Explore America: North Carolina

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Explore America: North Carolina

Wise, North Carolina, 1989

Doc Watson and Merle Watson

Photo of Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone) at age 12

Andy Griffith

July 4 March through Chapel Hill

Outer Banks Memory

Tying Tobacco Leaves, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

1924 Fourth Grade Class Picture, Williams Street Primary School, Goldsboro, North Carolina

Charlotte, N. C.

The Wright Brothers First Flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Carte-de-visite of a Freedmen's School with students and teachers

Advertisement on the side of a drugstore, Wendell, North Carolina

Photograph of Adela Akers in Penland, North Carolina

Ocracoke House

Libba Cotten

Belva Cutshall, Marshall Bypass, North Carolina

A member of the praise team uses flags to usher in the spirit of the Lord at Evangel Fellowship COGIC, Greensboro, North Carolina, 2005

Creef Boatworks at Wanchese on Roanoke Island, North Carolina

Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family

Photograph of Adela Akers at the loom in Penland, North Carolina

Woman standing at gift wrap counter

Rocky Mount, North Carolina (Burning Tobacco Barn)

Ocracoke, Gate

Creef Boatworks at Wanchese on Roanoke Island, North Carolina

Charlotte, N. C.

Dairy Queen

Marshall, North Carolina

Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr. and two unidentified men at Bennett College

Marshall, North Carolina

Louise Daniels' House, Greenville, North Carolina, from the series Places for the Spirit, Traditional African American Gardens of the South