north carolina

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 3/08. Witness, Sa...

Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus...

Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Pictorial map. Covers coastal region from Cape Fear to Chesapeake Bay. From Thomas Hariot's A br... more

Enos Blair Log House, High Point vic., Randolph County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1750. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-76. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints... more

Enos Blair Log House, High Point vic., Randolph County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1750. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-76. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints... more

A new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georg...

Scale ca. 1:2,900,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 60." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1380 Available also th... more

A new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georg...

Scale ca. 1:2,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 60." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1380 Available also through the Libr... more

A new and exact plan of Cape Fear River, from the bar to Brunswick,

Scale ca. 1:90,000. "Lat. 33⁰54ʹ observ'd by Mr. Wheatly 1752." Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: London. Includes text. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1502 Available also through the Library of ... more

A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole prov...

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ..." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 142... more

A survey of the coast about Cape Lookout in North Carolina, taken the ...

Scale ca. 1:26,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Plate no. "27." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1508 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... more

Karte von Carolina und Georgien zur allgemeinen Geschichte der Reisen.

Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 49." From Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande. 1758. v. 16. no. 19. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1385 Available also through the L... more

Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.

Scales differ. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Sheet title in Latin and German. Individual map titles and text in German. Maps in English and German. From the authors' Atlas geographicvs maior, 1753-59 ... more

D. Carolina, nebst einem Theil von Florida

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Latest date on map: 1716. English. Title in German, historical notes in English and German. From the authors' Atlas geographicvs major. 1753-59 [i.... more

Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.

Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Sheet title in Latin and German. Individual map titles and text in German. Maps in English and German. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 83 Differs from o... more

A plan of the harbour of Cape Lookout surveyed and sounded by His Maje...

Scale ca. 1:14,200. Title on verso: Cape Lookout Harbour, No. Carolina, 159. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over a cross and the letters LVC. Depths sho... more

A new map of North & South Carolina, & Georgia /

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct ... more

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated, in black ink, in lower right marg... more

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and ha... more

A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole prov...

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " "Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in F... more

[An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian fronti...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Imperfect: Part of title wanting. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca... more

A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole prov...

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " "Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in F... more

A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole prov...

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... " "Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in F... more

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. LC copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.... more

Carolina septentrionale et meridionale en 4 feuilles, traduite de l'An...

Scale ca. 1:560,000. Alternate title: An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontiers, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, s... more

A Plan of that part of the boundary between the states of North and So...

Scale ca. 1:260,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Charleston. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Old Cherokee Boundary" which was changed in 1777. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1... more

Carolina septentrionale et meridionale en 4 feuilles, traduite de l'An...

Scale ca. 1:560,000. Alternate title: An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontiers, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, s... more

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, an...

Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Includes descriptive and historical notes. Supplements the author's A topographical descri... more

An act for confiscating the property of all such persons, as are inimi...

Not in Evans.; On verso: Package 11; 1777 P.R.O. C.O.5. 176, F. 7; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed ... more

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and...

Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. LC copy annotated in ink. One annotation shows "Indian line as of treaty in 1784." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Includes historical a... more

Plan de la rivière du Cap Fear depuis la barre jusques à Brunswick.

Scale ca. 1:90,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 1." Includes sailing "Instructions" and "Observations." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 15... more

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and...

Scale ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Annotated in ink. One annotation shows where "Genr. Wayne defeated the Indians Augt. 20, 1794." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Lo... more

George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: Cosmo de M...

Report on North Carolina 3rd Continental Light Dragoons

A new and accurate map of North Carolina in North America.

Shows counties, towns, courthouses, "Dobbs Parish," churches, forts, rivers, swamps, shoals, and inlets along the coast. Covers the area from Cape Hatteras to Rowen County. Relief shown by contours. Mounted on ... more

Horatio Gates to Board of War of North Carolina, October 30, 1780

Plan de la rivière du Cap Fear depuis la barre jusques à Brunswick.

Scale ca. 1:90,000. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 1." From the author's Neptune Americo-Septentrional. [1780] Includes sailing "Instructions" and "Observations... more

Battle of Guildford fought on the 15th of March 1781.

Scale ca. 1:18,600. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1515 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650

Cape Fear River, with the counties adjacent, and the towns of Brunswic...

Shows shoals and a few soundings at the entrance to the river, "Fort Johnson," the towns of Brunswick and Wilmington with the distance of each town from Charleston, S.C., and bridges and houses along the river.... more

Battle of Guildford fought on the 15 of March 1781.

