Name: Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939
Brand: Adams Publishing Group (Greeneville, TN)
SKU: 9781597259873
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ISBN: 9781597259873

Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939

Winterville High School students enjoying social time between classes, circa 1905. Courtesy Jesse Riggs Collection

A man watching a wind-powered schooner leave the Plymouth docks, circa 1905. Photo taken by Washington County photographer P. E. Davenport. Courtesy UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library

The Gallopade Parade near northwest Main Street in downtown Rocky Mount, circa 1939. Courtesy DigitalNC-Edgecombe County Memorial Library, M. S. Brown Collection

A man looks over the Tar River from the bridge in Greenville, circa 1912. The sign on the bridge reads: “Warning! All persons are forbidden to ride or drive over this bridge faster than a walk — Five dollars fine for every offence — By order of County Commissioners.” Courtesy East Carolina University Special Collections / #0441-s1-b1-fb-i5

Advertising tobacco sales by automobile in Greenville, circa 1929. Courtesy East Carolina University Special Collections / #0039-b5-fa-i5

Jean Cox (left) and Mary Elizabeth Bray stepping into the shade of the cypress trees by Lake Phelps as they walk toward the Somerset Plantation, 1938. Courtesy State Archives of North Carolina, Conservation and Development, Travel Information Division Photograph Collection, 1373

James Gideon Barnhill (right) and others inside the Bailey and Barnhill store in Robersonville, early 1900s. Courtesy East Carolina University Special Collections / #1182.5.b

Pepsi-Cola bottling room in Greenville, late 1930s. Originally called “Brad’s Drink,” Pepsi was first invented by Caleb Bradham in his pharmacy in New Bern in 1898. It was made from a mix of sugar, water, caramel, lemon oil, nutmeg, and other natural additives. Courtesy East Carolina University Special Collections / #P-1136.158

George Harrell of Oak City, a member of Company K, 369th Infantry during World War I, circa 1917. Harrell died from battle wounds in France on June 16, 1918. Courtesy State Archives of North Carolina, Compiled Individual Military Service Records, Military Collection 14, Box 7, Folder 85.1

Greenville High School baseball team, 1922. Kneeling, from left: Richard Williams, Wesley Harvey, Douglas West, Frank Harrington, Berry Jenkins, Robert Forbes, Cecil Satterthwaite. Standing: Wyatt Brown (manager), Jimmie Barber, Zero Brown, Fernando Satterthwaite, C.B. West, Herman H. Duncan, Cecil Bilbro. Photograph used in the 1922 The Tau, yearbook of Greenville High School. Courtesy East Carolina University Special Collections / #0921-b1-fa-i2

Roanoke River Lighthouse in Plymouth, 1914. After the Civil War, the US government built a lighthouse in the Albemarle Sound at the mouth of the Roanoke River to help restart maritime commerce, and Plymouth was designated a port of entry for northeastern North Carolina. Courtesy Outer Banks History Center

Chain gang of convicts in their quarters in Pitt County, 1910. When not engaged in road work, the convicts were quartered in wagons, which were equipped with bunks, and moved from place to place as labor was utilized. The central figure in the picture is J. Z. McLawhon, county superintendent of chain gangs. Courtesy Library of Congress / #2017761945

Edgecombe County officials with the first airmail plane in Tarboro, October 12, 1937. Courtesy DigitalNC-Edgecombe County Memorial Library, M. S. Brown Collection

Town employees in Tarboro drinking Coca-Cola at a gathering, circa 1939. Courtesy DigitalNC-Edgecombe County Memorial Library, M. S. Brown Collection

A Coca-Cola truck and other vehicles parked on the street by a Farmers Warehouse in Edgecombe County, circa 1939. Courtesy Edgecombe County Memorial Library / #PH 409

Men on horse-drawn carts overlooking a crowd of people on the street in Columbia, June 14, 1913. Courtesy Tyrrell County Public Library

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The Adams Publishing Group of newspapers is pleased to present a new heirloom-quality, 136-page hardcover coffee-table book, "Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939."

This meaningful keepsake is a collaboration of journalists representing the Rocky Mount Telegram, The Daily Reflector, The Standard and The Enterprise, and will feature a glimpse of life in and around the counties that make up Eastern North Carolina in stunning historic photos from the archives of local area historical organizations, as well as never-before-published submissions from our readers.

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Title: Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939
Hardcover, limited edition
ISBN: 9781597259873
136 pages
Size: 11.25" x 8.75" x 0.5"
Published by Pediment Publishing
Printed in North America
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Specifications

Title: Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939
Hardcover, limited edition
ISBN: 9781597259873
136 pages
Size: 11.25" x 8.75" x 0.5"
Published by Pediment Publishing
Printed in North America
Available now

Presented bY

About the book

The Adams Publishing Group of newspapers is pleased to present a new heirloom-quality, 136-page hardcover coffee-table book, "Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939."

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