Description: The first two photographs are of a young Yvonne Walker-Taylor and a woman named Bass standing outside while vacationing in Raleigh, North Carolina. The following photograph is of an unidentified woman standing by a tree in East Weymouth, Massachusetts. This is one of several pages taken from a scrapbook that belonged to Yvonne Walker-Taylor. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_03_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
Places: Raleigh (North Carolina); East Weymouth (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photograph that was taken in 1922 of two unidentified teachers attending summer school at Shaw University and a photograph of Bessie and Flora in a tree. This is one of several pages taken from a scrapbook that belonged to Yvonne Walker-Taylor. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_03_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women; Shaw University
Places: East Weymouth (Massachusetts); Raleigh (North Carolina)
 

Description: This is a cornerstone of the North Carolina State Capitol. This building is an example of Greek Revival. It was completed in 1840 at a cost of just over $532,000. Portions of the third floor also incorporate Gothic style elements, and an aerial view of the building will show its cross shape. Today, the building houses the governor and lieutenant governor and their staff. The Supreme Court and State Library moved to a separate building in 1888, and the General Assembly moved to the State Legislative Building in 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_558
Subjects: Capitols--North Carolina; National Register of Historic Places; rotundas (interior spaces); groined vaults; Doric order; Greek Revival
Places: Raleigh (North Carolina); 1 E. Edenton St.
 

Description: This is the House of Representatives of the North Carolina State Capitol. This building is an example of Greek Revival. It was completed in 1840 at a cost of just over $532,000. Portions of the third floor also incorporate Gothic style elements, and an aerial view of the building will show its cross shape. Today, the building houses the governor and lieutenant governor and their staff. The Supreme Court and State Library moved to a separate building in 1888, and the General Assembly moved to the State Legislative Building in 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_557
Subjects: Capitols--North Carolina; National Register of Historic Places; rotundas (interior spaces); groined vaults; Doric order; Greek Revival
Places: Raleigh (North Carolina); 1 E. Edenton St.
 

Description: This is the front facade of the North Carolina State Capitol. This building is an example of Greek Revival. It was completed in 1840 at a cost of just over $532,000. Portions of the third floor also incorporate Gothic style elements, and an aerial view of the building will show its cross shape. Today, the building houses the governor and lieutenant governor and their staff. The Supreme Court and State Library moved to a separate building in 1888, and the General Assembly moved to the State Legislative Building in 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_529
Subjects: Capitols--North Carolina; National Register of Historic Places; rotundas (interior spaces); groined vaults; Doric order; Greek Revival
Places: Raleigh (North Carolina); 1 E. Edenton St.
 

Description: This is the front and side facades of the North Carolina State Capitol. This building is an example of Greek Revival. It was completed in 1840 at a cost of just over $532,000. Portions of the third floor also incorporate Gothic style elements, and an aerial view of the building will show its cross shape. Today, the building houses the governor and lieutenant governor and their staff. The Supreme Court and State Library moved to a separate building in 1888, and the General Assembly moved to the State Legislative Building in 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_528
Subjects: Capitols--North Carolina; National Register of Historic Places; rotundas (interior spaces); groined vaults; Doric order; Greek Revival
Places: Raleigh (North Carolina); 1 E. Edenton St.
 

Description: This is the front facade of the North Carolina State Capitol. This building is an example of Greek Revival. It was completed in 1840 at a cost of just over $532,000. Portions of the third floor also incorporate Gothic style elements, and an aerial view of the building will show its cross shape. Today, the building houses the governor and lieutenant governor and their staff. The Supreme Court and State Library moved to a separate building in 1888, and the General Assembly moved to the State Legislative Building in 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_527
Subjects: Capitols--North Carolina; National Register of Historic Places; rotundas (interior spaces); groined vaults; Doric order; Greek Revival
Places: Raleigh (North Carolina); 1 E. Edenton St.
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of President Andrew Johnson, from the Sherman Family Photograph Collection, ca. 1865-1880. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 29, 1808. After moving to Tennessee, he served several terms in the state legislature from 1835 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1843. In 1843, Tennessee voters elected Johnson to the U.S. House of Representatives, a seat he held for a decade. Johnson won the Tennessee governor's race in 1852 and held this position from 1853 until 1857. He was chosen as Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential candidate in 1864, and became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the assassination of Lincoln. He was reelected for a second term and served until March 4, 1869. He died on July 31, 1875, in Elizabethton, Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04256
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Places: Tennessee; Washington D.C.