Finding Aid of the Delores Dean Photograph Collection, PHC.131

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Finding Aid of the Delores Dean Photograph Collection, PHC.131

Abstract

Two sepia photographs measuring 8 3/4" x 6 1/2" (cardboard backing measures 10" x 12") depicting the interior of the Star Warehouse (tobacco) in Wendell, North Carolina c. 1920-1930.

Descriptive Summary

Title
Delores Dean Photograph Collection
Call Number
PHC.131
Creator
Dean, Delores
Date
ca. 1920 - 1930
Extent
Language
English
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Access Restrictions

    Available for research.

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    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.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], PhC.131, Delores Dean Photograph Collection, State Archives of North Carolina; Raleigh, NC.

    Collection Overview

    Two sepia photographs measuring 8 3/4" x 6 1/2" (cardboard backing measures 10" x 12") depicting the interior of the Star Warehouse (tobacco) in Wendell, North Carolina c. 1920-1930. Photos depict tobacco auctioning, men milling around inside the warehouse, bunches of tobacco on floor in foreground, advertising signs hanging from rafters overhead advertising Piedmont Cigarettes and the Wendell Supply Company among other things. Men shown are Norman Dean, S. T. Wiggins, William Henderson, W. J. Collie, C. W. Robertson, Fed May, J. C. Collins, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Hutchins. Copies of these two photographs are in the General Negative Collection as N.2008.8.34-35.

    Arrangement Note

    By call number, filed in numbers box with other smaller photo collections

    Biographical/Historical note

    Star Warehouse was one of the oldest tobacco warehouses in Wake County and had advertising murals all over its walls as well as ten inch wide plank floors. According the donor of these photos, Mrs. Norman (Dolores) Dean of Wendell, NC, when the building was torn down in 1979, Crazy Zack's, a club/bar/restaurant across from Meredith College on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, purchased the walls with the murals and floors intact, moved them to Raleigh, and used them in the club. The murals depicted Cooks hardware, Brantleys Drug Store and Bucks Service Station according to Kent Henderson who tore the warehouse building down and removed the murals. The back side of the warehouse was constructed from cypress boards cut from the farm of Haywood Scarboro located on Buffalo Creek on Highway 64. Crazy Zack's was torn down in the 1990's and it is not known what became of the murals at that time.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Collie, W. J.
  2. Collins, J. C.
  3. Dean, Amos
  4. Dean, Norman
  5. Henderson, William
  6. Hobgood, Charlie
  7. May, Fred
  8. Robertson, C. W.
  9. Scarboro, Haywood
  10. Wiggins, S. T.
  11. Harris Family
  12. Hutchins family
  13. Crazy Zack's
  14. Piedmont Cigarettes
  15. Star Warehouse
  16. Wendell Supply Company
  17. Tobacco
  18. Wake County (N.C.)
  19. Wendell (N.C.)

    20. Acquisitions Information

    Donated to the State Archives of North Carolina 26 July 2008 by Mrs. Norman (Delores) Dean of Wendell, NC.

    Processing Information

  20. Processed by Kim Cumber, September 2008
  21. Encoded by Kim Cumber, September 2008