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. Going to Work in the Fields - 1944. Man and Children - A Father's Day Moment - 1941. Educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown in her wedding dress - 1912. Spirit of America - World War I Era Patriotic Poster. Two Boys with Watermelon - Summers Fun Food - 1949. Plowing Tobacco - North Carolina's Top Cash Crop - 1926. Golfing at the Old Carolina Club in Raleigh - 1947. The Tyson Family - Photos and Reunions are a part of Summer - 1940s. The Breakers Hotel in Wilmington after Hurricane Hazel in October, 1954. Mother-Daughter Store Offers Back to School fashions, 1946. Workers at Pilot Mills, 1945, (Labor Day). It was football for O. Max Gardner in 1905; he became governor in 1929. Girls on Guitar; music lessons and practice often resume in fall. Tobacco Auctions were dress-up occasions in the 1960s. North Carolinian James Iredell served in the U.S. Supreme Court from 1790 until 1799. the court now goes int session on the first Monday in October. Andy Griffith,star of The Andy Griffith Show, which debuted on October 3, 1960. Cotton being picked near New Bern in the fall of 1900. Raleigh Times news carriers in 1941, an example of after-school employment. Carolina Beach after Hurrican Hazel in November, 1954. North Carolina mountain apples in a shed in Yancey county, early 1900s. Election Day in Laurinburg, November 1898 McLellan's Store War Bonds Display, 1942 (Veteran's Day) Turkeys on the move in Asheville, 1942 (Thanksgiving) A Fall Harvest of Plenty, 1900 -1917 Four Christmas Cards, 1900 - 1920's The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources is a state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina's arts, history, and culture. 
05/21/07
Sunning at Camp Sea Gull - a Way to Start the Summer on Memorial Day - 1944.
05/28/07
06/11/07
06/18/07
06/25/07
07/02/07
07/09/07
07/16/07
07/23/07
Night Baseball at Devereax Field in Raleigh - 1947.
07/30/07
08/06/07
08/11/07
School Days in Dunn, North Carolina - 1940's.
08/20/07
08/27/07
09/03/07
09/10/07
09/17/07
09/24/07
10/01/07
10/08/07
10/15/07
10/22/07
10/28/07
10/30/07
11/05/07
11/12/07
A canning and preserving project help to
stock up for the winter, 1946. 11/19/07
11/26/07
12/03/07
