Volumes 106 through 115 of the Francis B. Hays Collection of scrapbooks from Granville County Public Library are now up on DigitalNC. These scrapbooks add to the extensive collection of volumes compiled by Mr. Hays, an avid local historian from the Granville area. Each scrapbook contains a wealth of articles related to a specific subject, and many contain indexes and short histories hand penned by Mr. Hays. This batch of Scrapbooks focuses mainly on topics of commerce and transportation.
Volumes 106, 107, and 108 focus on Tobacco sale and production in North Carolina. Volumes 109 and 110 collect newspaper articles about automobiles. Volume 111 includes hand-written biographies and newspaper articles about important people in and around Oxford, North Carolina. Volume 112 focuses on airplanes, Volume 113 on railroads, and Volume 114 on the postal service. Volume 115 details the history of banking in Oxford.
For more Francis B. Hays scrapbooks, you can visit the DigitalNC page for the Francis B. Hays Collection or view our previous blog posts on the collection. You can also see more materials from the Granville County Public Library.