June 2010 Archives

Jun 28, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Photograph of “Hilma,” the home of John L. Bridgers, Jr., Tarboro, N.C.

Source: John L. Bridgers Family Papers, 727.1.c.8 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This ornate house belonged to John Luther Bridgers, Jr. (1850-1932). It was located adjacent to what is now...

Jun 25, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Imperial Tobacco Company Factory Employees

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.11.a.7 Staff Person:  Martha Elmore Description:  In this August 1956 image taken for the Greenville, N.C., Daily Reflector newspaper,  African American women are sorting tobacco at...

Jun 18, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Annie Bruce Carr posing with her Dolls

Source: Elias Carr Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #160.9.e.29 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown is of Annie Bruce Carr, daughter of  North Carolina Governor Elias Carr. She...

Jun 10, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

“Cat’s Eye” Marble Reflector Railroad Crossing Sign

Source:  The Daily Reflector Image Collection, Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:  The “cat's eye” marble reflector was invented in 1933 by Percy Shaw of Boothtown, Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK.  Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_(road)

Jun 04, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Black Man in Red Russia

Staff Person: Ralph Scott Source: Homer Smith, Black Man in Red Russia, Chicago, Johnson Publishing Company, 1964, Hoover Collection DK 267 S587 Description: Black Man in Red Russia relates the...