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PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION 123
Collection: Hazel Rogers Collins (Harnet Chapel School) Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 8”xl0” mounted photographic print; 1 CD containing an Adobe Quick
Time video file, 5 jpg images, a psd image (Adobe Photoshop doc), and a pdf document
Acquisition: The collection was donated June 8, 2006 to the North Carolina State Archives by
Ms. Lynn Rogers, Rogers Design and Consulting, 4029 McLaughlin Drive, Tallahassee, FL
32309.
Description:
The Hazel Rogers Collins/Harnet Chapel School Photograph Collection contains:
• 1 Mounted 6”x8" photograph (mount measures 10”xl2”) depicts group of 3 1 children and 2
teachers in front of Harnet Chapel School, c.1921-1922. Teachers identified as Mrs. Norris,
teacher for older students; and Mrs. Pearl Proctor, for younger students. Students are
identified as: Hazel Rogers, b.l 1 Aug 1916; Helen Holloway; Frank Revells; (unidentified
female) Revells; Randolph (unknown last name); Mozelle Smith; Anna Lee Johnson;
Lawrence Rogers, b. 30 Jan 1910); Craig Holloway; and Robert Smith.
• A CD with
■ 1 Quick Time video is an interview with Hazel Rogers Collins by members of her family
done around January 2007, when Ms. Collins was 92 years old.
■ 1 jpg portrait image of Earnest W. Collins, husband of Hazel Rogers Collins, killed in
action, St. Lo, France, in WW11 in 1944 just six months after his marriage to Hazel
Rogers Collins.
■ 1 jpg image scan of original photo of Harnet Chapel School group
■ 1 jpg image of the grave of Mrs. Hazel Rogers Collins, Live Oak, FL (gravestone lists
dates as August 11, 1914 - January 25, 2007)
■ 1 jpg image (color) of the nieces and nephews of Mrs. Hazel Rogers Collins which she
helped to raise
■ 1 jpg image of Mrs. Hazel Rogers Collins at the time of the oral history interview
■ 1 Adobe pdf document showing an image of the original Harnet Chapel School group
with the teachers and students numbered and with text describing the school and giving
identifications by number of twelve of the people depicted
Mrs. Hazel Rogers Collins attended Harnet Chapel School, which was located about 2.5 miles
from Fuquay-Varina, NC, both before and after this 1921-1922 photograph was taken. She
described the school at the age of 92 in January 2007 to Lynn Rogers, Tallahassee. FL, who
relates it as follows:
It was a two-room schoolhouse — one room in back for the older students and one room
in front for the younger. The older students would walk through the front door to their
room and the younger students would be allowed to enter their room. There is a water
tank for drinking behind student #5 (in the photo). Lawrence Rogers (#30) would go
each morning with his friend Craig Holloway (#3 1 ), to Craig's house next door to theor
well and fill buckets for the school water tank. There were paper cups, but some students
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