Old pictures of Columbus

1907

Strawberries loaded into freight cars

1939

watermelon on a hot summer day

1938

Farm woman

1862

"Contraband" planting sweet potatoes on Hopkinson's Plantation

1940

An outdoor picnic

1938

Segregation Drinking fountain

1934

Southern textile workers celebrate Labor Day

1908

Loray Mill

1939

Mrs. Rosa

1908

Lincolnton, N.C. National Child Labor Committee.

1862

Enslaved family

1912

Child Labor in an Oyster Processing Plant

1909

Three young girls working as oyster shuckers.

c. 1865

Group of old folks at home

1939

Tobacco Bag Stringing

1939

Mrs. Emma family.

1899

Family at their log home

1885

Children

c. 1900

Broughton Hospital

1903

First successful flight of the Wright Flyer

c. 1922

Trade Street

1869

General Lee and his Confederate officers in their first meeting

1864

A captured Confederate encampment

1864

13 inch mortar Dictator

1865

Dead Confederate soldier inside Fort Mahone

1865

Soldiers boxing in a Union camp

c. 1920

West Jefferson

c. 1931

Aerial view

1865

Field workshop in the Ninth Army Corps.

1865

General Rufus Ingalls and group.

c. 1934

Mae Gouge weaving

c. 1876

Booker T Washington portrait

1873

S.M. Edwards house

1862

African American refugees with Union soldiers

1938

Brand new car

1865

A group of Contrabands at Haxall’s Mill

1890

Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Robert E. Lee

1930

Agecroft Hall

1913

Special tactile tours

1903

The Wreck of Old 97

1862

Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from his balloon "Intrepid".