North Carolina Collection

John Sevier Hand-colored woodcut of a portrait

First Maryland Regiment retaking British field artillery at Guilford Court House, North Carolina, American Revolution. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

Roanoke Colony settlers arrive, 1587
English colonists landing on Roanoke Island, 1587. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Shaman of Native Americans of colonial Virginia
Medicine-man on the coast of Virginia/North Carolina, observed by Raleighs Colony, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut of 16th-century John White drawing

Carolina coast map, 1600s
Map of the Carolinas, showing Charleston and the Outer Banks, north on the right. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 17th-century map

Native American man and woman eating from a basket, Raleighs Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

Slave cabins on a plantation
Row of slave cabins on a southern plantation, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Freed slaves escaping after the Emancipation Proclamation
Freed Negroes coming into the Union lines at Newbern NC, after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Plantation slaves singing and clapping
Group of slaves singing on a southern plantation, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration based on a Boston teachers description

Slaves husking corn on a plantation
Slaves social gathering at a plantation corn-husking, 1800s. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

Black family murdered by the KKK, 1870s
Ku Klux Klan members shooting a black family in their cabin, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

KKK murderers visit a black familys cabin, 1800s
Ku Klux Klansmen wrapped in sheets on a murderous raid in a black familys cabin, late 1800s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Slaves planting rice in North Carolina, 1800s
Planting rice on a North Carolina plantation, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Slave cabin on a southern plantation
Slave family outside their cabin on a southern plantation. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

John Archdale, colonial governor in the Carolinas
Governor Archdales address to the colonial Carolina Assembly, 1696. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Carolina colonial seal
Seal of the Lord Proprietors of Carolina Colony. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction

Colonists arriving on Roanoke Island, 1585
Landing of first English settlers on Roanoke Island under Richard Grenville, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Disappearance of Roanoke Island colonists, 1591
Return of Governor John White to find Roanoke colonists have vanished, 1591. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Colonial sailors fighting pirates aboard ship
Fighting off Carolina pirates in colonial days. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Sheep brought home to a settlers log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Pioneer woman getting water from a well near her log cabin, Carolina. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Roakoke Colony alarm, 1580s
Messenger warning of a Native American attack, Roanoke Colony, late 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Native Americans around a fire on the Virginia/North Carolina coast, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of an illustration from Hariot

Pomelock, a Native American village enclosed with palisades, Virginia /Carolina Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

Aged Native American man in his winter garment, Raleighs Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

Ceremonial dance of the Carolina Indians, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

Native American village and gardens of Secotan, North Carolina, then in Virginia Colony, 1600s. Hand-colored woodcut of a John White illustration

John Whites map of the Virginia and Carolina coast where Roanoke Colony was located, 1500s. Hand-colored 19th-century reproduction engraving

Virginia and North Carolina coast, 1500s
John Whites map of the Atlantic coast of North Carolina and Virginia, 1500s. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction

De Soto greeted by native Cofitachequi queen in Carolina, circa 1540. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cookpot of Virginia natives, 1500s
Native American cookpot, Virginia Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut of a 16th-century John White drawing

Native American way of cooking fish, Virginia Colony, 1585. Hand-colored woodcut reproducgtion of a John White illustration

Ironclad " Merrimac, " cheered by the Confederate battery on Craney Island, embarking to attack the Union fleet, 1862. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Sinking of the ironclad USS Monitor in a gale off North Carolina, 1862, crew making for the USS Rhode Island. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Woman urging a slave to escape
Plantation school teacher urging a slave to escape to freedom, 1850s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Former slaves meeting with federal officials in North Carolina, 1866
General Stedman and other officials meeting with freed slaves near Trent River, North Carolina, 1866. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Lord Proprietors of Carolina Colony
Signatures of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina Colony, 1600s. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

Governor White finds Roanoke Colony abandoned, 1591
Roanoke Colony abandoned without a trace except " Croatoan" carved on a tree, 1591. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Virginia Dare baptised on Roakoke Island, 1585
Baptism of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, Roanoke Colony, 1587. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

John Sevier rescued from North Carolina imprisonment during the American Revolution Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle Illustration

Royal Governor Tryon confronting the angry colonial Regulators in North Carolina, 1771. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Darley

Capitol of North Carolina, 1850s
North Carolina state capitol at Raleigh in the 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dried food storage on a pioneer farm, Great Smoky Mountains
Provisions drying at restored farmstead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Oconaluftee, North Carolina. Photograph

Carolina colonists fleeing in canoes from a Native American attack. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Colonists conflict with Native Americans on the Georgia and Carolina frontier, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

An idyllic log cabin home in North Carolina. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Tomb of embalmed Cherokee chiefs, their flesh and bones dried and preserved, North Carolina, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

Native American woman of the Virginia coast
One of the wives of Wyngyno, a Native American chief, Raleighs Colony, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 16th-century John White drawing

Cherokees in modern dress, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

" The flyer" - a Native American shaman in Raleighs Colony, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

The way the Indians fished, using spears and dugout canoes, Virginia Colony, 1500s Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a John White illustration

A turpentine distillery in North Carolina, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sir Walter Raleigh. Hand-colored engraving of a painting

Boy keeping warm in a slave cabin
Young black boy in his bare slave cabin, US South. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Colonial Regulators capturing a British supply wagon of gunpowder in North Carolina, 1770s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Declaration of Independence cheered in North Carolina, 1776
North Carolina colonials celebrating news of the Declaration of Independence, 1776. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Royal Governor Tryon angrily trying to suppress the colonial Regulators revolt, North Carolina, 1771. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Darley

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