The photographic negatives are arranged geographically (east to west) and by subject.

Available for research.

Copyright is retained by the authors of these materials, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Individual researchers are responsible for using these materials in conformance with copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.

Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, August, 1999

Encoded Stephen E. Massengill

Encoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January, 2012

The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts researches and exhibits the regional decorative arts of the early South. The museum's collections include furniture, paintings, textiles, ceramics, and metal work from several southeastern states.

[Identification of item], PhC.79.1, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.

The collection was donated to the Division of Archives and History in January, 1997 by MESDA, P. O. Box 10310, 924 South Main Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27108-0310. Bradford L. Rauschenberg of MESDA initially sent the collection to Catherine Bishir, and she forwarded it to the State Archives on February 23, 1998. It was accessioned in September, 1999.

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS)  http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov.

The small collection consists of images of houses, people, and places from the coast to the mountains of North Carolina. A portion of the images are unidentified. The identified ones include, the Palmer Marsh House at Bath, St. Thomas Church at Bath, the Cupola House at Edenton, the Joel Lane House at Raleigh, the Dr. Fabius J. Haywood House at Raleigh, a river baptism, and a train station in western North Carolina. The negatives may have been the work of a woman photographer perhaps Bayard Wootten or Frances Benjamin Johnston.