A calendar for the New Bern Cotton Oil and Fertilizer Mills depicts a young man speaking to a swooning young woman with hat in hand . The saying for this calendar says "all's not grist that comes to the mill." The portrait was drawn in 1910 and the…
A photograph of the Atlantic Hotel in Morehead City before it burned in 1933. Established in 1880, hotel housed many prominent North Carolinians during its time up until its demolition by fire.
Real-photo postcard of an Armstrong Grocery Company truck decorated with flags and bunting in front of the Home Telephone Company building on Broad Street, possibly part of the September 1921 Eastern Carolina Fair parade.
Engraved map made of two joined sheets: Antigua Surveyed by Robert Baker Surveyor General of that Island by Thomas [J]efferys Geographer to the King. [title, lower right inside neat line]
Thomas Jefferys (ca. 1710-1771) was an engraver, geographer,…
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…
Hand-colored engraved map: An Accurate Map of the West Indies. Drawn from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved modern Maps and Charts, and Regulated by Astronomical Observations. By Eman: Bowen. [cartouche]. | No. 57 [lower left,…
Engraved map made of eight joined sheets: An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina with their Indian Frontiers, Shewing in a distinct manner all the Mountains, Rivers, Swamps, Marshes, Bays, Creeks, Harbours, Sandbanks and Soundings on the Coasts;…