LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Classroom » Multimedia

Alamance Plaid

About this photograph

Provider
Alamance County Historical Museum
Date created
Unknown
License
This photograph copyright ©2009. All Rights Reserved

See this photograph in context

  • Antebellum North Carolina: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the antebellum period (1830–1860). Topics include slavery, daily life, agriculture, industry, technology, and the arts, as well as the events leading to secession and civil war. (Page 4.7)

Related media

Learn more

In the classroom

  • See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
Photograph of Alamance Plaid.

Sizes available: 279×1033 | 140×444

Alamance Plaid was one of the signature fabrics produced by Alamance Cotton Mill in Alamance County, North Carolina. The plaid was one of the first colored fabrics produced commercially in the Southern United States. This example is from the first generation of Alamance Plaid, manufactured in 1853, the first year the plaid was produced.