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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 13 records found where LC Subject Heading is Photography -- History -- 20th century
	Panoramic photograph, view of Union Station looking East This Holladay Studio image presents a panoramic view of Durham from the Durham County Courthouse on Main Street to St. Joseph's AME Church on Fayetteville Street. The view depicts (from left to right) Durham County Courthouse, Hotel Lochmoor, E.H. & M.V. Lawrence, wholesale millers, Union Station, and St. Joseph's AME Church.
	Photograph of James Southgate Portrait of James Southgate (1832-1914) reading the newspaper. Image taken at Miss Katie Johnson's studio, Durham, North Carolina.
	Aerial photograph of Durham looking toward the Northwest This aerial view of downtown Durham was taken prior to the completion of the Washington Duke Hotel (ciirca 1925). In the foreground on Main Street are the First Presbyterian Church and Durham County Courthouse. The view also shows Union Station, Liggett & Myers and Imperial Tobacco. Durham High School and the Pearl Mill Village are visible in the background.
	Panoramic photograph of Parrish Street in Durham This panoramic view of Parrish Street (circa 1926) features the six-story headquarters of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, a company established by black entrepreneurs, John Merrick, Dr. Aaron M. Moore, and Charles Clinton Spaulding. The firm's headquarters (as depicted in this image) was designed by Durham architects Rose and Rose and erected in 1921. Five years later, the building, located at 114-116 Parrish Street, housed the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mutual Building & Loan Association, and the Merrick-McDougald-Wilson Company. After North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company moved to its new headquarters on Chapel Hill Street in 1965, the old headquarters on Parrish Street was renamed the Mechanics & Farmers Bank building. The right panel of this photograph features the Durham County Courthouse (erected in 1916) and the Union Depot, both designed by Milburn and Heister Company, architects.
	Photograph of Golden Belt Manufacturing building Photograph of the Golden Belt Manufacturing building with people standing outside. The Durham Chamber of Commerce published this image in their 1926 brochure entitled Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Panoramic photograph of Erwin Cotton Mills with mill housing Holladay Studio photographed Erwin Cotton Mills and the company's housing for its employees, which is located nearby the mill.
	Panoramic photograph, American Tobacco factory in Durham looking to the East This panoramic view of Durham, North Carolina shows the factory of the American Tobacco Company, the original home of the W. T. Blackwell & Company enterprise, producer of Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco. This view was shot from the western edge of the factory complex looking eastward over the Washington Building. The image appeared in Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education, a publication issued by the Durham Chamber of Commerce in 1926.
	Panoramic photograph of downtown Durham looking west This panoramic view, taken from the Washington Duke Hotel, captures several landmarks. On the left, at the corner of Blackwell and Pettigrew streets, sits the historic W. T. Blackwell & Company Tobacco Factory, purveyor of Bull Durham tobacco, and part of the American Tobacco Company. The Liggett & Myers plant sits in the center panel near the horizon. The Imperial Tobacco Company and the Durham High School appear in the distance of the right panel. In the foreground on the right, sits the Durham Auditorium (now the Carolina Theatre). Holladay Studios shot the image which appears on p. 10 of the 1926 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication, Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Panoramic photograph of the American Tobacco Company and downtown Durham The left panel of the panoramic image features the historic W.T. Blackwell and Company Factory built in 1874, and an extensive manufacturing plant owned by the American Tobacco Company. At the horizon in the center panel are the twin steeples of Duke Memorial Church and the Liggett & Myers plant; railyards and commercial buildings sit in the foreground. The right panel features buildings near the intersection of Main and Corcoran streets including the Durham Loan & Trust Building, the Washington Duke Hotel, the United States post office (built in 1904), Wright Corner, and the Geer Building. Holladay Studio shot the image for the 1926 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication, Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Panoramic photograph, view of Erwin Cotton Mills This photograph shows a panoramic view of the Erwin Cotton Mills, originally established in 1892 by Benjamin N. Duke and his partners. The mill complex contained manufacturing and storage facilities as well as a company town with millworker housing and a general store. Remaining structures from the Erwin Cotton Mill, are located near Main and Ninth Streets in Durham. This image appears in the 1926 Durham Chamber of Commerce publication entitled, Durham, North Carolina: A Center of Industry and Education.
	Photograph of Electric, Ice Plant, Durham Traction Company A 1914 photograph of the Durham Traction Company Light and Power building, in front of which sits a motorized "Electric Truck No. 1," as well as horse-drawn wagons. Richard Harvey Wright was the first president of the company; Julian Shakespeare Carr served as Vice President.
	Photograph of Pender's Grocery Store, 709 Fayetteville Street, Durham, North Carolina This photograph depicts Pender's Stores Co., grocers, and the Hunter Masonic Temple located at 709 Fayetteville Street in the Hayti neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina. Signs in the grocery store window advertise beans, peas, lye and sugar. A gentleman stands in the doorway of the building adjacent to Pender's where the glass windows advertise the offices of Dr. Cordice, physician and surgeon.
	Photograph of children in playground with ball Durham Chamber of Commerce photograph of children playing on a playground with a ball, on a see-saw, and with other toys. In the background is an advertisement for BC Headache products.

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