>From: "Victor T. Jones, Jr." <[email protected]> >To: "'Martha Marble'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Re: [NCLENOIR] Kinston pictures - or New Bern >Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:30:36 -0400 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 >Importance: Normal >X-Junkmail-Status: score=0/50, host=mr09.mrf.mail.rcn.net > >Martha, > >Glad you found out where the pictures were from and my >apologies for not answering earlier. I have just returned >from a week's vacation. It looks like all of the Kinston >photos were snapped up, but the others were not. > >FYI, for those Kinstonians who are interested, we have a >series of photographs from the 1880s of Kinston and White >Hall (Seven Springs) in our online digital history exhibit >(http://newbern.cpclib.org/digital). The photos are in our >William Garrison Reed collection >(http://newbern.cpclib.org/digital/reed/). [I can't remember >if I have announced this to you or the Kinston group before. >I think I did to the Craven group.] > > >Victor >--- >Victor T. Jones, Jr. >Local History and Genealogy Librarian >New Bern-Craven County Public Library >400 Johnson Street >New Bern, NC 28560-4098 > >Phone: (252) 638-7808 Fax: (252) 638-7817 >E-mail: [email protected] >Web: http://newbern.cpclib.org/ > >Opinions expressed in this communication are mine and do not >necessarily represent the opinions of the library. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Martha Marble [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:27 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Fwd: Re: [NCLENOIR] Kinston pictures - or New Bern > > >Victor, > >Go here on ebay and see if these pictures could be New Bern > >http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/SaleSearch?from=R8&ht=1&sat >itle=kinston&sokeywordredirect=1&sosortproperty=1&sacategory >=14277&catref=C12 > >If you can't get on this do a search for Kinston - pictures > >We are pretty sure these pictures are not of Kinston - river >pictures >almost give it away. > >Martha > > > > >Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:23:32 -0400 > >To: Lenoir List > >From: Martha Marble <[email protected]> > >Subject: Fwd: Re: [NCLENOIR] Kinston pictures > > > >Becky, I agree with you especially about that building and >the river. One > >of the most ornate buildings in Kinston at that time was >Rhodes Academy > >and it had twin towers. The river pictures look more like >it could be New > >Bern. Bob, never heard of a Bryan Motors. > > > >Martha > > > > > >>Resent-Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:08:08 -0600 > >>X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue Apr 6 00:08:07 >2004 > >>Reply-To: "Rebecca Hill" <[email protected]> > >>From: "Rebecca Hill" <[email protected]> > >>Old-To: "Robert C West" <[email protected]>, ><[email protected]> > >>Subject: Re: [NCLENOIR] Kinston pictures > >>Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 02:08:50 -0400 > >>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 > >>X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more >information > >>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean > >>X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 > >>To: [email protected] > >>Resent-From: [email protected] > >>X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> >archive/latest/3071 > >>X-Loop: [email protected] > >>Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >>X-Junkmail-Status: score=0/50, host=mr03.mrf.mail.rcn.net > >> > >>I saw the same things in those pictures that Bob saw. I >live in Lenoir > >>County and Kinston is my hometown, so something in those >pictures should be > >>familiar to me if they indeed were taken in Kinston. I >don't think they > >>were, however. What probably led to the assumption that >they were of sites > >>in Kinston is the banner hung over the street in "D401" >advertising the > >>County Fair in Kinston, N. C. But, in 1926, banners such >as that could have > >>been used in all the nearby towns as the means for >advertising such an > >>event--much like our billboards today. In the picture >"D401," I also noted > >>a building in the right background that appeared to be >several stories tall > >>and rather ornate in architecture. Nothing like that in >Kinston that I know > >>of. Also, in the right foreground there were some rather >blurry street > >>signs or directions signs which I tried to decipher. The >top one appears to > >>say "Wilmington" with an arrow pointing in that direction >and perhaps a > >>number of miles which I couldn't make out. Finally, the >pictures that were > >>taken on a waterfront show too much water for that water >to be the Neuse > >>River at Kinston. > >> > >>Becky > >> > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Robert C West" <[email protected]> > >>To: <[email protected]> > >>Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 12:12 PM > >>Subject: Re: [NCLENOIR] Kinston pictures > >> > >> > >> > > >> > I don't really know Kinston, so I wouldn't recognize >these photos, but > >> > "D405" and "D407" show what looks like a school to me >(and it appears to > >>be > >> > the same building as on the right of "D401"), and >behind it is "Bryan King > >> > Motor Co." That's as much as I got from them. > >> > > >> > Bob West > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > |---------+----------------------------> > >> > | | [email protected] | > >> > | | | > >> > | | 04/04/2004 01:46 | > >> > | | PM | > >> > | | | > >> > |---------+----------------------------> > >> > > >> > >----------------------------------------------------------- >---------------- > >>---------------------------------------------------| > >> > | > >>| > >> > | To: [email protected] > >>| > >> > | cc: > >>| > >> > | Subject: [NCLENOIR] Kinston pictures > >>| > >> > > >> > >----------------------------------------------------------- >---------------- > >>---------------------------------------------------| > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=Get >Result& > >> > > > >> > > >>cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&ht=1&from=R7&Sort >Property=MetaEndSo > >>rt& > >> > > >> > > query=kinston > >> > > > >> > > Lots of pictures of Kinston on e-bay, would you all >check them out and > >> > tell > >> > > us if you recognize any of them. I don't neither does >Martha > >> > > > >> > > sloan > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >