Explore America: North Carolina

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Explore America: North Carolina

North Carolina, from the United States Series

Wise, North Carolina, 1989

Path to Chapel, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Tying Tobacco Leaves, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Toxaway Falls, N. C.

Highlands, N.C.

Charlotte, N. C.

Herbs from Aunt Deedy's Pharmacopoeia, N. C.

U. S. C. G. Lifeboat Sta., Hatteras Inlet, N. C.

Water Carriers

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

Carolina Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)

Laundry Workers

Ocracoke House

Belva Cutshall, Marshall Bypass, North Carolina

Cupola House, Edenton, NC

Mountain Landscape, Highlands, North Carolina

Rocky Mount, North Carolina (Burning Tobacco Barn)

Ocracoke, Gate

Charlotte, N. C.

Study for Mural of View near Albemarle

Marshall, North Carolina

Marshall, North Carolina

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