R. Beverly R. Webb Photograph Collection, PHC.19

[Identification of item], PhC.19, R. Beverly R. Webb Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.

The collection consists of portraits of individuals from throughout North Carolina (many of Raleigh) and other states, as well as two from Shanghai, China. The 57 identified portraits are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the subject. There are 26 photographs of unidentified individuals arranged at the end of the collection. Included in the collection are such prominent North Carolina names as Alderman, Badger, Fowle, Haywood, Holt, Latta, Marshall, Stagg, Heck, Pou, Boylan, Ruffin and others. This collection would be of special interest to those researching North Carolina photographers during the late 19th century. The following North Carolina photographers are represented in the collection; E. A. Alderman (Greensboro), Henry Bumgarten (Charlotte), Henry Cronenberg (Wilmington), A. J. Gallagher (Rutherfordton), R. H. Maynard (Hickory), George W. Swift (Raleigh), James H. Van Ness (Charlotte), Cyrus P. Wharton (Raleigh), Yates (Wilmington), William H. Zoeller (Elizabeth City). This collection would also be of special interest to those conducting genealogical research on influential Raleigh, NC families in the 1880s and 90s in particular.

This collection consists mainly of cabinet cards, a form of portraiture photography seen from the mid 1860s to the 1920s with the height of popularity being approximately 1870-1900. Many, if not most, of these photographs have the name and location of the photography studio responsible for its production printed on lower edge and/or back of the print. Traditionally, a cabinet card is a 4"x5.5" albumen or silver gelatin photographic print mounted on a 4.25"x6.5"piece of pre-printed, and later embossed, card stock. These cards were given to friends and family and often displayed in cabinets.


Highlights of this collection include:
PhC.19.58-A portrait of Dallas T. Ward, the man responsible for making and delivering the truce flag for the surrender of Raleigh to General Sherman in April of 1865.
PhC.19.51-An 1890s portrait of Mattie Pace Fuller (1879-1953) and Maj. William (Willie) Heck Pace (1883-1940). Grandchildren of Jonathan McGee and Mattie Anna Callendine Heck and born in the Heck-Andrews House located at 309 N. Blount Street in Raleigh, NC.
PhC.19.04-Small diamond shaped card photograph of Miss Josephine Englehard (Boylan) Van Patten at age 4-5, granddaughter of William Montfort Boylan (1852-1915), builder of Montfort Hall in Raleigh. Her father was partly responsible for the selling of the large parcel of land that would later become Boylan Heights, an early subdivision in Raleigh, NC.
PhC.19.02-Portrait of Sherwood Badger (18 September 1844 - 22 May 1912) born to Delia and George Edmund Badger -- U.S. senator and secretary of the Navy.
-Many well preserved, dated cabinet cards from the late 1880s to middle 1890s. This collection can be a reliable resource in dating other undated cabinet cards and card photographs.

This collection is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the subject. Unidentified individuals are located at the back.

Richard Beverly Raney "Bev" Webb was born in Raleigh on Aug. 8, 1934, the second son of James and Margaret Denson Raney Webb of Hillsborough. He was educated at public schools in Hillsborough and graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Orange, Va., cum laude. He received his BA degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1956 and his LLB from Yale University in 1959. At Chapel Hill, he was a member of The Order of the Golden Fleece, The Order of the Holy Grail, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega and Aardvark Abbey and was elected Permanent Class President.

After graduating from law school, he served with the North Carolina Air National Guard and joined the Charlotte Law firm of Lassiter, Moore and Van Allen (now Moore and Van Allen) in 1960, where he served as partner in the commercial real estate section of the firm until his retirement. While in Charlotte, Webb was a long-time member and then-chair of the board of directors of the Charlotte Symphony, and a member of the Board of the Charlotte Nature Museum (Discovery Place).

Webb was married to the former Katherine Forsyth Wolf (the artist and creator K. Wolf-Webb), had three sons Richard B. R. (Bo) Webb. Jr., John Bradley Howard (John) Webb of Fredericksburg, Va., and James (Jim) Webb, II of Washington, D.C.

