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Front page of the June 17, 1937 issue of the Wallace Enterprise covering both Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to the town and a better than ever Strawberry Festival that year.
Thanks to our new partner, the Thelma Dingus Bryant Library in Wallace, NC (Duplin County), twenty years of the local paper The Wallace Enterprise is now online. Over 1,000 issues covering 1931 to 1955 were digitized from microfilm. The paper covers many local topics of the day in Duplin County and wider eastern North Carolina and had the tagline “Devoted to the Best Interests of the People of Wallace and Duplin County.” The local strawberry festival which brought in crowds from all over the state to “the largest strawberry market in North Carolina” was covered yearly, as were local elections, school board discussions and lots of coverage of agriculture topics, including crop control measures, which directly affected the largely agricultural workforce in the area. Eleanor Roosevelt visited in 1937 and gained a lot of glowing coverage when she came.
To view all the issues of the paper, visit here. To look at all our newspapers, visit our North Carolina Newspaper Collection.
Back in December, 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 over 500+ nominated. This year we’ve chosen the following titles and years.
Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
The Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.) |
1942-1949 |
Elkin Public Library |
The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) |
1943-1954 |
Martin Community College and Martin Memorial Public Library |
Gates County Index (Gatesville, N.C.) |
1942-1956 |
Gates County Public Library |
Green Line (Asheville, N.C.) |
1987-1994 |
Buncombe County Public Libraries |
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.) |
1944-1964 |
Orange County Public Library |
The Pamlico News (Bayboro, N.C.) |
1976-1987 |
New Bern-Craven County Public Library |
The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.) |
1965-1968 |
Southern Pines Public Library |
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) |
1911-1925 |
Johnston County Heritage Center |
The Wallace Enterprise (Wallace, N.C.) |
1931-1955 |
Thelma Dingus Bryant Library |
Winston-Salem Chronicle (Charlotte, N.C.) |
2017-2018 |
Forsyth County Public Library |
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 the first half of 2021. 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 2021.