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Title	[Photograph of F. W. Woolworth Company store, Greensboro, NC]
Date	1959-08-26
Creator	Martin, Carol W.
Biographical/historical note	Carol W. Martin (1911-1993) was a reporter-turn-staff photographer for the daily newspaper in Roanoke, Virginia in the 1930s. In 1938 he came the first full-time staff photographer for the Greensboro Daily News where he worked until 1947. He opened Martin's Studio in 1946, working through the early 1990s photographing a wide range of Greensboro citizens. While he was the majority owner of the business, he shared the work with his partner Malcolm "Tex" Miller and sometimes their lab technician, Miller’s brother-in-law, Clarence Tucker. Martin was known as "C.W." He died in July 1993.
Subject headings	Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Topics	Business desegregation and sit-ins, 1960
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This black and white photograph depicts the F. W. Woolworth Company building in Greensboro, NC six months before the lunch counter sit-ins protesting busuness segregation. The view is looking north on South Elm Street. The photograph was taken on August 26, 1959, by Carol W. Martin of Martin's Studios in Greensboro.
Type	Image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Source collection	Martin Studio Collection
Finding aid link	http://archives.greensborohistory.org/photographs
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	GHM_Martin.1334
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884367642

[Photograph of F. W. Woolworth Company store, Greensboro, NC]

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