Scale ca. 1:10,800. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1514 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650

The West Indies, including part of Virginia, North Carolina, East Flor...

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1713 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

The West Indies, including part of Virginia, North Carolina, East Flor...

Scale ca. 1:6,000,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Second state : Hispaniola is no longer divided into French and Spanish sections and an explanatory note has been deleted. L... more

Battle of Guildford, fought on the 15th of March 1781.

Scale ca. 1:18,600. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored. Engraved from manuscript no. 52 in Faden collection. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1516 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site... more

North Carolina General Assembly, December 22, 1787, Act

Act

Battle of Guildford [Guildford Courthouse, N.C.] fought on the 15th of...

Engraved map. Illus. in: Tarleton, Campaigns in the Southern Provinces of North America, 1780-81 (London, 1787). No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card trac... more

[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation]...

Print shows cherubs unrolling a scroll inscribed "New Map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys... more

North-Carolina. The following minutes concerning the state of North-Ca...

On verso: 09-83-443.20. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 135, Folder 3a.

For sale. The quantity of 389,565 acres of farm lands, in sixty adjoin...

North Carolina- lands for sale.; On verso: 09-83-443.20. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Po... more

Part of the Province of Virginia.

Scale ca. 1:120,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows Princess Ann, Norfolk, and part of Nansemond counties. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1143 Available also through the Library of Congress... more

Meteorological Diary, January 1792, Warrenton, North Carolina

Warrenton, North Carolina

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

A map of North Carolina : from the best authorities

Relief shown by hachures. "Published July 24th 1794 by J. Stockdale Piccadilly. From Jedidiah Morse's The American geography, 1794. Prime meridian: London. LC copy imperfect: Shellacked, staining throughout, an... more

... An act to erect a lighthouse on the head-land of Cape Hatteras; an...

Caption title: At head of title Third Congress of the United States: at the first session, begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.; Signed: Frederick Augustus Mu... more

U.S. Reports: Gamberling v. McCall, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 280 (1797)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 2; Dallas Volume 2; December Term, 1797; Camberling versus McCall

U.S. Reports: Sims Leffee versus Irvine, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 425 (1799)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 3; Dallas Volume 3; February Term, 1799; Sims Leffee versus Irvine

The committee on the Governor's message having under consideration tha...

On verso: Governor. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 135, Folder 3b.

U.S. Reports: Ogden v. Blackledge, 6 U.S. (2 Cranch) 272 (1804)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 6; Cranch Volume 2; February Term, 1804; Ogden, Administrator of Cornell, v. Blackledge, Executor of Salter

To David Stone and Peter Brown, Esq. : this first actual survey of the...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows state and county boundaries, names of counties, towns, cities, drainage, roads, railroads, churches, mills and other points of interest. Printed in 3 segments. Prime meridian: Lo... more

North Carolina.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

U.S. Reports: Polk's Lessee v. Wendal & and al., 13 U.S. (9 Cranch) 87...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 13; Cranch Volume 9; February Term, 1815; Polk's Lessee v. Wendal & (and) al.

U.S. Reports: Robinson v. Campbell, 16 U.S. (3 Wheat.) 212 (1818)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 16; Wheaton Volume 3; February Term, 1818; Robinson v. Campbell

U.S. Reports: Burton v. Williams, 16 U.S. (3 Wheat.) 529 (1818)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 16; Wheaton Volume 3; February Term, 1818; Burton's Lessee v. Williams et al.

From atop the Indian leap towards the imbankment [sic] which forms the...

Drawing shows a bird's-eye view of the reservoir at Deep Gap, North Carolina, with mountains and forest. Title from item. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 641. (DLC/PP-1992:217.12). Forms part of: John Ru... more

This plate of the town of Fayetteville North Carolina, so called in ho...

Oriented with north to the upper left. Shows street names, natural features, properties, and town boundary line. Robert H.B. Brazier was probably the cartographer for this map (from Dictionary of North Carolina... more

U.S. Reports: Blunt's Lessee v. Smith, 20 U.S. (7 Wheat.) 248 (1822)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 20; Wheaton Volume 7; February Term, 1822; Blunt's Lessee v. Smith and others

Mr. Potter's appeal to the Citizens of Nash, Franklin, Warren and Gran...