In 1989, Webb moved to Hillsborough, where he continued his practice in the Raleigh and Durham offices of the law firm and where his wife Katherine, created, developed and managed the Hillsborough House Inn, a bed and breakfast inn, in their home, an old family house known as Belle Vue.

Webb's interest in history, families and architecture merged into his long-time work with historic preservation. In Charlotte, he was a member and then-chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Preservation Commission. He was for many years a member and then chair of the Board of Preservation North Carolina. He was also a member of numerous preservation organizations and projects in Hillsborough, Durham, Edenton and Wilmington, including the Hillsborough Preservation Society and the first Board of the Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington and a founder of the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough.

He was particularly pleased with being able, through the generosity of the James M. Johnston Trust and others, to acquire the race track and adjoining lands in Hillsborough from the families who had developed there the first dirt stock car racing track. This land was conveyed to Preservation North Carolina and subsequently to Mr. Richard Jenrette to become the view shed and a part of Ayr Mount in Hillsborough.

Webb was a former member of the Charlotte Country Club and was also a member of The Society of Cincinnati and the North Caroliniana Society, and he was recently appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

(Source: News of Orange County, August 22, 2012, obituary for R. Beverly R. Webb, http://www.newsoforange.com/obituaries/article_4134d986-c385-5346-9d97-bcb95e57467f.html)

Collection Contents

Alderman, E. A.

Averett, Mamie

Badger, Annie

Badger, Sherwood

Baumgarten, H.

Bowles, Gertrude H.

Boylan, William

Boylan, William

Brown, Joseph

Bruner, Thomas K.

Butt, Maude M. (Marshall)

Callaway, Ed C.

Cowan, Mary Loudon (London)

Davidson, Sarah Lindsay Carter

Davidson, Theodore F.

Day, Jennie

Dewey, Bessie L.

Dewey, Edwin Mial

Eberhardt, T. L

Englehard, E. B.

Englehard, Rosabella

Everitt, David E.

Faison, Anne (Smith)

Faison, Pauline

Foster, O. H.

Fowle, Mattie B.

Fuller, Mollie

Gallagher, A. J.

Gilliam, Charlie McAlister

Gilliam, Mary Anderson

Gould, Charles Winthrop

Graham, Bessie

Graham, Susan Moses

Haywood, Francis Philomen

Hines, Anna Anthalia

Hines, George E.

Hines, Lucy

Hines, Rufus Dixon

Holt, E. C.

Holt, Walter

Johnson, Julius Rex

Jordan, C. H.

Laird, Cora Holt

Laird, Edward Chambers

Latta, Chester

Latta, Hal

Lee, Reg A.

Lindsay, Jessie

Marks, Flora

Marshall, M. M.

Marshall, M. M.

Masters, Ella

Maynard, R. H.

McKee, James

McQueen, Henry C.

Miller, A. A.

Moses, Carrie D.

Moses, Herbert

Pou, Martha Temperance

Pou, Mattie

Rees, James Henry

Roberts, Nan

Ruffin, Mary

Savage, Maude Lynch

Savage, William Edward

Simmons, C. B.

Stagg, J. E.

Van Ness, J. H.

Van Patten, Josephine (Boylan) Englehard

Vasor, Ruby

Abbott, W. R.

Ward, Dallas T.

Andrews Gallery

Campbell Photo Studio

Caraleigh Mills

Citizens National Bank

Cronenberg Photo Studio

J. A. Hayden Photo Studio

J. P. Phelps Photo Studio

Jackson & Co. Photo Studio

Sarony Photo Studio

Satow Photo Studio

Swift Photo Studio

Wharton Photo Studio

Yates and Alderman Photo Studio

Cabinet cards

Card Photograph

Donated by R. Beverly R. Webb, Moore and Van Allen, 3000 NCNB Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina on 21 June 1982 and accessioned by the archives on 21 June 1982.

Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, November 1990/Ian F.G. Dunn, May 2015