NC Archives: Collections

The State Archives of North Carolina collects, preserves, and makes available for public use historical and evidential materials relating to North Carolina. In all, the Archives houses over 50,000 linear feet of permanently valuable materials containing millions of individual items. Some of the types of materials in the Archives collection are listed below.

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Lenoir County Alien Registration Record for Fadwa Melhem Haddad

Government Records

Public records created by county, state, and municipal governments.

Will Hamlin (BMC student) in the Chemistry lab, Black Mountain College

Academic Records

Student academic and financial aid records of defunct proprietary, church-supported, or other non-public post-secondary schools and colleges in North Carolina.

Raleigh Times News Carriers August 31, 1915. The top story in the paper the boys are carrying/displaying in the picture is the appointment of Robert L. Gray as the new editor of The Times.

Audiovisual Materials

Photographic negatives, print photograph and image collections, audio recordings, motion picture films, and other moving image media.

Bible Records

Photocopied or digitized copies of family information pages from privately held Bibles.

Virginiae Item et Floridae, Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio. Hand-colored print of a map. This map was based on the 1590 White and 1591 Le Moyne maps. It was drawn by Jodocus Hondius and published by him in an edition of Gerard Mercator's "Atlas...auctus ac illustratus a Iudoco Hondio." Amsterdami, 1606, No. 143.

Maps

Manuscript and published maps depicting North Carolina or some portion thereof, as well as maps featuring other geographic areas.

Photograph of Lawrence E. Allen (center) and two unidentified African American shipmates from an unidentified U.S. Navy ship [believed to be the USS Macon], pictured walking down the road wearing their U.S. Navy uniforms in Sweden. (CLDW 23.F3.13)

Military Collections

Records relating to the military heritage and veterans of North Carolina from 1742 to the present.

Header of the North Carolina Gazette from April 15, 1757

Newspapers

Microfilm copies of newspapers that, for the most part, are no longer being published.

Headphones developed by Reginald Fessenden

Oral Histories

The Oral History Unit gathers oral histories from around the state in coordination with department goals and campaigns.

Certificate of Incorporation of Dix Hill Hospital Training School for Nurses, Incorporated

Organization Records

Records of many of the state's private, professional, or civic organizations.

Private Collections

Papers and records of individuals, families, businesses, and other entities.

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Manteo, NC

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Asheville, NC

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