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…
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"
Hand-colored, engraved map made of two joined sheets: A Compleat Map of North Carolina from an actual Survey. By Captn Collet, Governor of Fort Johnston. Engraved by I. Bayly. [across top of map, above neat line] | To His Most Excellent Majesty…
"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.
An advertisement for the Tuscarora Mills Company, owned by James A. Bryan, a dealer in Yellow Pine. Bryan owned many businesses in New Bern as well as being a banker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.