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This week we have another 40 newspaper titles and thousands of issues up on DigitalNC, including over 1,000 issues from The Messenger and Intelligencer from Wadesboro, the birthplace of Piedmont blues musician Blind Boy Fuller (read a brief biography about Fuller here). In this post we have some interesting new information regarding the blues legend’s birth!
Via John Edwards Memorial Foundation Records (PF-20001), Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library
Blind Boy Fuller was born Fulton Allen to parents Calvin Allen and Mary Jane Walker in Wadesboro, North Carolina, but the actual date of his birth is very much up for debate. The date of July 10 seems to be generally agreed upon, but the actual year tends to differ. While there are some sources that put it at 1904, folklorist Bruce Bastin puts Allen’s date of birth at July 10, 1907 based on statements from the North Carolina State Commission for the Blind, the Social Security Board, and the Durham County Welfare records. However, his 1941 death certificate states that he was 32 years old when he died, putting the year of his birth at 1908.
Rockingham Post-Dispatch, July 28, 1921
What we found makes things a little interesting. After the family relocated to Rockingham sometime in the early 1900s, his father posted a notice in the July 28, 1921 issue of the Rockingham Post-Dispatch that would suggest that none of these are accurate. The notice supports the idea of a July birthday but implies that, being 16 years old, he would have actually been born in 1905.
Bruce Bastin is the author of Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast and Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Blind Boy Fuller with Stefan Grossman. The Bruce Bastin and Stefan Grossman Collections are housed here at UNC as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
Charlotte
Edenton
Greensboro
High Point
Lexington
Milton
New Bern
Raleigh
Rocky Mount
Salem
Salisbury
Wadesboro
Wilmington
Winston
Winston-Salem
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
This week we have 44 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC ranging from 1799 t0 1919! The vast majority of these are Raleigh papers, but we also have some from Charlotte, Asheville, New Bern, Winston-Salem, and Chapel Hill.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions are the following:
- The Semi-Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1875
- Daily Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1876
- The Southern Field and Fireside (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1864-1865
- Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1826-1845
- Weekly North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853
- State Agriculture Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1873-1875
- The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876-1877
- Southern Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1852-1955
- The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866
- North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868-1869
- The Daily Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1856
- Raleigh Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1839-1849
- Weekly State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1860-1884
- The State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1863
- Weekly Post (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1851-1852
- The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1833-1839
- The North Carolina Intelligencer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1891
- The Home Rule (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1898
- The Rasp. (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1841-1842
- The Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1913-1919
- The Field and Fireside (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865-1867
- The Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866
- The Raleigh Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850
- The Life Boat (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1865
- North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1904
- The Raleigh Minerva (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1809
- Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1799-1800
- Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1883
- Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1898-1900
- Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1910-1915
- The Weekly Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1878-1879
- The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1879-1880
- The Weekly Catawba Journal (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1860-1865
- The Western Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1869-1870
- Hornets’ Nest and True Southron. (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1850-1851
- The Weekly Courier (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1873-1881
- Our Weekly (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1872-1873
- The New Bern Weekly Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
- The People’s Press (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1833
- The Weekly News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1876
- The Daily News (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
- Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874-1876
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
Starting this week, we will have an update every Friday on new titles being added to our newspaper collection during a year-long project to bring already digitized content from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and Newspapers.com onto the DigitalNC newspaper platform.
This week we are sharing a list of the many new titles on DigitalNC that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in conjunction with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. The NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress with the intention of creating a vast, searchable database of newspapers and other historical documents. While you can currently search all of the NDNP issues on the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website, adding those same issues to our newspaper database will allow you to search that content alongside the other papers on DigitalNC. The titles in this batch include:
- The Goldsboro Star (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1881-1882
- Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.) – 1887-1901
- The Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.) – 1820-1835
- The Daily Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1918-1922
- The Wilson Times (Wilson, N.C.) – 1896-1922
- The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.) – 1857-1885
- The Daily Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1936-1937
- The Southland Advocate (Asheville, N.C.) – 1950
- The Southern News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1938
- The Peoples’ Advocate (New Bern, N.C.) – 1886
- African Expositor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886
- The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1919-1936
- Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1892-1909
- Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1865
- The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1883-1884
- Die Suedliche Post (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1869
- Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) – 1940-1946
- Hickory Daily Record (Hickory, N.C.) – 1915-1922
- The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.) – 1923-1963
- The Tri-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1866-1868
- The North Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1853-1865
- Newbern Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1863
- Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1858-1863
- The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1836-1870
- Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1885-1894
- The Times-News (Hendersonville, N.C.) – 1933-1938
- The Laurinburg Post (Laurinburg, N.C.) – 1895
- The Progressive Farmer and the Cotton Plant (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1886-1905
- Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) – 1923-1948
- Tabor City Tribune (Tabor City, N.C.) – 1946-1963
- The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.) – 1935-1956
- The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1890-1905
- Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1940-1947
Over the next few weeks we will be uploading more newspapers from NDNP. If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.