P45: America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Collection

Provenance: Accession numbers 30193–30208 (16 photographs), gift, William S. Powell; accession numbers 30344 (one photograph) and 30511 (14 post cards, 118 color slides, 54 color prints, 11 black-and-white prints, 7 color negatives, and 1 copy of the cartoon "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly), gifts by John D. Neville, Richmond, Virginia.

Extent: 223 items

Format(s): post cards, 35mm color slides, color photographs, black-and-white photographs, 35mm color negatives, and a copy of cartoon

Collection Description: This is an artificial collection of photographs and printed material that documents the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the late sixteenth century English voyages to Roanoke Island, North Carolina. The subject matter includes people, structures, and events. Within the collection are photographs of dignitaries including Sam Ragan, James B. Hunt Jr., James Martin, and Princess Anne. Photographs document events at the Fort Raleigh and Elizabeth II State Historic Sites in Dare County, North Carolina as well as a ceremony in Plymouth, England. Most items date from 1987.

Most of the 35mm color slides bear the stamp, "Thomas L. Norris, Jr. 2700 Shelley Road, Raleigh, N. C. 27612." One transparency is a commercially published slide of Sherborne Castle marked "ELFINCOLOR ORIGINAL." Eight slides are not stamped.

Two separate folders separate those photographs made in England from those made in North Carolina.

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