Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The real photo postcard from ca. 1906 shows a wooden float (or pontoon) bridge in Hertford, NC. This bridge was built in 1784, and was attached at one end but only tethered at the other. If a boat needed to pass through, they would untie the bridge, let it float down river so the boat [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on February 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We’ve recently extracted from an in-house database more than 4,500 records representing approximately 19,000 negatives made by Roland Giduz in and around Chapel Hill between 1947 and 1970, and have made that information available through a new finding aid. Prior to this improved finding aid, researchers only had this degree of subject access by working [...]
