Nancy Davis Joyner Photograph Collection, PHC.207

Black and white photographic prints mounted on cardboard depicting a variety of scenes in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia (and several are unidentified locations), 1890s-1920s. Specifically there is a view of several women and a little boy on the sidewalk beside the railroad tracks in Mooresville, NC, with a box car, the Mooresville Train Station and downtown Mooresville visible in the background, c.1905 (copied as N.2003.7.5); a view of four men standing outside the Hancock Boarding House in Cheraw, SC, c.1905 (copied as (N.2003.7.6); and a view of Broad Street looking north, Altavista, VA, c.1905. Other photos include an unidentified inn along a railroad track; what appears to be a brick graded school under construction with African American worker standing on the incomplete roofline; winter snow scene in a park (possibly Pullen Park, Raleigh, NC); a snow scene outside a factory of some sort where three men are posing with a snow-covered steam engine; an exterior overall view of a large factory (looks like a typical southern textile mill) with a group of men with mules clearing and grading a plot of land in the foreground; an iron truss railroad bridge over a river with a man standing on it next to an electrical pole, a breakwater made of stones in the foreground; a group of men, most wearing overalls and a few in suits (they look like construction workers and perhaps their supervisors) posing next to and in the windows of what appears to be either a factory or a similar brick building under construction; group of five men in suits standing outside next to a wall of a frame house or building; a man in a suit and derby hat outside a large canvas tent with the flaps open to reveal the words "Panama Duck" stenciled on the inner side of one of the flaps, two cots, a suitcase, and some other bundles are inside the tent, and a railroad track and electrical lines are visible in the background as is the hilly or mountainous terrain (this is clearly one tent among several - stakes and guywires from tents on either side are visible); a view looking down an unpaved street towards a business section of some small town - a shingle hung outside one of the houses on the right side of the road says "Dr. Mason"; a view looking up some railroad tracks at a mining operation in the mountains - two men, several train cars and a steam locomotive are in the shot at ground level and another track that conveyed whatever it was being mined to the building is visible above them on a ridge and shows several gondola cars used to convey ore (or whatever it was being mined); a slightly elevated overall view of Spruce Pine, NC, looking northwest on Locust Street with a steam engine No. 101 with train at the depot, which is on one side of the tracks opposite a row of maybe four businesses on the other side, a crowd of people are visible on and around the tracks and piles of cord wood can be seen in the distance, advertisements for "Mighty Haag's Show" are plastered all over the side of one of the buildings; and another view of Spruce Pine, NC, looking southeast on Locust Street where all the logs are piled showing what appears to be the same crowd of people, the train, and the various businesses and stores and ads for Haag's Show, indicating these last two were taken on the same day.