Historic Photos of North Carolina

<p>Native North Carolinians tend to learn the state toast (adopted by the General Assembly in 1957) in childhood. As with the state motto <em>Esse Quam Videri</em> (To be rather than to seem) such words from the toast as "Here's to the land of the longleaf pine hold an amazing power to inspire the varied denizens of North Carolina a state with deep and varied agricultural and industrial histories.</p><p>Words are fine for inspiration and for recording the achievements of those who once heard or spoke such words. However a single photograph offers a window into a lost past that is difficult to capture in words alone. This volume <em>Historic Photos of North Carolina</em> provides nearly 200 such glimpses of life in the Tar Heel State. From the mid-1800s through the mid-1900s from Cape Hatteras to Asheville from scenes of farm families working in the fields to Orville Wright in flight at Kill Devil Hills these historic black-and-white images seek to capture the essence of change in the land of the longleaf pine.</p>