RALEIGH – If you’re hankering to see what past inaugurations of North Carolina governors were like, take a visit to the Gubernatorial Inaugurations Flickr page posted by the North Carolina State Archives. When you click on NC Gubernatorial Inaugurations Photostream, you’ll find boy scouts and ball gowns, motorcades and reviewing stands among 31 black and white images.
The images are from the State Archives collection, and include images used by permission of the News & Observer. The State Archives photograph collection includes more than three million images ranging from daguerreotypes from the 1860s to color photographs of the 1990s. See a flickr stream of the archives collection at http://www.flickr.com/photos/north-carolina-state-archives.
Governor Beverly Eaves Perdue will be sworn at the State Archives/State Library building at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10. This will be the seventh inaugural ceremony at the State Archives Building since 1981. Within the building in the State Library is an exhibit of past gubernatorial inaugurations which will be on display until late January.
For additional information on the State Archives photographs, call 919-807-7311. The State Archives is within the Office of Archives and History, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, a state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina’s arts, history and culture, and celebrating the theme “Treasure N.C. Culture” in 2009. Cultural Resources podcasts 24/7 and provides information about the Department of Cultural Resources at www.ncculture.com.