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Photo Challenge! Capture Your Carolina Fall

As you explore all the seasonal things our state has to offer, we invite you to join our “Capture Your Carolina Fall” Photo Challenge!

Bayard Wootten 1875-1959 (C-70)

Pioneer photographer of N.C. and the South. An advocate of equal rights for women. Began career ca. 1904 in this house where she was born.

Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve

Aristotle said, “In all things of nature, there is something marvelous.”

Photographer Ignatius Brock of Asheville

On November 8, 1950, internationally-renowned photographer and painter Ignatius Brock died at age 83.

Bayard Wootten, Esteemed Photographer, of Chapel Hill and New Bern

On April 6, 1959, pioneering photographer Bayard Wootten died in New Bern.

We Need Your Help Identifying Photos: Part Two

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Noted Photographer Bayard Wootten

Pioneering North Carolina photographer Bayard Wootten achieved numerous firsts in her field, often endangering her safety to get the picture. Before shifting to photography, she designed the first trademark for Pepsi-Cola. In 1910 Wootten protested sexual discrimination in a professional publication and later took part in suffrage demonstrations.