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North Carolina paper currency, Debenture Bill value three pounds

North Carolina paper currency, Bills of Credit value twenty-five dollars and one hundred dollars

Booklet detailing the history of the Guion family and giving a life story of Dr. John Amos Guion, of New Bern.

Colored, engraved map made of two joined sheets:“L’Europe Divisée Selon L’Etendue de Ses Principaux Etats Et subdivisés en leurs principales Provinces Dressèes sur differents memoires. (Translation: Europe divided according to the scope of its…

Colored, engraved map, made of two joined sheets: “L’Asie Divisée selon tous ses Etats Empires et Royaume &c. Dressèe sur differents memoires. A Lyon Chez Daudet rue mercierre 1752.” (Translation: Asia divided according to states, empires and…

Picture and brief biography of John P. Green, an Ohio legislator born in New Bern, N.C. Appears to be clipped from Twentieth century Negro literature, or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro edited by D.W. Culp…

Picture and brief biography of James Walker Hood, Bishop in the A.M.E. Zion Church, who lived in New Bern, N.C. Item appears to be clipped from Twentieth century Negro literature, or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the…

Engraved five-dollar National Bank of New Berne note, called the Columbus Note. Face design: (left) Columbus in sight of land; (right) Columbus with an Indian Princess. Borders on all four sides: alternating “FIVE” and “5.” Main text: (Serial letter)…

A dance card used by ladies at a masquerade ball. The card was slipped over the lady's wrist using the ribbon, and her dances for the evening were penned in the section marked "Engagements"

Color postcard of Centenary Methodist Church at the corner of Middle and New Streets.