U.S. Reports: Ross v. McLung, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 283 (1832)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 31; Peters Volume 6; January Term, 1832; David Ross, Plaintiff in Error v. Charles McLung, Defendant in Error

U.S. Reports: Kirkman v. Hamilton and Others, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 20 (183...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 31; Peters Volume 6; January Term, 1832; Thomas Kirkman, Junior, Plaintiff v. John W. Hamilton and others, Defendants

A new map of the state of North Carolina /

"Entered according to Act of Conress in the year 1[?] by John Mac Rae in the clerks office of the District of North Carolina." Prime Meridian: Washington. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site... more

U.S. Reports: United States v. Mills, 32 U.S. (7 Pet.) 138 (1833)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 32; Peters Volume 7; January Term, 1833; United States, v. John B. Mills, The

Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate s...

Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and p... more

Remarks of Mr, Mangum of North Carolina, in the Senate of the United S...

Map of property belonging to the Deep River Gold Mining Company : Ashe...

Shows a gold mining operations in the Ashboro area of North Carolina in the 1830s including individual buidlings and gold vein locations. Accompanied by a letter. Available also through the Library of Congress ... more

Scene in Washington. Sunday Feby. 25. 1838

A caricature of James Watson Webb, prominent Whig editor of the "Morning Courier and New York Enquirer." Webb is shown parading, armed to the teeth, along Pennsylvania Avenue. He carries a sword cane, a musket,... more

A Chart of the entrance of Cape Fear River

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes "Tide Scale at Smithville." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC... more

Map of North and South Carolina exhibiting the post offices post roads...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... more

[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to ...

Whig Senator from North Carolina, 1846-1855; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841.

Summer arrangement! Daily line to the South carrying the great central...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 30, Folder 27.

Map of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad from Portsmouth, Va. to Weldon,...

Outline map showing area from Pottsville, Pa., to Macon, Ga. [From published bibliography] Scale ca. 1:3,250,000. LC Railroad maps, 557 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.... more

Now and then: or how to meet an old friend with a new face

Peter Smith (pseudonym for N.C.). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4904

Railroads in Virginia and part of North Carolina, drawn and engraved f...

Shows rail connections between Harpers Ferry and Winchester, Acquia Creek to Rocky Mount and Huntsville, N.C., and a line from Gosport to Newsons Depot.

Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate. 17th April 1850

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the moment during the heated debate in the Senate over the admission of California as a free state when Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote drew a pistol on Thomas Har... more

Map of the western railroads tributary to Philadelphia, with their riv...

Covers area from Jefferson City, Mo., to New Haven, Conn., and from Oswego, N.Y., to Blakely, N.C. Scale ca. 1:2,200,000. LC Railroad maps, 80 Description derived from published bibliography. Shows "Roads tribu... more

Loco Foco hunters treeing a candidate

A satire on the Democrats' or "Loco Focos'" 1852 pursuit of Franklin Pierce for the presidential nomination. At the foot of the White Mountains in the "Dismal Swamp," an immense, swampy region of North Carolina... more

A new map of Nth. Carolina : with its canals, roads & distances from p...

Relief shown by contours. Prime meridian: Washington. Cover title "N. Carolina" with "Population of North Carolina by Counties, in 1850" pasted on verso of front cover. "Entered according to Act of Congress in ... more

Map and profile of the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road with its Warren...

Printed topographic strip map with manuscript annotations to show the geologic structure along the route of the railroad. The Alexandria and the Chesapeake and Ohio canals and stage stable for horses used on th... more

A new map of the state of North Carolina : constructed from actual sur...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, churches, mills, principal roads, plank roads, railroads, gold mines, and natural features. Prime meridian: Washington. "Published under the patrona... more

Hon. Thos. Ruffin of N.C.

Hon. J.A. Gilmer of N.C.

Hon. Edward Stanly of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. F.B. Craige of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. Thos. Ruffin of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. P.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954.... more

Hon. Thos. Ruffin of N.C.

Hon. J.A. Gilmer of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. Edward Stanly of N.C.

Hon. J.A. Gilmer of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. J.A. Gilmer of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. F.B. Craige of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. Emerson Etheridge

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. M.C. Tenn.; Born N.C. 1819; Died 1902; member State H. of R. 1843 to 1841; Wig in Cong. 1853-57; again 1859-61; Clerk National H. of R. 1861-63; Member Stat... more

Hon. Edward Stanly of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. F.B. Craige of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more

Hon. Thos. Ruffin of N.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... more