Mattamuskeet Lake---Hyde County, NC.
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Title
Mattamuskeet Lake---Hyde County , NC .
Caption
Mattamuskeet Lake --- Hyde County , N.C . Seven miles wide , twenty miles long , two to five feet deep . Now being drained by A. V Wills & Son , Drainage and Levee Contractors ; hope to have corn growing in bottom of Lake in a short time . The County has good fertile soil , and what it needs is a good drainage system . This will surely mean a railroad and quick transportation . Photographed by T.R . Draper , Portrait and Land Scape Photographer , Belhaven , N.C .
Transcription
Handwritten notation on back of card reads , "CA 1915. "
Creator
Draper, Thomas R.
Description
Real photo view of boats and barges in a river or a canal .
Creation Date
1915
Date
ca. 1915
Subject (tgm)
Photographic postcards Rivers Boats Barges
Subject Topical
Postcards--North Carolina.
Subject Geographic
Hyde County (N.C.)
DCMI Type
Image
Form General
Postcards
Language
English
Physical Description of Original
87 mm x 137 mm
Medium of Original
Paper
Collection in Repository
Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077) ; collection guide available online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0077/
Local Identifier
P077;1-271
Citation
"Mattamuskeet Lake---Hyde County, NC." in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Digital Collection
North Carolina Postcards
Repository
North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Copyright
Public Domain
filename
P077-1-271.tif
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