Durham County Library North Carolina Collection
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 3–12
- Subjects
- social studies (African Americans, North Carolina, United States history)
- Provider
- Durham County Library
Legal
This catalog record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license applies to the content of this page only and does not apply to the referenced website.
While the website for the Durham County Library North Carolina Collection mainly provides information about the collection and its history, historic sites, and the history of public libraries in Durham, it does include a collection of 1,400 historic photographs that can be searched by thumbnails or keywords. These images of historical Durham range from 1860 to 1975.
“The primary mission of the Durham County Library North Carolina Collection is to collect materials concerning the city and county of Durham. However, this collection also has a wealth of materials for people interested in researching North Carolina related topics. The North Carolina Collection consists of books, journals, newspapers, microfilm, the Durham Historic Photographic Archives, North Carolina and Durham vertical files, small manuscripts collections, and the Durham County Library Archives. More than 16,000 volumes (circulating and non-circulating) form the core of the North Carolina Collection including works on local history and genealogy, by North Carolina authors, fiction with a North Carolina setting, non-fiction dealing with the history or containing factual information about North Carolina, and books with a Durham imprint.”
