Featured above (left to right): Telephone Directory for Kannapolis, China Grove, Landis, and vicinity [1961], Telephone Directory for Kannapolis, China Grove, Landis, and vicinity [1962], and Telephone Directory for Kannapolis, China Grove, Landis N.C. [1965]
Twenty-two new city and telephone directories are now available on DigitalNC. Thanks to the Cabarrus County Public Library, it is possible to research information regarding Kannapolis, China Grove, Landis, Concord, and several surrounding areas from 1933- 1965. You can search all of the new additions here.
Besides the names and business data typical of city directories, they also include many advertisements and illustrations. They would also serve as excellent resources for those interested in genealogical research in Cabarrus County.
For more information about the Cabarrus County Public Library, please visit the contributor page or the website. To see more city directories like this from other cities in North Carolina, please visit the North Carolina City Directories Collection.
The Girls Basketball Team from Kannapolis High School, 1928
Cabarrus County Public Library’s newest contributions to DigitalNC include nearly 90 high school yearbooks. They range from the the mid-1920’s through the early 1960’s, the edge of DigitalNC’s 50 year date embargo for yearbooks. Each gives a unique look at the culture of young people during the period, especially that of young women
From the cropped bobs of the 20’s to the big bouffants of the 60’s, the yearbooks are galleries of teenagers displaying their most fashionable styles for the camera. From the basketball court to the band, high school girls marked the change in style over the decades, even in small towns in North Carolina.
Check out all the fashion and cultural changes throughout high schools in North Carolina by browsing the North Carolina Yearbooks Collection.
You can see all of the recently added yearbooks from Cabarrus County below:
- A.L. Brown High School (Kannapolis, N.C.), 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
- Concord High School (Concord, N.C.), 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953
- J.W. Cannon High School (Kannapolis, N.C.), 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952
- Kannapolis High School (Kannapolis, N.C.), 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928
- Logan High School (Concord, N.C.), 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957
- Mount Pleasant High School (Mount Pleasant, N.C.), 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964
- Odell High School (Concord, N.C.), 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
- Winecoff High School (Concord, N.C.), 1954, 1955
Letter girls from the A.L. Brown High School Band, 1965
To see more items from Cabarrus County Public Library, visit their contributor’s page or their website.
Student yearbooks from the Cabarrus College of Health Sciences are now available in the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks collection. The school was founded in 1942 as the Cabarrus County Hospital School of Nursing. Now located on the campus of the Charlotte Medical Center in Concord, Cabarrus College continues to prepare students for careers in nursing and other medical professions.
There are 52 volumes now available online, ranging in date from 1948 to 2005.
520 issues of The Concord Times from 1923 to 1927 have recently been digitized and added to DigitalNC thanks to a nomination from our partner Cabarrus County Public Library! The paper from Concord, North Carolina, documents 1920s happenings around the town, the state, and beyond. Published every Tuesday and Thursday, the paper frequently delivered news to its readers. A sampling of clippings are shared below:
To learn more about The Concord Times and see all 500+ issues, click here. For other digitized newspapers from Concord, North Carolina, visit this page.
Nearly 1300 issues of The Concord Daily Tribune are now available on DigitalNC, covering the paper’s publication from 1923 through 1927. From Concord, North Carolina, The Concord Daily Tribune was generally published daily except Sundays for decades. This paper is available thanks to a nomination from our partner Cabarrus County Public Library.
The paper covers local, statewide, national, and even international news for its audiences. While the efforts of the paper document serious journalism, the paper definitely includes quirky moments. There is no shortage of comic strips, and various animals even deliver meteorological reports on every front page:
To learn more about The Concord Daily Tribune and view all of its issues, click here.
Back in August, we announced our annual call for microfilmed newspaper digitization. We asked institutions throughout North Carolina to nominate papers they’d like to see added to DigitalNC. As it is every year, it was an incredibly tough choice – we are typically able to choose between 40-60 reels out of hundreds or thousands nominated. This year we’ve chosen the following titles and years.
| Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
| Carolinian (Raleigh) |
1945-1959 |
Olivia Raney Local History Library |
| Chatham Record (Pittsboro) |
1923-1930 |
Chatham County Libraries |
| Chowan Herald (Edenton) |
1934-1956 |
Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library |
| Concord Times |
1923-1927 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
| Goldsboro News |
1922-1927 |
Wayne County Public Library |
| Yancey Record / Journal |
1936-1977 |
AMY Regional Library System |
For our selection criteria, we prioritize newspapers that document underrepresented communities, new titles, papers that come from a county that currently has little representation on DigitalNC, and papers nominated by new partners. After selection, we ask the partners to secure permission for digitization and, if that’s successful, they make it into the final list above.
We hope to have these titles coming online in mid-2019. If your title didn’t make it this year don’t despair! We welcome repeat submissions, and plan on sending out another call in Fall 2019.
The following newspapers were digitized from microfilm in 2011 and 2012.
| Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
| The Mebane Leader |
1911-1915 |
Alamance County Public Library |
| Highland Messenger (Asheville) |
1840-1851 |
Buncombe County Public Library |
| The Standard (Concord) |
1888-1898 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
| Daily Concord Standard |
1895-1899 |
Cabarrus County Public Library |
| Mecklenburg Jeffersonian (Charlotte) |
1841-1849 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
| Miners’ and Farmers’ Journal (Charlotte) |
1830-1834 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
| Catawba Journal (Charlotte) |
1824-1828 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
| Western Democrat (Charlotte) |
1856-1868 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
| North Carolina Whig (Charlotte) |
1852-1863 |
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
| Fayetteville Observer |
1851-1865 |
Cumberland County Public Library |
| The Carolina Times (Durham) |
1951-1964 |
Durham County Library |
| The Lincoln Republican (Lincolnton) |
1840-1842 |
Gaston County Public Library |
| The Lincoln Courier (Lincolnton) |
1845-1895 |
Gaston County Public Library |
| The Roanoke News (Weldon) |
1878-1922 |
Halifax County Public Library |
| The Marion Progress |
1916, 1929, 1940 |
McDowell County Public Library |
| Marion Record |
1894-1895 |
McDowell County Public Library |
| Marion Messenger |
1896-1898 |
McDowell County Public Library |
| The Pilot (Southern Pines) |
1920-1945 |
Southern Pines Public Library |
| Sylvan Valley News |
1900-1911 |
Transylvania County Library |
| The Pinehurst Outlook |
1897-1923 |
The Tufts Archives |
| The Goldsboro Headlight |
1887-1903 |
Wayne County Public Library |
| The Elm City Elevator |
1902 |
Wilson County Public Library |
| The Wilson Advance |
1874-1899 |
Wilson County Public Library |
