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Home / Artifacts / Curation Section
The Curation Section acquires, documents, and interprets artifacts; conducts research; and develops exhibitions. The staff strives to provide a rewarding museum experience through which visitors explore and understand the past and reflect on their own lives.
The Curation Section includes specialists in several categories:
 Agriculture and Industry
Community History
Costume and Textiles
Furnishings and Decorative Arts
Military History
Political and Socioeconomic History
Sports
Postcard of Old Alamance Mill in Burlington |
Home-manufactured antebellum wooden plow with iron cutter blade, possibly made in Moore County, ca. 1840.
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Photograph of African American baptism service in Wake County, ca. 1903. |
Pine needle serving basket made by Loretta Oxendine, Lumbee Indian basketmaker from Pembroke.
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Ballgame (stickball) sticks used in 1916, by Robert Crowe, Cherokee Indian from Soco.
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Hand-painted cotton child's dress and jacket brought through the Wilmington Blockade in 1864. |
Red Thai silk ball gown designed by Denis Toney and worn by NC first lady Dorothey McAvlay Martin to the Inaugural Ball.
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Theorum (stencil) painting on velvet made by Annie McIntyre in 1765 in Fayetteville.
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Bureau, washstand, and rocking chair, ca. 1855-1860. made by Thomas Day for Governor David S. Reid. |
Silver service made by silversmith Thomas William Brown in Wilmington, ca. 1840-1850.
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Pottery face jug made by Dorothy Cole Auman in Seagrove, ca. 1960-1991.
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Civil defense armband worn by a volunteer in Raleigh, ca. 1942. |
Army uniform worn by General Henry "Hugh" Shelton as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff between 1997 and 2001.
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M1917 helmet worn by a North Carolina doughboy during World War I.
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Glass ballot box used by North Carolina Board of Elections, ca. 1860-1950. |
Gold nuggets from Reed Gold Mine in Cabarrus County, ca. 1820; a $5 coin die used by Augustus.
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1840 political banner used by the Whig party; reads "Republican Simplicity/Locofono Arrogance."
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1988 Pontiac race car driven by Richard Petty in several NASCAR races between 1988 and 1990. |
Ticket to the 1942 Rose Bowl, played in Durham because of wartime fears about the safety of the regular venue in Pasadena, California.
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