"We Built This" Exhibit
Title
"We Built This" Exhibit
Subject
African-American Builders
Rights
The materials in this collection are made available through the Salisbury Post Morgue Preservation Project and courtesy of Rowan Public Library for use in research and private study. Images and text may not be used without prior permission from Rowan Public Library, Edith M. Clark History Room.
Collection Items
Livingstone College, 1944
Livingstone College, 1944. This picture, crafted in 1944, shows the college’s newest building, Price Hall, and four administrators, President William Trent, Registrar-Treasurer Julia Duncan, Dean Frederick Drew, and Dean of Women Hattie Flack.
Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon
Thomas Howard Wholesale Grocery wagon. Date unknown circa 1910-1920.
Huntington Hall
Huntington Hall - The first building at Livingstone College. Sold by a local lawyer to the AME Zion Church, who used it as the foundation for their new campus. The building burned down in 1918.
Cook with Gas
Cook with Gas - advertisement from a local drug store promoting gas stoves circa 1915.
Louise Rountree
Louise Rountree – Livingstone College librarian. In 1976, she compiled an introductory guide to Salisbury-Rowan County African-American history – A Brief Chronological History of Black Salisbury-Rowan – that forms one key foundation for historical…
Winsel O. Black
Winsel O. Black – First African-American doctor to practice at Salisbury’s hospital. Black relocated to Salisbury from Asheville in the early 1960s and opened numerous practices in his forty-plus years practicing medicine. When he started practicing…
Rev. James Morton
Rev. James Morton – Relocated to Salisbury in 1909 to head up Church Street Presbyterian. He oversaw the development of the congregation and construction of a new building. The congregation stayed there until migrating to a yet-larger building when…
Stone Masons
Stone masons – Laborers laying granite blocks in front of the Salisbury Depot in the early 1900s.
"Uncle" Joe Ballard
!["Uncle" Joe Ballard](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/8489/archive/square_thumbnails/effbdbba2550f8ca25de48784d27600b.jpg?Expires=1715212800&Signature=Ep79MSjzrp5bYGWMitDqXKwmi%7E9VlLCzuSz-ghlAw5pFDvDDFROh%7ETbTYFurol8JtgAQ65lycBotRXVucZfpi6wltBEVgXj%7ET76Ee97XVpB1AncASZ8DISAlCV3lhiNSzgsfkBX-fNKWyecxuzRlj5cysdNVnvORf4b2vG7bqYaO7IcMdoxGJpf11TJ1EoZubvO4RUVVYQ-VHMwQ69rDpJPEUOw4reWlahCTPlS5IBnsK-ihUA604y6Ji8UDkoR70spWMDCqO1-dw%7EN0t5671yvKnRVheCbuKH8nHt7gWnXPcf503OF1IQiAi1uzu-G3KV6RXKmCvSn-hwCm36bQ0A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ""Uncle" Joe Ballard")
“Uncle” Joe Ballard – Local blacksmith and politician who featured in many postcards from the turn of the century. Reputed to have been Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of Rowan County. Founded and ran Salisbury’s first waste collection…
Ballard Industrial Hall
Ballard Industrial Hall. One of the Livingstone College’s first four buildings. Constructed in the late 19th century.