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VIRTUAL JAMESTOWN: John White Drawings/Theodor De Bry engravings Selected watercolor drawingsfrom a series of 70 made in 1585 at Roanoke Island by John White, an artist and cartographer who accompanied the voyage from England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina under a plan of Sir Walter Raleigh to settle "Virginia." The purpose of his drawings was to give those back home an accurate idea of the inhabitants and environment in the New World. In 1590, Theodor De Bry made engravings from White's drawings to be printed in Thomas Hariot's account of the journey. Hariot, a mathematician, had also been part of the 1585 voyage.   Illustrations from REPORT OF THE SERVICES RENDERED BY THE FREED PEOPLE TO THE UNITED STATES ARMY, IN NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE SPRING OF 1862, AFTER THE BATTLE OF NEWBERN by Vincent Colyer, Superintendent of the Poor under General Burnside (New York: Vincent Colyer, 1864):   The Freedman (Frontispiece) Arrival of Freed People, p. 34 Blacksmith Shop, p. 11 Bringing in Supplies of Cattle, p. 30 Cotton Hoarding in the Swamps, p. 37 Chopping Wood and Cooking for Hospitals, p. 42 Furney Bryant as the Refugee, p. 13 Furney Bryant as Union Soldier, p. 14 Furney Bryant Defending Newbern, p. 18 Freedmen as Union Scouts, p. 23 First School for Colored People in North Carolina, p. 45 Flight of the Negroes, p. 48 General Burnside's Private Carriage, p. 53 General Burnside's Headquarters, Newbern, p. 57 Industry of the Women and Children, p. 33 The Old Nurse, p. 41 Placing the Stockade in Building the Forts, p. 7 Repairing Railroads, etc., p. 49 Services on the Battle Field, p. 61 The Union Scout, p. 27 William Kinnegy bringing in his Family, p. 21   PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE UNC-CHAPEL HILL LIBRARY NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES: The Chowan County courthouse in Edenton, April 2, 1890. Constructed in 1767, it is the oldest courthouse in North Carolina and one of the best-preserved examples of Georgian public architecture in the nation. Afro-American man beside his home near Edenton, 1890s. Photo by Charles Morgan of Elizabeth City, N.C. Cutting crimson clover with mule-drawn machinery. Photo by Lincoln W. Highton for the Works Progress Administration. North Carolina Civil War Image Portfolio, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill   IMAGES OF SLAVE LIFE IN HARRIET JACOBS' TIME   NATIONAL ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS: Recruitment Poster for Black Troops Navy Recruiting Poster for New Bern, 1863    THROUGH THE LENS OF TIME: IMAGES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE COOK COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS Nearly 300 prints taken by George S. Cook (1819-1902) and Huestes P. Clark (1868-1951) primarily in the Richmond and Central Virginia area.    PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Stowage of the British slave ship Brookes... A Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia Ladies Whipping Girls Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, S.C. Shows a group of about 30 blacks gathered around a large slave cabin. Preparing Cotton for the Gin on Smith's Plantation Emma Crockett and her Fine Double House The Liberator: Front Page of Newspaper published by WIlliam Lloyd Garrison Horrid Massacre in Virginia Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" African-American Sailor Officers and Crew on Deck of the "Monitor" Hampton Roads, Va., July 1862." Shows a black seaman squatting in the right foreground. A Group of Contrabands Shows two black men sitting in front of an army tent, one with cigar and the otherwith a soup ladle. Loading of Stores at City Point, Va. Shows black men on the dock; two black men carry cargo.   MAIN STREET, WORCESTER, MASSACUSETTS, 1906