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]> phc_heulon_dean_133 Finding Aid of the Heulon Dean Photograph Collection, 1950-1966 Processed by: Kim Cumber; machine-readable finding aid created by: Kim Cumber &hdrNcDncsa; 2008 Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: September 2008 Description is in English Finding Aid of the Heulon Dean Photograph Collection, 1950-1966 State Archives of North Carolina &tpNcDncsa; Descriptive Summary State Archives of North Carolina. Dean, Heulon Heulon Dean Photograph Collection, 1950-1966 Ph.C.133 Materials in English 63 For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, State Archives of North Carolina. Heulon Dean was born 10 February 1925, in Granville County, NC, son of Franklin Pearce Dean and Minnie Williford Dean. His parents were farmers and moved to Wake County to avoid the Granville Wilt that was taking over tobacco grown in the Granville County area. The family relocated to the community of Needmore just north of Fuquay-Varina, then known as Fuquay Springs. Dean opened the Heulon Dean Studio in 1957, which soon became Heulon Dean and Associates Photography. His studio became very successful and built one of the first Custom Color Labs for producing portraits for himself and for other photographers in the area. Sixty-three (63) 4"x5" black and white photographic negatives dating 1950-1966 depicting various events, structures, historic sites, and people in and related to the town of Fuquay-Varina, NC (Wake County). All photos were taken by Heulon Dean, a professional photographer who worked in and operated a studio in Fuquay-Varina from the early 1950's until the 1990's. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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[Identification of item], Ph.C.133, Heulon Dean Photograph Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Donated to the State Archives of North Carolina September 2008 by Heulon Dean, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

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Processed by Kim Cumber, September 2008

Encoded by Kim Cumber, September 2008

Biographical Note

Heulon Dean was born 10 February 1925, in Granville County, NC, son of Franklin Pearce Dean and Minnie Williford Dean. His parents were farmers and moved to Wake County to avoid the Granville Wilt that was taking over tobacco grown in the Granville County area. The family relocated to the community of Needmore just north of Fuquay-Varina, then known as Fuquay Springs. The Dean family included Heulon and three brothers - Hursel Grant Dean, Jesse Lee Dean, and Alfred Stanley Dean - and one sister - Margaret Elizabeth Dean.

Heulon attended local public school and graduated from the Fuquay Springs High School in 1941 at the age of sixteen. He was drafted into the United States Army on 28 October 1944. Following basic training at Fort Blanding, Florida, he was sent to Europe where he was assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 423rd Infantry regiment, 106th Infantry Division. He was a replacement in the Division that took the brunt of the Battle of the Bulge in Germany. He served in both the Regimental and Division headquarters as Acting Sergeant Major. After the surrender, his Division was assigned to occupy Germany. Later, Dean was selected to escort High Point enlisted men and officers back to the United States for discharge, handling all their records. Back at home, he served in Fort Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster School until being discharged on 30 July 1946.

Immediately following his discharge, Dean interviewed for a position as an Assistant Manager of Proctor Barbour Company, Inc., in Fuquay Springs, the largest retail hardware, furniture, appliance, and building supply company in North Carolina. He was hired and within a year was promoted to Manager. Dean worked at Proctor Barbour for eleven years and was very active in the cultural and civic life of Fuquay Springs. He married Alta Broughman in August of 1948, and they had one daughter, Lisa Carol Dean (m. Harold Upchurch, Jr., and adopted son Zachary Ivan Upchurch from Russia). Dean is also credited with spearheading and leading the successful fight to have the first paved streets in the Town of Fuquay Springs and for leading the effort to change the name of the town from Fuquay Springs to Fuquay-Varina, NC. While working for Proctor Barbour, Dean also wrote for the local newspaper and later the Raleigh News and Observer and the Raleigh Times doing news stories and features about the local area and illustrating them with photographs. He took night courses at North Carolina State University where he studied photoghraphy under Dr. Landis Bennett. These classes and his newspaper photography experience inspired him to decide to become a professional photographer.

Dean left Proctor Barbour in 1957 and opened Heulon Dean Studio, which soon became Heulon Dean and Associates Photography. His studio became very successful and built one of the first Custom Color Labs for producing portraits for himself and for other photographers in the area. Dean is a member of the Professional Photographers of North Carolina and over the years held many offices in that organization including President and Executive Director. He was also an active member of the Professional Photographers of America, earning a Craftsmans Degree from that organization as well as their Outstanding Service award. Dean has been the recipient of numerous state and national awards and honors for his photography and earned many Merit Gold Bars in state and national competitions. His civic involvement includes service as a Town of Fuquay Springs Commissioner, Director and member of the Fuquay Springs Chamber of Commerce and for eighteen years Director of the Miss Wake County Pageant. He was a member of officer in the Fuquay Springs Lions Club and President of the Fuquay Springs Jaycees. He was awarded the honor of Outstanding Young Man of the Year in 1958 by the Jaycees, Lion of the Year for 1965-1966, and Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen of the Year in 1972.

Dean is a lifelong member of the Fuquay-Varina Baptist Church and is a Life Deacon. Following the death of his first wife, he married Jane Elmgren Dean in 1988, and they served together as co-chairpersons for a four million dollar building program for the church. Dean is also managing partner of Bur-Dean Investments, a firm that among other ventures owns the Lighthouse Convention Center in Raleigh, NC. He is a trustee of the Lighthouse Christian Foundation and also a founder of the Patriot State Bank of Fuquay-Varina. Dean operated Heulon Dean and Associates Photography until the 1990's when he began a phased retirement.

Collection Overview

Sixty-three (63) 4"x5" black and white photographic negatives dating 1950 through 1961 depicting various events, structures, historic sites, and people in and related to the town of Fuquay-Varina, NC (Wake County). All photos were taken by Heulon Dean.

Collection Arrangement

Collection is divided into series based on the year the photos were taken and individual negatives are assigned a unique call number beginning with the last two digits of the year the photo was taken followed by a number generated consecutively as photos were filed. This filing and numbering scheme was developed by the photographer/donor, and every effort has been made to maintain this original system so that future additions to the collection can be readily merged into the existing system and the photographer's papers, should they be acquired, will be a useful compliment to these photographs.

Exact year unknown 1956 1957 1958 1959 1961 1966 Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Subject Terms Advertising Ashworth's Store Barbershops Bulldozers Carolina Feed Company Case tractors Clarks Esso Service Station Clayton, Everette Coker's Hybrid Corn Cornell-Dubilier Council, Willard DeLise, Tony Durham and Southern Railway Company E. B. Brown Tobacco Company Elliott, A. G., Jr. Elliott's Pharmacy Elmo Company England, Paul Farmers Supply Store Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Fuquay Furniture Company Fuquay Motor Company Fuquay Springs Community Pool Fuquay Springs High School Fuquay-Varina Public Library Fuquay-Varina Rural Fire Department Gulf Oil Company-U.S. Heulon Dean and Associates Photography Holding, Robert P., Jr. Holland, Chester Howard, Bruce Howard, Walter Johnson, A. N. Johnson, Glendon Johnson, Woodrow Johnson's Drug Store Jones, Jesse Keith, Ernest King Roberts and Everette Clayton Tobacco Warehouse Libraries Lucknow Clothing Company Lucky Strike Matthews, Leo McNair's Yield-Tested Seed Company (Laurinburg, N.C.) Mitchell, Buford Mitchell Chevrolet Company Mitchell, Wallace Norfolk and Southern Railroad Phipps, Robert J. Pleasants Crown Service Station Pope's Store Prince, Robert E. Proctor Barbour Company Railroad stations Ralston Purina Company Restaurants--North Carolina Robert E. Prince House Roberts, King Rogers Esso Service Station Rowland, Betty Lanier Rowland, Lee Rowland, Leo Schools--North Carolina Scott, Grover W. Senter, Grayson Service Barber Shop Service stations Southern Wake Hospital Stephens, Marvin Stephen's Hardware Stevens, Marvin Stores, Retail Stuart, Harold Sugg, J. Lloyd T. R. Ashworth, Inc. Tastee Freez Tobacco Tractors United Telephone Company of the Carolinas Utley, James Barrett Varina Farmers Exchange (FCX) Store Wake Yam Storage Company Weston, Leona Geographic Terms Fuquay Springs (N.C.) Fuquay-Varina (N.C.) Varina (N.C.) Wake County (N.C.) Container List Exact year unknown

Photographs taken between 1950 and 1970, exact year not known.

PhC133_nd_23 Fuquay Springs, NC, in the 1950's6 negatives PhC133_nd_23_A Dr. A. N. Johnson Office, Optometrist, undergoing remodeling, Fuquay Springs, NC, in the 1950's PhC133_nd_23_B Clarks Esso Service Station, adjoining restaurant under construction, barber shop, and Tastee Freez, North Main Street, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_23_C Tastee Freez, North Main Street, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_23_D Southern Wake Hospital under construction, Ransom Street, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_23_E New Fuquay Springs High School, South Woodrow Street, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_23_F Firestone Store, Service Barber Shop, and Farmers Supply Store, east side South Main Street, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_140 Fuquay Springs, NC, various 1950's events6 negatives PhC133_nd_140_A Fuquay Springs, NC, Town Board being sworn in, 1950's. Left to Right: Grover W. Scott, Paul England, Bruce Howard, J. Lloyd Sugg, Mayor Robert P. Holding, Jr. Administering the oath is Chester Holland, Magistrate. PhC133_nd_140_B Fuquay Springs, NC, observes its first garbage packer, 1950's. Left to Right: Leo Rowland, a town employee; Woodrow Johnson, Mayor; and Willard Council, Town Manager. Unidentified workers in background. PhC133_nd_140_C South Main Street, looking north, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_140_D Varina business section, Broad Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1950's PhC133_nd_140_E North Main Street, looking south, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950 PhC133_nd_140_F First street paving, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's; Lee Rowland, Public Works PhC133_nd_294 United Telephone Company, new building, North Main Street, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's 1 negative PhC133_nd_296 Varina Farmers Exchange (FCX) Store, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1950's; Marvin Stephens, owner, with employees1 negative PhC133_nd_657 Fuquay Springs Community Pool under construction in the Falcon Park, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's 1 negative 1956

Photographs taken in 1956.

PhC133_1956_94 Bank of Fuquay, Fuquay Springs, NC, 19562 negatives

Exterior corner view of the Bank of Fuquay and an interior shot of a group of employees.

PhC133_1956_100 Cornell-Dubilier, Fuquay Springs, NC, 19565 negatives

Interior views of Fuquay Springs' first large industry, Cornell-Dubilier, manufacturer of capacitors.

PhC133_1956_100_A Cornell-Dubilier plant manager Tony DeLise, center; Jesse Jones, Personnel Director, right; unidentified person at left, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1956 PhC133_1956_100_B Cornell-Dubilier engineering department, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1956 PhC133_1956_100_C Cornell-Dubilier assembly line, primarily women working, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1956 PhC133_1956_100_D Cornell-Dubilier machine shop, men working, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1956 PhC133_1956_100_E Cornell-Dubilier plant, men and women working testing capacitors, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1956 1957

Photographs taken in 1957.

PhC133_1957_43 Durham and Southern Railroad Depot, Norfolk and Southern Railroad Depot, railroad crossing, and Varina businesses, Fuquay-Varina, NC, vicinity, 19571 negative PhC133_1957_45 Exterior view of a block of retail stores in Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1957. Stores depicted include Ashworth's, Pope's, and Elmo Company. A Florsheim's Shoes sign is also featured, and a trash can and car are visible.1 negative PhC133_1957_71 E. B. Brown Tobacco Company, Fuquay Springs, NC, 19575 negatives

Various interior views of the E. B. Brown Tobacco Company, tobacco grading and storage plant, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1957.

PhC133_1957_71_A Workers grading tobacco at E. B. Brown Tobacco Company before placing tobacco into hogsheads, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1957 PhC133_1957_71_B Workers (women, mostly African American) packing loose tobacco into a hogshead press at E. B. Brown Tobacco Company, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1957 PhC133_1957_71_C Stacks of tobacco ready to be placed into hogsheads at E. B. Brown Tobacco Company plant, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1957 PhC133_1957_71_D Unidentified workers (male, white and African American) at E. B. Brown Tobacco Company plant, Fuquay Springs, NC, early 1950's PhC133_1957_71_E Stacks of filled hogsheads of tobacco in the storage warehouses of E. B. Brown Tobacco Company, Fuquay Springs, NC, early 1950's PhC133_1957_92 Exterior view of the Bank of Varina, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19571 negative PhC133_1957_142 Fuquay-Varina Rural Fire Department Personnel, 19574 negatives

Various group shots of the Fuquay-Varina Rural Fire Department personnel.

