Mrs. Putnam's Receipt [sic] Book with recipe for "a very nice Christmas pudding". Also includes recipes for bread pudding, boiled bread pudding, plum pudding, and "An English Plum Pudding." This item is from North Carolina State Archives Private...
World War, 1914-1918; Christmas; Posters; Liberty bonds;
"For Christmas! War Savings certificate or stamp in every stocking…," n.d. From the General Liberty Loan Posters Collection, ca. 1917 - ca. 1919. After the United States entered World War I, government officials found posters to be an extremely...
Christmas--North Carolina; Christmas decorations; Electronic industries--North Carolina; Electric apparatus and appliances; Advertising; Electric lighting;
Carolina Power and Light’s Christmas display, advertising electric gifts with the slogan "give something electrical."
Christmas--North Carolina; Christmas decorations; Electronic industries--North Carolina; Electric apparatus and appliances; Advertising; Electric lighting;
Carolina Power and Light’s Christmas display, advertising electric gifts with the slogan "give something electrical."
Liberty bonds; Christmas; World War, 1914-1918; Posters; Airplanes;
After the United States entered World War I, government officials found posters to be an extremely effective means of communicating information to the general public. The posters were meant to have widespread appeal and thus tended to be colorful,...
Christmas--North Carolina; World War, 1914-1918; Posters; American Red Cross; Snow;
Color poster showing in upper part a snow-covered house and an evergreen tree; in lower part is a red cross and text urging donors to answer the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call - All you need is a heart and a dollar."
Christmas--North Carolina; World War, 1914-1918; Posters; American Red Cross; Nurses;
Color poster on paper of a Red Cross nurse asking "Have you answered the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call?" In the background, a troop of American soldiers, rifles on shoulders, marches behind their flagbearer.
Christmas--North Carolina; World War, 1914-1918; Posters; American Red Cross; Candles;
Full color poster of a window with a red cross and a candle within; tree appears in the background. Includes the text: "TEN MILLION NEW MEMBERS BY CHRISTMAS, JOIN THE RED CROSS AND ON CHRISTMAS EVE. A CANDLE IN EVERY WINDOW. A SERVICE FLAG IN...
Christmas--North Carolina; World War, 1914-1918; Posters; American Red Cross; Candles;
Color poster of a large candle in a window, its flame lighting a red cross; text below asks for 10,000,000 members by Christmas, with a candle in every window and Red Cross members in every home.
Christmas; World War, 1914-1918; American Red Cross; Nurses;
Color banner poster, proclaiming "Universal Membership Week," December 16-23, for the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. On the left side of the banner is a nurse with outstretched hand; on the right end, a seated nurse cradles a wounded soldier.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women; Christmas--North Carolina; Wilmington (N.C.); Confederate States of...
Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston of Halifax County was a well-educated woman, ardent Southerner, daughter of Thomas Pollock Devereux, and wife of Patrick Muir Edmondston of Charleston, S.C. In this diary entry, she records the mustering of her...
