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Dr. Evelyn Scales Thompson Collection

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Title: Dr. Evelyn Scales Thompson Collection
Description: Photographs and items related to the African American community in Mount Airy, especially the James M. Scales family and JJ Jones High School. Items include photographs, yearbooks, and family memoirs.
Subject: Surry County (N.C.); Mount Airy (N.C.); African American; families
Creator: Dr. Evelyn Scales Thompson
Contributor: Dr. Evelyn Scales Thompson
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Format: photograph; memoir; yearbook
Type: text; image
Identifier: Sur_ESTC_lib
Coverage: Surry County (N.C.)

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The Indian (1959) JJ Jones High School
The Indian yearbook form JJ Jones High School dated 1959.
Moments In History: A documentary of the James M. Scales Family
History of the family of James M. Scales and wife Emma and their 13 children. Includes family memories, photographs and documents.
A group of Surry County School Personnel
A group of Surry County School personnel, including JJ Jones High School teachers gathering for a meeting. Photograph taken about 1960.Front row, from left: Unknown, Unknown, Virginia Galloway, Ms. Johnson, Gladys Neal Gwyn, Cordelia Nance, Eleanor Sellers Jones, Unknown, Laura Johnson, Beatrice Stewart, Unknown, CA McCabe Back row, from left: Unknown, Emma Edwards, Levi Gee, BJ Onque, Robert Taylor, Leo Cox, Erl Stzer, LH Jones, Joseph Bradshaw, Unknown, Carl Hargraves
Unknown Gathering
Wesley and Elizabeth Dyson Helton
Wesley and Elizabeth Dyson Helton
Unknown Man and Woman
Unknown Women
photograph of Unknown Women
Fannie Gentry
Fannie Gentry served as an elementary school teacher in Dobson and JJ Jones High School.
Walter Hughes
Walter Hughes of Pilot Mountain; photo taken 2000; he served as a Buffalo Soldier
Unknown Woman
Unknown Men
Photograph of Unknown Men
Mary Travis Tucker
Mary Travis Tucker
Ben Franklin Mittman
Ben Franklin Mittman
Mary Mathew Dobson
Mary Mathew Dobson- Archer's wife- 2002
Unknown Couple
Lettie Stewart
Mrs. Lettie Stewart Jan. 2001
Albert Johnson
Albert Johnson 2002
Unknown Family
Unknown Men
Unknown Group
Members of the Scales Family
Members of the Scales Family attend the family reunion held at the Ruritan Building in Flat Rock, NC. Admiring the display of family photographs are John Scales, Brenda Scales, Joseph and Levester Cobb.
Unknown Women
Unknown Women
Mittman's Body Shop
Mittman's Body Shop on South Street in Mount Airy
JJ Jones High School Reunion
Graduates of the JJ Jones High School in Mount Airy attend school reunion in 2005. L to R- Helen Strickland Taylor, Christine Tatum, Joseph Green, Geraldine Taylor Morgan, Evelyn Scales, Evelyn Tatum and Bobby Mittman.