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Thanks to our partners at the New Hanover County Public Library, we have just added 36 new school yearbooks to DigitalNC! This substantial addition ranges from 1921-1973 and represents New Hanover High School, Wilmington High School, and John T. Hoggard High School, as well as the James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing which closed in 1966. These volumes are a rich resource for researching the history of Wilmington and New Hanover County, and we are excited that they are now available for online perusal. Looking through the pages, one can easily imagine being a student in these bygone days.
Researchers can see all of our materials from New Hanover County Public Library here. To view more yearbooks from other schools across North Carolina, visit The North Carolina Yearbook collection linked here.
Thanks to our partner, Haywood County Public Library, a batch containing new issues of yearbooks from Bethel High School, Canton High School, Pisgah Senior High School, Waynesville High School, Tuscola High School, Clyde High School, and Crabtree Iron Duff High School are now available on our website. This batch includes yearbooks from the years 1943 to 1970.
The Mountaineer 1962 cover
To learn more about the Haywood County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
176 issues of The Wilmington Sun are now available for browsing on DigitalNC. This a brand new addition to our newspaper collection and we would like to thank our partners at New Hanover County Public Library for making this possible.
Spanning October 1878 to May 1879, these newspapers give insight into the happenings of the late 19th century. During this time, The Sun published issues daily except for Mondays and select holidays. As Wilmington was quickly becoming the largest city in North Carolina at the time, each issue covered a wide range of topics, from the international to the local.
Notably, Wilmington had a thriving shipping port and railroad industry in the mid to late 1800s, so The Sun included a Markets and Shipping section. These sections list out the market activity of materials such as cotton, rosin, tar, spirits turpentine, and crude turpentine while also noting the arrival and clearance of national and international goods.
To take a look at all the new issues of The Wilmington Sun, click here. For more information about New Hanover County Public Library, you can visit their homepage here.
