PUBLIC "-//North Carolina Division of Historical Resources::North Carolina State Archives//TEXT (US::NcD::[PH.C.79]::Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Photograph Collection)//EN" "phc_museum_earlysouthern_decorativearts.xml" Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Photograph Collection Processed by: Stephen E. Massengill; machine-readable finding aid created by: Dietra Stanley North Carolina Division of Historical Resources

North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncdcr.gov URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Microsoft Word. Date of source: the first quarter of the twentieth century Finding aid completed August 23, 1999, by Stephen E. Massengill; Finding aid encoded by Dietra Stanley, North Carolina State Archives, November 25, 2003 Description is in English. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Photograph Collection North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 Contact Information Division of Historical Resources North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncdcr.gov URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/default.htm Processed by Stephen E. Massengill Date Completed August 23, 1999 Encoded by Dietra Stanley Date Encoded November 25, 2003

Descriptive Summary Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Photograph Collection The small collection consists of images of houses, people, and places from the coast to the mountains of North Carolina. A portion of the images are unidentified. 19 items; Includes black and white photographic negatives, (14) 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 glass plate negatives and (4) 3 1/2 x 3 3/4 and (1) 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 film negatives. North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Information for Users Access Restrictions

Available for research.

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Preferred Citation

[P.C.79.1] Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources, Office of Archives and History.

Acquisition Information

The collection was donated to the Division of Archives and History in January, 1997 by MESDA, P. 0. Box 10310, 924 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27108-0310. Bradford L. Rauschenberg of MESDA initially sent the collection to Catherine Bishir, and she forwarded it to the State Archives on February 23, 1998. It was accessioned in September, 1999.

Processing Information

Finding aid completed by Stephen E. Massengill

Completed August 23, 1999

Collection Overview

The small collection consists of images of houses, people, and places from the coast to the mountains of North Carolina. A portion of the images are unidentified. The identified ones include, the Palmer Marsh House at Bath, St. Thomas Church at Bath, the Cupola House at Edenton, the Joel Lane House at Raleigh, the Dr. Fabius J. Haywood House at Raleigh, a river baptism, and a train station in western North Carolina. The negatives may have been the work of a woman photographer perhaps Bayard Wootten or Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Arrangement

The photographic negatives are arranged geographically (east to west) and by subject.

Online Catalog Headings Architecture, Domestic. Dwellings--North Carolina--Photographs. Raleigh (N.C.)--Photographs. Bath (N.C.)--Photographs. Edenton (N.C.)--Photographs. Railway stations--North Carolina--Photographs. Baptisms. Container List 79.1 1. Entranceway to St. Thomas Church, Bath, NC, n.d. 2. Palmer Marsh House, Bath, NC, n.d. 3. Palmer Marsh House and family graveyard, Bath, NC, n.d. 4. Cupola House, Edenton, NC, n.d. 5. Cupola House, Edenton, NC. n.d. 6. Waterfront view of unidentified North Carolina town, n.d. 7. Farmstead scene in coastal plain region of North Carolina, n.d. 8. Human bones and gravestones at unidentified site along the North Carolina coast. 9. Joel Lane House, Raleigh, NC, n.d. 10. Joel Lane House, Raleigh, NC, n.d. 11. Joel Lane House, Raleigh, NC, n.d. 12. Photograph of drawing of the Joel Lane House, Raleigh, NC, n.d. 13. View of Dr. Fabius J. Haywood House, corner of Morgan and Fayetteville streets, Raleigh, from State Capitol grounds, n.d. 14. African-American woman washing clothes outside, probably near Raleigh (Mordacai section),n.d. 15. River baptism, n.d. 16. River baptism, n.d. 17. Ox powered cart poses in front of an unidentified railroad station in western North Carolina, n.d. 18. Members of a farm family working near outbuilding, n.d. 19. People eating outside at a table under shade trees, n.d. Related Material:

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) at http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us