North Carolina State Archives' photostream  

Welcome to the Flickr site of the North Carolina State Archives. Through this site, we hope to provide a glimpse into some of the unique collections available in the State Archives and to engage you in helping us put names and dates to some of our unidentified and poorly identified photographs.

The North Carolina State Archives collects, preserves, and makes available for public use historical and evidential materials relating to North Carolina. Our holdings consist of official records of state, county, and local governmental units, and copies of federal and foreign government materials. In addition to these official records are private collections, organization records, maps, pamphlets, sound recordings, photographs, motion picture film, and a small reference library. In all, the Archives houses over 50,000 linear feet of permanently valuable materials containing millions of individual items. The State Archives is part of the Archives and Records Section of the Office of Archives and History www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/, a Division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources www.ncculture.com. Please visit the official website of the North Carolina State Archives at www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/default.htm and read our blog at history4all.blogspot.com/.

A variety of means are available to you for accessing our collections -- old-fashioned card files and analog finding aids, online finding aids www.archives.ncdcr.gov/ead/default.htm, and various lists, calendars, and old-school in-house reference tools. You must utilize all of these (and you may still need to call a reference staff person as well) in order to fully search our holdings. Thankfully some of our material is indexed and searchable online via the online MARS catalog mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/AdvancedSearch.aspx. Youtube tutorials www.youtube.com/user/ncarchives may help you use this online catalog more successfully than you can by simply trying to navigate your way through it intuitively. And we now have this ever-growing Flickr presence where you can conveniently browse and search some of our photos.

If you would like to use any of the photographs displayed here, please do, but please make sure to properly credit us. All material from the North Carolina State Archives used for reproduction or illustrative purposes must be accompanied by the following credit line:

Courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives

Some publishers may require a letter or form formally granting permission to use and/or reproduce photographs and other items. If you require such a permission letter, please contact the State Archives at: www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/default.htm.

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