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![]() | Milestones along the color line. A souvenir of Durham, North Carolina showing the progress of a race Oliver B.Quick created Milestones Along the Color Line. A Souvenir of Durham, North Carolina Showing the Progress of a Race, to show property “owned and controlled exclusively by Negroes in the city of Durham, N.C.” In his preface he noted, “we have selected these [institutions and homes] as evidence of the progress being made by our race group in this section of the South.” The pamphlet contains numerous photographic images of churches, schools, business establishments, private residences and street scenes. | |
![]() | Art in Negro homes Essay by Trinity College professor Jerome Dowd (1864-1952) describing a survey made by three Trinity College students in the early 1900s of the interiors and exteriors of 25 homes in Hayti, a largely African American community in Durham, North Carolina. The article enumerates the material cultural artifacts--decorative art, carpets, and furnishings--in these homes as well as the titles of books, magazines and newspapers. | |
![]() | Map of Durham County, North Carolina prepared by the direction of the County Commissioners from actual surveys This 1920 map provides two views of Durham County. One view delineates the school districts in Durham County and indicates which schools served white or black pupils. It also identifies Mangum, Lebanon, Durham, Oak Grove, Carr, Patterson, and Cedar Fork townships and provides locations for cemeteries and roads. Another view labelled Cities of East and West Durham identifies street names for areas that are now customarily referred to as Old West Durham, including the Ninth Street business district, Trinity Park, Trinity Heights, Walltown (portion), Duke University (East Campus), Old North Durham, Downtown Durham and Fayetteville Street (Hayti), West End, Morehead Hill (portion), Edgemont and Morning Glory, Cleveland-Holloway Street, East End, East Durham (portion). |
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