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From Henderson High School yearbook, 1914.
Six new scrapbooks from Perry Memorial Library (Henderson, N.C.) have been digitized and added to DigitalNC. The scrapbooks are primarily from the Henderson, North Carolina Woman’s and Junior Woman’s Clubs from the late fifties to early seventies. They include these:
More scrapbooks from Henderson, North Carolina can be seen here, plus yearbooks here. You can view more from Perry Memorial Library on their DigitalNC page and learn more on their website.
5 new scrapbooks from Perry Memorial Library (Henderson, N.C.) have been recently added to DigitalNC.
Members of the Glass Awareness Committee designing recycled jar Christmas trees for their float in the Warrenton Christmas Parade. GAS Awareness Scrapbook [1990], page 121
Ball glass jars have long held popularity in North Carolina. You might have seen them in your grandmother’s kitchen, full of canned goods from the garden. Or maybe you have seen them at a friend’s wedding, served as creative drinking glasses, an idea found on a Pintrest craft board. But have you ever thought about where those glass jars came from? What about where they are going when you are finished with them?
Ball Brothers Glass Company began in 1880 in Buffalo, New York. They later merged with their competitor, Foster-Forbes Glass Company. In 1969, it became Ball Corporation, as it is now called. These changes had no effect on the iconic script labeling each jar. Most recently, the company was acquired by Ardagh Group (of Luxembourg) in 2014. The plant located in Henderson, N.C. is also under this new banner. Several of these merges and name changes are documented in the scrapbooks, a record of the changes on individuals working within the company.
Ball glass jars and other glass containers are recyclable, making them a sustainable choice in comparison to plastic bags or containers. The scrapbooks document the activities of the Ball-Foster Glass Container Company- Glass Awareness Committee (GAC) in their mission to “encourage all plant employees to promote [the] product and its ability to be 100% recycled, in Henderson and the surrounding area.” They are full of the correspondences, documents, and photos of the group’s activism in the community, encouraging citizens of all ages to recycle. They were quite active with booths at the N.C. State Fair, local fundraisers, and festivals.
To learn more about the activities of the Ball-Foster Glass Company- GAC see the full scrapbooks at the links below. To learn more about the Perry Memorial Library, please visit their contributor page or their website.
Student yearbooks from schools in Henderson and Middleburg in Vance County, N.C., are now available online in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC.
These join yearbooks of the Henderson Institute that are already online, giving Vance County residents and researchers a terrific resource for community history and memory.