Gallery
Standing on a Box: Lewis Hine's National Child Labor Committee Photographs, 1908
In the fall of 2008, the North Carolina Humanities Council funded in part “Standing on a Box: Lewis Hine’s National Child Labor Committee Photography in GastonCounty, 1908.” This multi-part project explored Greater Gaston’s textile heritage and its impact on the community’s present and future. “Standing on a Box,” directed by Carol Reinhardt of the Gaston County Public Library, used photographs taken in 1908 by Lewis Hine, a sociologist, reformer, and National Child Labor Committee photojournalist, to explore child labor conditions in textile mills at the turn of the nineteenth century.
A Country, A People
“A Country, A People” began in Goldsboro in January 2011. Its feature event was an exhibit of photographs taken by U.S. military troops recently deployed in Afghanistan. The month-long project coincided with Wayne County Reads 2011, featuring Greg Mortenson’s Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School At A Time.
An Icon Transformed
A documentary photography exhibition on the repurpose and renovation of a public school built in 1939 in the heart of downtown Cary. This school sits on the original 143- year-old-site of first state-assisted public high school as well as near the school site for African American students.
Read "Full Circle" a presentation by Hilary Green, Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Elizabeth City State University.
Yadkin River Story
Photojournalist Christine Rucker and Journalist Phoebe Zerwick collaborated to collect stories and photo essays about people who live along the Yadkin River.
All photos by Christine Rucker.
Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville's East End
“Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville’s East End, 1970,” a multifaceted public humanities project organized around Andrea Clark’s powerful photographs, explores the community’s life before and after the impact of urban renewal there. The discussions and interviews of the “Twilight of a Neighborhood” project revealed a wide array of view points that often contradicted each other and signaled that the history of urban renewal is complex and shaded. Among the factors that shaped responses were race, age, gender,and class.
