History Happens Here
“History Happens Here” is a year-long celebration to tell North Carolina ’s stories of struggle and freedom, memorable characters,and colorful daily life. Each week we will have a photo from one of the 500 events that are scheduled for 2007.
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All Photos are Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives,
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
Photo of the Week
02/14/07
Raleigh's Broughton High School Sweetheart Dance - 1938.
03/09/07
Temple of Israel constructed in 1876 - 1890.
03/19/07 - 03/26/07
Early faculty of the Palmer Memorial Institute, now Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum in Sedalia, an early preparatory school for African Americans at its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s.
03/19/07 - 03/26/07
Women Suffragettes in North Carolina seeking the right to vote.
04/02/07
Easter Sunday Service at St. Mary's College in Raleigh - 1944.
04/09/07
Wyatt Seeds readies for Spring Planting - 1941.
04/16/07
May Day Queen, Gladys Toon, a Model for Today at Flora McDonald College in Laurinburg - 1918.
04/30/07
St. Augustine's College Baseball Team and Others Enjoy the Summer Past Time - 1949.
05/07/07
Mothers Day Spirit Captured in Painting of Mrs. Lymann and Daughters, 1920's.
05/14/07
Shad Boat is a symbol of North Carolina's Fishing Tradition - 1900s.
05/21/07
Sunning at Camp Sea Gull - a Way to Start the Summer on Memorial Day - 1944.
05/28/07
Going to Work in the Fields - 1944.
06/11/07
Man and Children - A Father's Day Moment - 1941.
06/18/07
Educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown in her wedding dress - 1912.
06/25/07
Spirit of America - World War I Era Patriotic Poster.
07/02/07
Two Boys with Watermelon - Summers Fun Food - 1949.
07/09/07
Plowing Tobacco - North Carolina's Top Cash Crop - 1926.
07/16/07
Golfing at the Old Carolina Club in Raleigh - 1947.
07/23/07
Night Baseball at Devereax Field in Raleigh - 1947.
07/30/07
The Tyson Family - Photos and Reunions are a part of Summer - 1940s.
08/06/07
The Breakers Hotel in Wilmington after Hurricane Hazel in October, 1954.
08/11/07
School Days in Dunn, North Carolina - 1940's.
08/20/07
Mother-Daughter Store Offers Back to School fashions, 1946.
08/27/07
Workers at Pilot Mills, 1945, (Labor Day)
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