Welcome to our Online Collections Database!
City of Raleigh Historic Resources and Museum Program
The artifacts you will find on this database are connected to the City of Raleigh's Historic Resources and Museum (HRM) Program sites including Chavis Park Carousel, City of Raleigh Museum, Dorothea Dix Park, Dr. M.T. Pope House Museum, Fred Fletcher Park/Methodist Orphanage, John P. "Top" Greene Community Center, Latta University Historic Park, Moore Square, Mordecai Historic Park, Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources, Pullen Park Amusements, and the Tucker House. We manage more than 30,000 decorative art objects pertaining to local history and material culture.
Note: The objects you see listed here are not all of the items in each of the collections. More will be uploaded as time allows, so check back regularly.
If you are interested in Oral Histories, the linked items are ones currently under HRM Program management. A city-wide endeavor is in the works to have a complete list of all internally produced oral history projects and ones housed at other local repositories.
The links below are some other useful primary source collections with connections to one or more of our sites.
Alfred Mordecai Papers, 1900-1986
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Cameron Family Papers, 1757-1978
Devereux Family Papers, 1791-1936 and undated
From Naming to Knowing: Uncovering Slavery at the North Carolina State Capitol
George W. Mordecai Papers, 1767-1916
Jacob Mordecai papers, 1784-1936
Laurens Hinton Papers, 1825-1896
Little-Mordecai Collection, 1713-1959
Margaret Mordecai Devereux Papers, 1837-1856
Mary Louise Eycke Cameron Park Collection, 1967 to 2016
Mordecai Family Papers, 1649-1947
Mordecai's miscellanies
Pattie Mordecai Collection, 1784-1876
Plantation sketches by Margaret Devereux
Pope Family Papers, 1851-1983
Raleigh City Cemeteries Preservation, Inc.
Raleigh Fire Museum