PhC133_1957_142_A Fuquay-Varina Rural Fire Department firemen and equipment, fire truck in 1957. Photo taken on Academy Street in front of the Robert E. Prince Home, Fuquay-Varina, NC. PhC133_1957_142_B Fuquay-Varina Rural Fire Department firemen and equipment, fire truck in 1957. Photo taken on Academy Street in front of the Robert E. Prince Home, Fuquay-Varina, NC. PhC133_1957_142_C Fuquay-Varina City and Rural Fire Department firemen and fire engines in 1957. Photo taken on Raleigh Street with Elliott's Pharmacy, Johnson's Drug Store, and Lucknow Clothing Company on right corner, Fuquay-Varina, NC. PhC133_1957_142_D Fuquay-Varina Town and Rural Fire Department firemen and fire engines in 1957. Pumper truck and tank truck for fighting rural fires are both in this picture. Photo taken on Raleigh Street with Johnson's Drug Store, Stephen's Hardware, and Lucknow Clothing Company on right, Fuquay-Varina, NC. PhC133_1957_221 Mitchell Chevrolet Company, South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19571 negative

Ms. Betty Lanier Rowland waving and standing in front of her car on the street in front of Mitchell Chevrolet Company on South Main Street in Fuquay-Varina, NC. Photo is taken from across the street and provides a good front and partial side view of the exterior of the Mitchell Chevrolet building.

PhC133_1957_233 Proctor Barbour Company entries in Christmas Parade, Fuquay Springs, NC, 19572 negatives PhC133_1957_233_1 A 1918 Case tractor, appears to be in yard of the Proctor Barbour Company, Fuquay Springs, NC, Christmas season, 1957. PhC133_1957_233_2 Proctor Barbour Company Christmas Float featuring a Case bulldozer, shown with spectators on the corner of Academy Street and South Fuquay Avenue, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1957 PhC133_1957_293 Tobacco Sales in Roberts and Clayton Warehouse, Fuquay Springs, NC, c.19573 negatives PhC133_1957_293_A King Roberts and Everette Clayton Tobacco Warehouse sales, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's

Left to right: Ernest Keith, tobacconist; King Roberts, leading sales; unknown; Everette Clayton. Second from right: James Barrett Utley, tobacco buyer.

PhC133_1957_293_B Workers packing tobacco into baskets for sale, King Roberts and Everette Clayton Tobacco Warehouse, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's PhC133_1957_293_C Weighing in a basket of tobacco at scales, King Roberts and Everette Clayton Tobacco Warehouse, Fuquay Springs, NC, 1950's

View of a basket being weighed in and the warehouse worker handing a ticket or a check to the seller through the window of the scales office. Lucky Strike cigarette advertisements are prominently displayed on the office wall and a McNair's Yield-Tested Seed Company, Laurinburg, NC, ad is also visible.

Series: 1958

Photographs taken in 1958.

PhC133_1958_3 Farmers Day Parade, South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19585 negatives

Views of Farmers Day Parade participants passing Mitchell Chevrolet Company on South Main Street and crowds gathered watching from the sides of the street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958.

PhC133_1958_3_A Miss Wake County, Leona Weston, of Garner, NC, Farmers Day Parade, riding in a convertable sports car with sign saying Fuquay-Varina Jaycees, passing Mitchell Chevrolet Company and The Food Center on South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958. PhC133_1958_3_B Kids Float filled with children, Farmers Day Parade, passing Mitchell Chevrolet Company and The Food Center on South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958. PhC133_1958_3_C Happy kids and adults, men and women, watching the Farmers Day Parade from in front of Mitchell Chevrolet, South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958. PhC133_1958_3_D The Cornell-Dubilier float with female employees of the company dressed in gowns, Farmers Day Parade, passing Mitchell Chevrolet Company and The Food Center on South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958. PhC133_1958_3_E The Fuquay Springs Marching Band, Farmers Day Parade, passing Mitchell Chevrolet Company and The Food Center on South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958.

Great view of majorettes and musicians as well as a clown and spectators along the parade route.

PhC133_1958_18 Board of Directors of the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce in 1958, President: Leo Matthews 1 negative

Group shot of eleven men and one woman posed behind a large table in a conference room.

PhC133_1958_19 Wake Yam Storage Company opens in Fuquay Springs, NC, 19582 negatives PhC133_1958_19_A Bank of Fuquay purchases the first bushel of yams produced from the Wake Yam Storage and packing facility, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958

Full length shot of three men, a bushel basket of yams, and a sign announcing the Bank of Fuquay purchases the first bushel of yams produced from the Wake Yam Storage and packing facility, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958. Left to right: unidentified; Marvin Stevens, owner of the processing plant; and Robert E. Prince, President of the Bank of Fuquay.

