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Collection: F. C. SALISBURY Collection
Carteret County
PC. 1848.1 OVERSIZE BOX
PC. 1848 '.2-3 FIBREDEX BOXES
Physical Description: ]_ scrapbook, 19x24" containing 146 pages; 2 fibredex
boxes containing 105 folders of newspaper clippings, scribble notes, photo¬
graphs, and correspondence relating to Carteret County history.
Acquisition: Gift of Mrs. Ruth Peeling Barbour, Beaufort, N.C., 1996, 1997.
Description: Frank Currier Salisbury (1874-1964), son of Milford S. and
Dolin Frances (Barber) Salisbury, was born in Lockport, New York. His
family moved to Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York in the 1880s. Here
Salisbury grew up, operated a photography studio for 20 years, and worked
as an editor of the Wyoming County Times. While on a tour of the eastern
coastal states, he visited Morehead City, then moved there in October, 1924,
and began work as manager of the Morehead City Coaster. Two years later
he purchased the newspaper, changed its name to the Carteret County Herald
and edited and managed it until selling it ten years later, keeping the
printshop side of the business for himself. Salisbury became increasingly
fascinated by the area's local history and collected newspaper articles
on the subject, and wrote occasional pieces himself. Then in the 1950s
he began regularly writing newspaper articles on local history, and any¬
thing from the colonial period, the Civil War, Fort Macon, cemeteries,
local personages, churches, schools, businesses, to shipwrecks, disasters,
and geography was grist to his mill. In his pursuit of local history,
Salisbury photographed houses, churches, businesses, and scenes in Beaufort,
Morehead City, and Newport, and in rural areas of the county. He collected
and copied older photographs and prints, and clipped newspaper articles
by other local historians such as Amy Muse, Ruth Peeling Barbour, and
Mrs. Robert L. Rose, as well as those by himself. These photographs and
clipped articles were mounted by Salisbury in a scrapbook that he purchased
in 1948, and it forms the basis for this collection.
The scrapbook (PC. 1848.1) is filed with oversized material. It has a
table of contents laid in at the first page. The volume is divided so that
pages 1-109 and 144-145 are those with mounted newspaper clippings, some
of them from as early as 1915 but most of them from about 1954 to 1964.
Pages 112-142 have mounted on them Salisbury's original photographs and
copies of prints and older photographs as well as photographs clipped from