Richmond Pearson Collection - Series 02: Photographs
M77.3.1 Folder Item Description
P77.3.1   1 pear001 Small oval portrait of Gabrielle (Thomas) Pearson (?-1924), wife of Richmond Pearson. 
    pear002 Small round watercolor painting of mountain cabin and landscape. [unknown origin]
    pear003 Portrait of Richmond Pearson. [with photographer signature - "Moffett [?]"

    pear004 Portrait of  Gabrielle Pearson and James Thomas Pearson [?] as infant. [Geo. S. Cook, successor to D.H. Anderson, Richmond, Va., photographer]

    pear005 Richmond Pearson, Jr. as child. [Geo. S. Cook, successor to D.H. Anderson, Richmond, Va., photographer]

    pear006 James Thomas Pearson, 1 year old. [Lindsey's Art Parlor, Asheville, N.C]

    pear007 James Thomas Pearson as child with dog. [Lindsey's Art Parlor, Asheville, N.C]

    pear008 Post card with donkey and head of Richmond Pearson, Jr. [?] as child.

    pear009 "Richmond Hill" home of Pearson family. View of exterior

    pear010 Thomas Pearson in military dress. Captain of Ports of Haiti

    pear011 Calling card for "Thomas Pearson, Vice President, Banque Nationale de la Republique d'Haiti, Department Fiscal." Written below: "Captain of Ports of Haiti."


    pear012 George I, King of the Hellenes (1845-1913) Handwritten on back: "Gold Small Cluse" [?] [Photographer Bohringer, Kgl. Hofphotograph., Athen[s].. [Carl Boehringer]

    pear013 Thomas Pearson and his dog 'Tehran Persia' seated in front of doorway. c. 1922-27. 

    pear014 Panther Creek. "Home of Colonel Joseph Williams. Built before the American Revolution, near the 'Shallow Ford' of the Yadkin River, in Surry County, North Carolina. Colonel Joseph Williams, of Knoxville, Tennessee, father-in-law of Chief Justice Richmond M. Pearson, of the North Carolina Supreme Court, was born in this house in 1778." [ According to Frances H. Casstevens The image is also reproduced in Brownlee, Frederick Leslie. Winston-Salem: A Pictorial History c. 1977. The image is cited as from "Historic Winston." It may also be found in Williams, Lewis James. Williams: 300 years of Leadership in America: a history of the descendants of John Williams of Llangolen, Wales. Lewisville, NC: Panther Creek Publishing, 1997, p. I-6. ]

 

 

    pear015 Termination of the Dominican Customs Receivership at Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, April 1, 1941. At table, (left): V. Alvarez Pina, Minister of Finance; (center) Thomas Pearson, Acting General Reciever.

 

    pear016 Same as above. View two, Pearson standing.. 

    pear017 Same as above. View three, Pearson shaking hands with Pina (in white suit).

    pear018 Pearson [?] at unknown location.

    pear019 James Thomas Pearson, born June 24, 1893, died April 16, 1963. Full standing portrait in postcard format. [A.Best [?], Paris]

    pear020 James Thomas Pearson, born June 24, 1893, died April 16, 1963. Bust portrait from the studio of Ignatius Brock, Asheville, NC. 

        

 

 

pear021 "Summer house or gazebo, built of raw oak limbs which, in the 1890's, stood on the highest point of Richmond Hill, Asheville, N.C. It was located about 1/2 mile northwest of the main Richmond Hill house and commanded a 360 degree view of the surrounding country."