P56: Catherine and Robert Yates Collection on Chadbourn, North Carolina

Extent: 140 items

Collection Description: This collection consists primarily of photographs of Chadbourn, North Carolina, around the turn of the twentieth century. The majority of the images are photographic post cards, but the collection also includes several mounted enlargements. Following the container list is list of Subjects Headings for topics represented in the collection. More detailed descriptions and xerographic photocopies of all of the images are filed in Box 3 of the collection.

Container List

Box 1

Folder 1

• Truckers at Bank of Chadbourn cashing checks for strawberries sold to shippers
• Columbus County Courthouse prior to 1912, Whiteville, NC
• Picking strawberries
• Front Street
• Loading strawberries
• Virginia Building, Jamestown Exposition
• North Brown Street
• South Brown Street
• The Brown Hotel
• West Railroad Avenue, E. R. Bailey Drug Company
• Britt Hardware and Brown Drug Store, 1911

Folder 2

• Strawberry line on North Brown Street after 1920
• Washington Avenue School House
• Winnie Covington Thompson feeding chickens, ca. 1910
• First Chadbourn High School building, 1904
• Entrance, Chadbourn Memorial Cemetery
• Chadbourn Methodist Church
• Chadbourn Baptist Church
• Cottages, Boardman, NC
• Chadbourn Presbyterian Church
• Broadway School
• Brown Street looking south

Folder 3

• Chadbourn Fruit and Produce Exchange
• Mule-drawn reaper and binder (Sunny South Colony)
• Independent Ice Company of Wilmington, NC, South Tabor City Road, 1908
• Atlantic Coast Line locomotive
• Second Chadbourn High School building
• East First Avenue, ca. 1904
• Independent Ice Company of Wilmington, NC, South Tabor City Road, 1908
• First air shipment of strawberries
• J. A. Brown Mercantile and office, East Railroad Avenue
• Strawberry auction market
• Atlantic Coast Line Passenger Depot
• Picking Strawberries
• Packing Strawberries

Folder 4

• Bailey Drug Store, ca. 1904
• Strawberry auction market line after 1910
• Independent Ice Company
• West Railroad Avenue
• Demolishing the second Chadbourn High School building, ca. 1923
• Aunt Kit (custodian at ACL Passenger Depot) and Beef Hughes (telegraph operator)
• Charles Clark (mail carrier)
• Selling strawberries
• The Grove bandstand

Folder 5

• East Railroad Avenue
• Washington Avenue School
• Chadbourn Transfer Shed
• Jim Smith's Store, Grist, NC
• Long-distance flight of strawberries
• William Harmon Chadbourn
• Train engine "The Sho Fly"

Folder 6

• Crate factory
• Post 139 American Legion
• East Railroad Avenue
• Strawberry auction market
• Packing strawberries
• Strawberries

Folder 7

• Woman and infant and other family pictures (Wilkes family)
• Strawberry buyers beside the Brown Hotel
• Outing at Lake Waccamaw
• Wilkes Hotel
• North Brown Street looking north

Folder 8

• E. A. Perry, Strawberry Commission merchant
• Independent Ice Company
• James H. Chadbourn's house
• Unidentified portraits
• Cotton gin
• Brown Mercantile
• Government Experiment Station
• Strawberry field
• Strawberry auction market

Folder 9

• Windmill
• Cart pulled by goat
• Students of Broadway School
• First Chadbourn High School building

Folder 10

• Sunny South Excursion Train, 1895

Folder 11

• Interior of J. R. Blake General Store
• Maids and Matrons Club
• Boat outing
• Picking strawberries
• "Chadbourn's first fair"

Folder 12

• Building on East Strawberry Boulevard (once the Ford dealership)
• Boat outing
• Beach outing

Folder 13

• House on West Railroad Avenue, ca. 1904

Box 2

Folder 14

• Picnic at Page's Mill, ca. 1904
• Bailey Drug Store, ca. 1904
• Interior of Brown Mercantile Company
• Interior of Bailey Drug Store, ca. 1904

Folder 15

• Group of people on porch of Brown Mercantile, ca. 1910
• Strawberry buyers
• Unidentified large group of men

Folder 16

• Students in front of second Chadbourn High School building

Folder 17

• The Bohemian Girl pleasure boat on Lake Waccamaw
• Saw mill and crate factory
• Workers in front of saw mill and crate factory, ca. 1899

Folder 18

• North Brown Street looking south during "The Big Sale," ca. 1906
• J. A. Brown General Store and office during "Greatest 30 Day Sale Ever Put on in Chadbourn..."

Folder 19

• Sunny South Colonist Martin Francis Leonhardt standing in his field on Washington Avenue
• Strawberry field in the Sunny South Colony on Washington Avenue, ca. 1900
Lady Thompson variety strawberry

Folder 20

• Dumping strawberries in the White Marsh, east of Whiteville, NC, April, 1905

Folder 21

• Boardman, NC, and Chadbourn baseball teams, July 10, 1903
• The Silver Coronet Band, 1897

Box 3

Folder 22

• The berry market and Plate Ice Company, 1898

Folder 23

• Independent Ice Company - man loading ice into boxcar, ca. 1908

Subject Headings

• Airplanes
• Agricultural laborers
• Agricultural machinery & implements
• Automobiles
• Bands
• Bandstands
• Banks
• Baseball
• Beaches
• Bicycles
• Boats
• Business districts
• Carriages & coaches
• Carts & wagons
• Cemeteries
• Chickens
• Children
• Churches
• Clubs
• Courthouses
• Drug stores
• Exhibition buildings
• Families
• Farmers
• General stores
• Hardware stores
• Horses
• Hotels
• Houses
• Ice industry
• Lakes
• Letter carriers
• Markets
• Mules
• Parades & processions
• Picnics
• Railroad crossings
• Railroad locomotives
• Railroad refrigerator cars
• Railroad stations
• Schools
• Shipping
• Strawberries
• Streets
• Students
• Windmills

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