Rufus Morgan Photographic Collection, circa 1869-1880

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Rufus Morgan Photographic Collection, circa 1869-1880

Rufus Morgan Photographic Collection, circa 1869-1880

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/inv/P0057/P0057.html

Rufus Morgan, a portrait and stereograph photographer, was born in Virginia in 1846 and died in California in 1880. He spent much of his adult life in North Carolina and operated studios at several locations across the state, including New Bern, Goldsboro, and Raleigh. Morgan's photographs were taken mostly in North Carolina, but he also traveled to South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, New York, and California. The collection consists of more than 350 individual stereographs, 316 stereographs mounted in the by Rufus Morgan, several photographic prints, and some documents related to Morgan's portrait business. Morgan took a majority of the images in this collection and collected the rest between 1869 and 1880. Included are images taken in different parts of North Carolina, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and South Carolina. The materials also include images of Davidson College; Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, N.C.; the North Carolina Military Institute in Charlotte, N.C.; the Oxford Orphanage in Oxford, N.C.; the Simonton Female College in Statesville, N.C.; St. Mary's College in Raleigh, N.C.; Yosemite Valley; Elisha Mitchell's gravesite; William J. Clarke; and Braxton Bragg. Illustrated Catalogue of Southern Scenery

590; 5.0

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives.