Mail truck boarding ferry, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, 1955. Public Deposited

Charlie "Mac", the driver of the Ocracoke-Hatteras mail truck, boards the Hatteras Inlet ferry at the northern most tip of Ocracoke Island. He has some ten miles of sand dunes and beach to cross from Ocracoke village to the ferry.

Item number

• ULPA SONJ 80682

Series

• Volume number LPFN66

Creator

• Roberts, Martha McMillan

Creator role

• photographer

Location

• Ocracoke Island (N.C.)

Subject

• Ferries
• Transportation
• Automobiles
• Postal service

Date original

• 1955-07

Decade

• 1950s

Object type

• Safety film negatives

Source

• 5 x 7 in. b&w safety film negative. Item no. SONJ 80682 in the Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

Collection

• Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection

Collection information

• https://archivescatalog.library.louisville.edu/resources/standard-oil-new-jersey

Repository

• University of Louisville Photographic Archives

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Ordering information

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