Collections in the Image Archives
The Collection Descriptions currently available on the Web from the Heritage
Center Archives are listed below. Click on the Collection Name to view
detailed information about the Collection.
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Baldy Sanders Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): PC 330
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Collection Dates: 1774 to 1931
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Description: The Baldy Sanders Collection contains records of slaves and plantation operations from 1830 to 1868, with slave birth records dating to 1774.
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Catch-Me-Eye Photograph Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): PHC 22
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Collection Dates: 1940 to 1942
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Description: The Catch-Me-Eye Collection contains pictures of the site of a munitions truck explosion near Selma on March 7, 1942.
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George T. Whitley Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): PC 3
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Collection Dates: 1913 to 1935
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Description: The materials in the collection consist mainly of scrapbooks which Whitley kept during his years as an educator in Johnston County. Of particular interest is a now-rare copy of the 1913 Soil Survey of Johnston County. A school lesson plan book from 1916-1917 and numerous clippings relating to World War I (including letters from Johnston County soldiers published in local newspapers), agriculture, taxation, and local government in Johnston County would also prove valuable to the local history researcher.
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Henry Burwell Marrow Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): PC 2.1 - PC 2.4
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Collection Dates: 1912 to 1955
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Description: The H. B. Marrow collection contains photographs, manuscripts, and books relating to his years as school superintendent for Chapel Hill, Smithfield, and Johnston County between 1912 and 1951 and to his work on revising public school laws in North Carolina following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954.
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James Bryan Creech Collections
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Collection Call Number(s): PHC 37; 2000.001; PC 263
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Collection Dates: 1860 to 1993
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Description: The James Bryan Creech Collection contains artifacts, photographs, and papers from the Creech and Langdon families of Four Oaks and Elevation Township, Johnston County, NC.
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Mildred L. Harris (Wyoming Hotel) Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): 2000.026; PC 320
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Collection Dates: 1900 to 1918
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Description: The Mildred L. Harris Collection contains a teapot, cream pitcher and sugar bowl used at the Wyoming Hotel in Selma, NC.
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Olivia Pettway Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): 2000.011; PHC 78
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Collection Dates: 1837 to 1906
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Description: The Olivia Pettway Collection contains artifacts and photographs from the Lockhart, Jones, and Ennis families of Wilson's Mills Township and Smithfield, Johnston County, NC.
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Reuben Johnson Photograph Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): PHC 38
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Collection Dates: 1940 to 1980
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Description: The Reuben Johnson Collection contains a very wide variety of photographs. Mr. Johnson was a local photographer from circa 1950 to 1980. He photographed many important events and landmarks in the County. Examples include the Myrtle Airport in Selma, the Annual Singing Convention in Benson and the tobacco markets in Smithfield. He also photographed many local people at work in an area industry. These industries include: K.R. Edwards Tobacco Company, Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Fieldcrest Mills, and Burlington Industries.
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Sanders-Long-Rose Papers
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Collection Call Number(s): PC116.1-116.3
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Collection Dates: 1798 to 1974
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Description: The Sanders-Long- Rose Papers were kept by Ruth Sanders Rose of Smithfield and are associated with several branches of the Sanders family in Cleveland, Pleasant Grove, and Smithfield Townships, Johnston County, NC.
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Smithfield Dispensary Bottles
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Collection Call Number(s): 2000.008; 2000.009
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Collection Dates: 1899 to 1902
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Description: These liquor bottles were used by the Smithfield Dispensary between 1899 and 1902.
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William and M. Emmet Robinson Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): PC 1.1 - PC 1.2
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Collection Dates: 1844 to 1891
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Description: The William and M. Emmet Robinson Collection contains letters and other papers dating from circa 1844 to 1891. The collection contains letters written from James H. Robinson to his father William Robinson from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as letters from William George Robinson while a cadet at West Point. The collection also contains legal and medical papers, obituaries, pamphlets, receipts, and speeches.
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William R. Keen Papers
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Collection Call Number(s): PC 4
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Collection Dates: 1912 to 1929
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Description: These papers, including chattel mortgages, real estate mortgages, crop liens, and other records of debts owed to the Keen business, apparently were turned over to Congressman Edward W. Pou, an attorney in Smithfield, when William R. Keen's estate was being settled in the early 1930s.
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William S. Powell Collection
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Collection Call Number(s): 2000.036
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Collection Dates: 1840 to 1920
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Description: The William S. Powell Collection contains artifacts and photographs which belonged to four generations of the Powell family of the Sanders Chapel community in Smithfield Township, Johnston County, NC.
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