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Mary Toole Parker (1914-2012)

: Mary Toole Parker 6/17/1914 – 2/24/2012

: Camp Patton at 95 Charlotte Street

: Grove Park School and UNC Chapel Hill

: The Henrietta – first home of Asheville YWCA

: Thelma Caldwell, Jeanne Bowman, Willie Mae Brown YWCA Boosters

: Louis Lipinsky and Bon Marché

: League of Women Voters Board Member

: Library Supporters Fanny Patton and James Patton

: Twice President of Library Friends

: NC Library Friend of the Year

: 75th Anniversary of Asheville’s Library

: Library Volunteer

: Library Volunteer #2

: Quality Forward Award in 1994

: Bicentennial Parade in 1997

: Leicester Branch Library

: North Branch Library

: Civil War Reenactors

: 1995 Party for Mary Parker

: Many Friends

: A Formidable Woman

: 93rd Birthday

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Our second #HistoryHarvest is the very same day as the #Asheville #Holiday #Parade.🎉 The parade begins at 11 am and will be over just in time for our History Harvest to begin at 1! One of our favorite and recently donated collections is the John R. Hayes Collection (MS369). This group of photos features a number of Asheville Holiday Parade snapshots, especially of the #Hillcrest Highsteppin' Drum & Majorette Corps, a program founded by Mr. Hayes. Join us on the 23rd here at @pack.memorial.library after you enjoy the holiday festivities to share your parade memories with us! 📸: Hillcrest #Majorettes getting ready to march in the Asheville Holiday Parade, ca. late 1990s. #AVL #AVLhistory #AshevilleHistory #CommunityHistory #librariesofinstagram #memories #828isgreat #archivesofinstagram #historymatters #librariesareforeveryone #blackasheville #blackashevillehistoryproject #blackavl @buncombecounty

Many of the photographs of #AfricanAmericans held in the #NCRoom do not show positive images of black folks living in our community in the past. Some, like the ones you can see here, are staged images posed by white photographers in order to intentionally depict a negative stereotype. These images were then marketed and sold to white audiences as postcards or "character and comic" images in gift shops and bookstores. One of our goals with our upcoming #HistoryHarvest is to collect more images from the 19th and early 20th centuries that depict African Americans in our community positively. Can you help us achieve this goal? Come join us for either History Harvest event @pack.memorial.library or contact NC Room Staff. #AVL #AVLHistory #Asheville #AshevilleHistory #BlackAsheville #BlackAvl #BlackAshevilleHistoryProject #ArchivesofInstagram #librariesofinstagram #communityhistory #historymatters #librariesareforeveryone #correcttherecord

Happy Halloween from all of us in the North Carolina Room! Have a spooky day! 📸: A Halloween Party at Oteen Hospital ca. 1919 from the Lillian Exum Clement collection. #HappyHalloween #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram #AVLToday #AVL #Asheville #AshevilleHistory @pack.memorial.library @buncombecounty

Members of Asheville's #AfricanAmerican community have been central to the #tourism and #hospitality industry since before the Civil War. Enslaved people labored in inns and taverns along the Buncombe Turnpike, then during the boom of the 1920s worked as maids and porters. There were also many successful black-owned businesses in Asheville and Buncombe County throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, however, fewer records of this kind have been preserved in our community's public archive. This photo, titled "Suzie at the Chimes," depicts one of the ways black women labored behind the scenes in the early 20th century at the Manor and Cottages off Charlotte St. in North Asheville. Help us work to increase the visibilty of the historical contributions of African Americans to our community by participating in our upcoming #HistoryHarvest events on November 9 and 23 from 1-5 pm. @buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library #Asheville #AshevilleHistory #AVL #AVLToday #AVLNews #Communityhistory #librariesareforeveryone #blackasheville #blackashevillehistoryproject #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #historyisimportant #communityarchives

Photos like these, victorian-era African American family portraits, are few and far between in our collection, but we know they are out there. Our goal with our upcoming #HistoryHarvest is to work with #Asheville and Buncombe County's #AfricanAmerican community to preserve more of these treasures by scanning or photographing them, preserving them in a digital format,then adding the digital files to our collections for the community. This photo of a young woman and child is unidentified, though we know it was taken in Asheville by female photographer Florence Brannigan. Perhaps you or your family members have photos that *are* identified, or maybe not. If we work together as a community, we can find and identify more photos together. The #NCRoom is Buncombe County's public archive. Help us grow and make our collections more reflective of our community! Make plans to join us @pack.memorial.library on November 9 or 23 from 1-5 pm. @buncombecounty #librariesareforeveryone #communityhistory #blackasheville #blackashevillehistoryproject #historymatters #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #communityarchives #AVL #AVLToday #AVLNews #Asheville #AshevilleHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory

Our first #HistoryHarvest is coming up on November 9! Our goal is to make our collection more reflective of our community by inviting members of the surrounding #AfricanAmerican community to contribute to our collection and preserve their family treasures in a digital format. Talk to your elders, learn about the family photos, papers, and more, you might have tucked away in the closet, then join us on Noveber 9 & 23 to share those items with the community. #NCRoom staff and volunteers will organize and scan or photograph your items, then return them to you along with a flashdrive containing digital copies of your personal archives! Scanning is from 2-5 but come early for an "Ask your Elders" round table discussion, where we will ask folks to share their most meaningful items with the community, and learn from their experiences. Photo: Children and adults pose behind canned goods, veggies, and flowers at the annual Buncombe County District Agricultural Fair. West Asheville businessman E.W. Pearson founded the fair for the African American community during the period of Jim Crow seggregation which prevented people of color from attending other fairs and carnivals. @buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library #librariesareforeveryone #communityhistory #librariesofinstagram #archivesofinstagram #blackasheville #blackashevillehistoryproject #historyisimportant #preservation #AVL #AVLToday #AVLNews

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