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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Photographs and Related Materials #P0045, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Accession numbers 30193-30208 (16 photographs), gift of 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 of John D. Neville, Richmond, Va.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: North Carolina Collection, 1997; Tracy M. Jackson, 2011

Encoded by: Tracy M. Jackson, August 2010, June 2011

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Anne, Princess Royal, daughter of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1950-
• Dare County (N.C.)--History.
• Hunt, James B., 1937-
• Martin, James G. (James Grubbs), 1935-
• North Carolina--History.
• North Carolina--Photographs.
• Photographs.
• Ragan, Sam, 1915-1996.
• Roanoke Colony--Centennial celebrations, etc.

• America's Four Hundredth Anniversary Committee: Final Report in the North Carolina Collection (Call number: C906 A512n)
• Four Hundredth Anniversary Handbook in the North Carolina Collection (Call number: Cp906 A512f)

Roanoke Island in Dare County, N.C., was first settled by English colonists in 1587. The colony was led by John White and was the location of the first birth of an English child in America, Virginia Dare. In late 1587, John White returned to England for supplies and did not return for three years. Upon his return, it was discovered that the colony had been abandoned and no trace of the colonists remained, giving rise to the name "the Lost Colony."

Between 1984 and 1987, celebrations were held in Roanoke, N.C., to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the English settlement of America.

The collection contains photographs and printed material documenting the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the late-16th-century English voyages to Roanoke Island, N.C. Photographs document events at the Fort Raleigh and Elizabeth II state historic sites in Dare County, N.C., as well as a ceremony in Plymouth, England. People appearing in the photographs include journalists Sam Ragan, North Carolina governors James B. Hunt and James G. Martin, and Princess Anne of Great Britain.

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.