Couples Dancing at Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #275

Staff Person: Nanette Hardison

Description:

The image shown is a postcard of a dance held in the Lumina Dancing Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. The postcard, dated around the early 1900s, shows couples wearing the fashion of that time period. This along with other postcards and photographs can be found in the Moore Family Papers, Manuscript Collection #275. The collection’s finding aid is located at http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0275/. The postcard is also part of Digital Collections’ Eastern North Carolina Postcard Collection, which includes images of other postcards from the Moore Family Papers.

Interior of Lumina Dancing Pavilion at night, Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington, N.C.