PhC133_1958_19_B Inspecting grading section inside Wake Yam Storage and packing facility, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958

A group of five men inspecting the grading section inside Wake Yam Storage and packing facility, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958. Left to right: unidentified; unidentified; Leo Matthews, President of the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce; Fred Lee Hunt; Fuquay High School Vo-Ag teacher; and L. Y. Ballentine, North Carolina Lieutenant Governor and longtime North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture. Two unidentified men look on from the background also.

PhC133_1958_328 Aerial view of the Cornell-Dubilier plant and a tobacco warehouse on South Main Street, looking southeast, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19581 negative PhC133_1958_683 Fuquay Springs Library, (Fuquay-Varina Library), Fuquay Springs, NC, no date and 1958 2 negatives PhC133_1958_683_A Library officials at the opening of the second library in Fuquay Springs, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1958

Interior group photograph around a desk, left to right: Glendon Johnson, President and designer of the new library; unidentified woman; Harold Stuart; and Robert J. Phipps.

PhC133_1958_683_B First Fuquay Springs Library (Fuquay-Varina Library), Fuquay-Varina, NC, no date

Exterior view of the first Fuquay-Varina Library located on Academy Street at the site where the Fuquay Springs High School was in 1958. (The high school was moved to new site off Hwy 55 later.)

1959

Photographs taken in 1959.

PhC133_1959_592 Exterior overall view of Fuquay Motor Company, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19581 negative

Oblique view of the building showing many cars parked around the building, and Ford and other advertising signs.

PhC133_1959_606 Exterior front view of the Varina Farmers Exchange, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19591 negative

View shows a variety of signs and slogans painted on the building including "Varina Farmers Exchange," "Feeds and Fertilizers," "Seeds of Known Origin," "Distributor," "General Farm Supplies," and "Open Formula" Feeds and Fertilizers.

PhC133_1959_763 Aerial views of Fuquay Springs, NC, 19593 negatives PhC133_1959_763_A Aerial shot of the Fuquay Springs High School and Fuquay Springs Elementary School viewed from South Main Street looking east, 1959 PhC133_1959_763_B Aerial shot of downtown Fuquay Springs, NC, looking south and showing in foregrouind the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics Plant and tobacco warehouses, 1959 PhC133_1959_763_C Aerial shot of Fuquay Springs, NC, business section, looking north on South Main Street, 1959 1961

Photographs taken in 1961.

PhC133_1961_93 Elliott's Pharmacy, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19611 negative

Interior view of Elliott's Pharmacy showing Walter Howard and A. G. Elliott, Jr., behind the counter preparing drugs. (Heulon Dean's original number for this negative was 61093.)

PhC133_1961_97 Tom Ashworth with T. R. Ashworth, Inc., Gulf Oil truck, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19611 negative

Full figure view of Tom Ashworth standing at the door of a T. R. Ashworth, Inc., Gulf Oil truck in front of a brick building. The building is mostly obscured by the truck; the cab of the Dodge truck and part of the tanker section of the truck are shown. (Heulon Dean's original number for this negative was 61097.)

PhC133_1961_106 Carolina Feed Company, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19611 negative

Exterior front view of Carolina Feed Company showing Russell Goss and his helper Edward Bowling with several large bags of Purina feed, Coker's Hybrid Corn, and potted plants. Advertisements for Purina Dog Chow and coal are also shown. (Heulon Dean's original number for this negative was 61106.)

PhC133_1961_114 Pleasants Crown Service Station, North Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19611 negative

Exterior oblique view of Pleasants Crown Service Station showing gas pumps, a Fuquay-Varina Oil Company heating oil tanker truck, a car, and an upholstery shop in the background. The Fuquay-Varina Oil Company office is located within this gas station. (Heulon Dean's original number for this negative was 61114.)

PhC133_1961_116A Mitchell Chevrolet Company Showroom, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19611 negative

Interior of the Mitchell Chevrolet Company Showroom; left to right: Wallace Mitchell, Buford Mitchell, Grayson Senter, and an unidentified salesman are shown posed with three new Chevrolet cars. (Heulon Dean's original number for this negative was 61116.)

1966

Photographs taken in 1966.

PhC133_1966_479 South Main Street businesses, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 19661 negative

Overall view of a corner of South Main Street, Fuquay-Varina, NC, 1966, showing at left the Fuquay Motor Company Ford Dealership and Used Car Lot, and at the right Rogers Esso Service Station and the Fuquay Furniture Company. (Heulon Dean's original number for this negative was 66479.)