This photograph features Omar ibn Said, known as Uncle Moreau, slave of General James Owen. Writing on the photograph notes that it was taken when Moreau was around eighty years old, and that he lived into his nineties.
An aerial view looking Northeast at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company. This photograph was taken Dec. 29, 1941, just 23 days following the launching of its first vessel.
This photograph depicts some of the last vessels constructed at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company shipyard. The six Grace Line vessels are (from left to right): the SS Santa Isabel, hull 243, launched April 16, 1946; the SS Santa Luisa, hull...
The S.S. Santa Elisa was completed was launched May 6, 1944. This photograph of the 123rd ship completed by the NC Shipbuilding Company was taken July 31, 1944. It took 101 days to construct the ship at the NC Shipbuilding Company.
Daisy Lovering stands in front of a brick and stone building in a portrait taken by Nashville photographer Duncan Doris. Lovering's autograph is on the back of the portrait. Lovering (1869-1950), aunt to Helen Lovering, was an actress who...