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Creator: William Jasper Stimson and Benjamin Alston Stimson
Extent: 339 items in the original gift
Format(s): Black-and-white photographs and negatives.
Access: Not restricted.
Usage Restrictions:The current policies of the North Carolina Collection define the conditions of use.
Provenance: Gift, Mrs. Betty Stimson Boyd, Statesville, N.C., 1995; accession no. 30668.
Collection Description: The William Jasper Stimson and Benjamin Alston Stimson Collection comprises negatives and photographs made by William Jasper Stimson (Nov. 27, 1860-Oct. 26, 1929), and his son, Benjamin Alston Stimson (Sept. 20, 1893-March 19, 1969), professional photographers of Statesville, N.C. The photographs span the period ca. 1900 through ca. 1955. Included are portraits and scenes in and around Statesville, including Mitchell College.
Also in the collection are photographs made by Benjamin Alston Stimson when he worked in the x-ray department of United States Army Base Hospital 45 at Autun, France in 1918. These photographs include views of soldiers, the hospital, town, and military facilities. Some of the images appear in a book about the hospital titled History of United States Army Base Hospital No. 45 in the Great War, published in 1924 by the William Byrd Press in Richmond, Virginia.
Series 1—World War I Photographic Prints
95 photographic prints: 87 images—20 vintage prints embossed "Stimson Studio Statesville, N.C."—and 75 modern prints made from original negatives. (8 images have both a vintage print and a modern print.)
Unidentified—includes a photograph of a toddler and an African American family.
Anderson, Thomas
Aunt Adeline [African American]
Boyd, Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Stimson
Wall, Nancy Anderson Stimson
McElwee, Ann, Mary, and Estelle
Phifer, W. S.
Raynall, Charles E.
Rhine, J. B.
Schuaf, Bob
Scott, J. A.
Stimson, Benjamin Alston Sr.
Stimson, Benjamin Alston Jr.
Stimson, William Jasper
Swalin, Benjamin
Thompson, D. Matt
Weede, Robert
Wootten, Bayard
Statesville—Banks
Statesville—Boy Scouts
Statesville—Bunch Furniture Company
Statesville—Churches
Statesville—Cotton Gins
Statesville—Fire Department
Statesville—Flour Mill
Statesville—Hinkle-Craig Livery Stable
Statesville—Houses
Statesville—Kiwanis Club
Statesville—Library
Statesville—Mitchell College
Statesville—Schools
Statesville—Streets
Statesville—Theaters
Statesville—Wallace Brothers Botanical Company
Statesville—World War I
Dr. Scott in his office at Mitchell College in Statesville, January 1903.
Exterior of the First National Bank in Statesville, ca. 1928.
Watts and White Feed and Machinery Company in Statesville, 1941.
Exterior of a department store in Statesville with signs advertising a sale, with people milling around the front of the building.
Exterior of the Hotel Iredell in Statesville. A horse-drawn coach is parked in front of the hotel.
Group of ten teenage boys dressed in suits and holding a banner reading “Statesville.”
Stimson house at the corner of Brad and Elm Streets in Statesville.
Front exterior of the main building at Mitchell College in Statesville (2 prints).
Alexander County—Taylorsville—Bank Robbery
Wheat Thrashing
Kestler Railroad Bridge, 1916
Iredell County - Flood, 1916
Landscapes
(89 negatives)
Negatives (4) made in France, ca. 1918.
Dr. Scott in his office at Mitchell College in Statesville, January 1903. (1 negative)
Exterior of the Hotel Iredell in Statesville. (1 negative)
Unidentified soldier in uniform. (1 negative)
Mitchell College—Athletics (7 negatives)
Mitchell College—Exterior of the Main Building (1 negative)
Mitchell College—Interior of the Main Building [?] (1 negative)
Mitchell College—May Day 1946 (17 negatives)
Mitchell College—Music (3 negatives)
Mitchell College—Students (21 negatives)
Mitchell College—Students (1 negative)
Mitchell College—Wedding (3 negatives)
Statesville—Mitchell College function [?] at the First Presbyterian Church (1 negative)
Statesville—Opening of a Texaco Service Station, May 1955 (4 negatives)
Statesville—Exterior of the First National Bank, ca. 1928 (1 negative)
Statesville—Watts and White Feed and Machinery Company, 1941 (1 negative)
Statesville—Exterior of a department store with signs advertising a sale. (1 negative)
Mitchell College—Employees (2 negatives)
Mitchell College—Exterior views (3 negatives)
Mitchell College—Interior views (10 negatives)
Mitchell College—Likeness of Elisha Mitchell [?] (1 negative)
Mitchell College—Shearer Music Hall (stage) [Main Building] (1 negative)
Mitchell College—Shearer Music Hall (stage with pipe organ) [Main Building] (1 negative)
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