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• Damage done by Hurricane Hazel, 1956. (3)
• Unidentified Durham (parade) scene. (3)
• Fire guts 4 buildings - north side Main Street looking west from Church Street. 3 other buildings damaged. Friday, April 18, 1969. ("Photo by Tony Rumple, Durham, N.C.") (2)
• "County Home." Picture of Durham County Home known by many as the "poor house." Built in 1881 on site now occupied by Durham County General Hospital. The picture replaced the first facility. n.d. (1)
• "Early Days," SW corner Church & Parrish Streets. [postcard]. (1)
• "Old bus station converted into post exchange in 1944 by Exchange club. Picture shows building from Rigsbee side [?]. Building razed & site is now part of the city parking lot bounded by Mangum & Chapel Hill Streets & Rigsbee Avenue [?]. [1944]. (1)
• "Sunday—Smoke & Dust from Blasting comes out windows." Demolition of Durham Hotel, formerly Washington Duke Hotel, 1975. ("Jim Thornton, Photographer. Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N.C.") (1)
• 301-05 Charles Store, 305 1/2 Thom McAn [sic] Shoe Store. West Main Street. Buildings razed to make room for First Union Bank bldg. In early days of Durham steps [?] led to basement of some [?] of the building. The doorways and windows shown in the picture [?-d] businesses in the basement. ("Herald Sun Photo by Harold Moon.") (1)
• 3rd floor removed. Picture taken Aug. 21, 195[7?]. S.W. corner Main and Corcoran Sts. Building razed to make way for Thalheimer's store. 1972: Thalheimer's Bldg. remodeled for new Wachovia Bank quarters. ("Herald Sun Photo, Durham, N.C. Charles H. Cooper, Photographer.") (1)
• 42nd Lightning from Camp Butner, parading down Main Street in Durham, "early 40s." (1)
• 78th Infantry division on parade from Camp Butner (camp opened on June 15, 1942 — closed in 1945, [Nov. 12, 1945?]) ("Charles H. Cooper, Photographer. Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N.C.") (1)
• American Tobacco Co. plant, n.d. (1)
• Beginning of new Y.M.C.A., corner Trinity Ave. & Duke St. Picture shows site at one of a number of luncheons held as part of fund-raising project, 1956. ("Charles H. Cooper, Photographer. Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N.C.") (1)
• Bird's eye view of Durham's downtown area, 1938. (1)
• Building is of second fire dept. building housing Hose Co. # 1 at Mangum & Holloway streets. When it was abandoned the property was bought by private interests & remodelled & occupied by them for office use. (1)
• Buildings northeast side [?] of Peabody Street near Mangum Street. Torn down for parking lot for Central Carolina Bank customers of branch located at southeast corner of Main & Mangum. ("Herald Sun Photo, Durham, N.C. Charles H. Cooper, Photographer.") (1)
• Buildings on northeast corner of Corcoran & Parrish Streets—torn down in 1956. [1956.] ("Charles H. Cooper, Photographer. Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N.C.") (1)
• Bus station after its completion, n.d. (1)
• Carr & Durham High, 1960. ("Herald Sun Photo, Durham, N.C. Charles H. Cooper, Photographer.") (1)
• Circus Parade going west, May 28, 1895. Durham Daily Globe [?] on corner up st[reet]. ("Durham Engraving Co.") (1)
• Construction of streets from E. Chapel Hill to Holloway Sts. as part of development of block bounded by Mangum, Chapel Hill, Cleveland & Holloway streets into city government center, 1963. ("Photo by Jim Sparks. Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N.C.") (1)
• Demolition of Durham Hotel, formerly Washington Duke Hotel, Sunday, Dec. 7, 1975. ("Jim Thornton, Photographer. Herald-Sun Papers, Durham, N.C.") (1)
• Destruction of West Durham post office. (1)
• Digging out of snow, Thursday, Jan. 17, 1946. (1)
• Duke's Factory. ("L & M") (1)
• Dur[ham] East [?] Duke [?], 1960. (1)
• Dur[ham] High & Carr, 1951. "Looking south; Ligget & Myers tobacco storage warehouses and other buildings on left." ("Herald Sun Photo, Durham, N.C. Charles H. Cooper, Photographer.") (1)
• Durham E[?]stre Sighting[?] Co. (Steam Plant), 1886, 1899. Building destroyed in explosion. (1)
• Durham Public Service Co. New office building, June 1928. (1)
• Durham Traction Co. ice wagon, 1904. [1914?] ("DC How Times Change".) (1)