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- A cafe near the tobacco market, Durham, North Carolina

- A café, whose windows label it as the Farmers Cafe -- Quick Lunch, has separate entrances labeled "White" and "Colored."
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- Street scene near bus station in Durham, North Carolina

- Three white women approach a building with a sign "Southern Dairies Ice Cream." The entrance they are approaching is labeled "White Ladies Only."
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- At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina

- An African American man stands at a bus station beneath a sign reading "Colored Waiting Room."
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- Some of the Founders of Mechanics & Farmers Bank

- Portrait of some of the Founders of Mechanics & Farmers Bank, Durham, NC.
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- Bennett Place
- This is Civil War historic landmark was the location of the largest troop surrender of the Civil War.
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- A kitchen at the Bennett Place in Durham, NC

- This is the kitchen of the Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina. A Civil War reenactor explains the food she has made. Bennett Place was the site where General Joseph E. Johnston and General William T. Sherman met to negotiate to the largest troop surrender...
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- A lemur at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, NC

- This is a lemur at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina.
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- West Point on the Eno
- This park offers environmental and historical programs for K-12 students in beautiful, natural surroundings.
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- Historic Stagville
- Read about the history of the plantation, the Bennehan and Cameron families who owned the plantation, the slave community, the structures on the plantation, and the effect the Civil War had on Stagville Plantation.
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- North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company officers

- North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company officers, Durham, NC. Left to right: A.M. Moore, John M. Avery, John Merrick, Ed Merrick, C.C. Spaulding.
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- The emerald depths of the Eno River in Durham, NC

- This is the Eno River in Eno River State Park in Durham, North Carolina.
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- Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum
- Visit Duke Homestead or take an online tour, which not only features the history of the Duke family, their tobacco endeavors, and their homestead, but also contains a collection of original cigarette commercials and a movie of the tobacco bagging process.
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- Ocean and You Marine Science Education
- Bring the ocean to your classroom and explore marine and environmental education with this innovative program created by an oceanographer and two science educators.
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- The Bonsack machine and labor unrest
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.7
- When the Duke tobacco company adopted the Bonsack machine for rolling cigarettes, workers who had rolled cigarettes by hand were thrown out of work, and their replacements made less money.
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- Dormitory at Trinity College, later moved to Kittrell College

- This is a postcard of North Dormitory (renamed in 1912 for Colonel Alspaugh, then Trinity's oldest living alumnus) on the Trinity College of Duke University. The dorm was deconstructed in 1927 and moved to Kittrell College in Kittrell, North Carolina.
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- Duke Tobacco Factory and Surrounding Buildings

- View of the first Duke factory in Durham, showing factory and warehouse buildings, Duke house, cleared countryside, and railroad tracks passing in front of the factory.
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- Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
- Visit the Nasher Museum of Art to take in the special exhibits as well as the permanent displays of classical antiquities, European medieval art, European and American paintings, African art, and ancient American art.
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- Water Conservation/Public Education Programs
- A wonderful service provided by the city of Durham Water Management Department to inform the community and K-12 students about the importance of conservation of our most important natural resource - water.
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- Footbridge across the Eno River in Eno River State Park

- This is a footbridge across the Eno River in Eno River State Park in Durham, North Carolina.
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- Girl showing off her sewing kit

- A 4-H club girl is seen showing off her sewing kit outside at camp in Durham County, North Carolina. The black and white photograph shows the girl kneeling behind an open sewing kit. The large, flat, wooden box contains narrow shelves on each side. Spools...
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