commemorations on May 10, 1878.
A history of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War presented in three lectures plus a preliminary sketch on the Battle of the Alamance. Contents include:
The Battle of the Alamance by Francis L. Hawks
The Mecklenburg Declaration of…
A brief biography of the eighth governor of the state of North Carolina, Richard Dobbs Spaight. Reprinted from volume 1, number 2 of the North Carolina Historical Review.
A horse and buggy travel along a tree-lined roadway believed to be in Craven County. Along the roadside is a split-rail fence. Spanish moss hangs from the branches of some of the trees.
View of New Bern looking northwest from the top of the U.S. Courthouse and Post Office. Just to the left of center is the spire of First Presbyterian Church. Right of center is the spire of St. Paul's Catholic Church.
Booklet of poetry compiled by Pamlico County native, Leo Turrell Brinson (1898-1976). All of the poems were written by Rev. G.A. Studdert Kennedy, a World War I British Army chaplain, and were published in his Rough Rhymes of a Padre in 1918. The…
The Oxford Self-Pronouncing Bible. S.S. Teacher's Edition. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his majesty's special command.…