NC Museum of History, Raleigh Gallery

Entrance to the museum.

Judaculla rock.

A woman who held high status in her tribe, and traded for glass beads, in the 1600s in Sauratown.

Pirate exhibit.

Boys checking out the pirate exhibit.

Swords, from around 1650.

Pirates smuggled and sold valuable commodities like salt, weapons, spices, medicines, sugar, and tea and coffee.

Continental line soldier.

Classical design dress from around 1810.

Millstones, for grinding grain.

Women

Children as young as six worked in the textile mills. The work was hot, dusty, loud, and repetitive.

Entrepreneurs from North Carolina.

Wright brothers exhibit.

The Wright brothers on the dunes.

The Cherokee Indians at the Qualla Boundary make work carvings, coil pottery, and rivercane baskets.

Tailored uniform.

Family member in service banner, hung in the window.

African Americans and American Indians confronted the inequalities when they returned home from service in the war.

Woolworth

Wright brothers exhibit.

Corn, growing outside the museum for an exhibit on North Carolina agriculture.