We’ve just added newspaper issues from 37 titles, dating from 1819-1968, with the majority dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From a variety of cities, most of these additions are only 1-5 issues per title. Thanks to the State Archives of North Carolina and its preservation of newspapers, we’re pleased to include these fill-in issues. The State Archives provided them to us as part of their newspaper microfilming workflow.

Below is a list of titles, their cities of publication, and the years from which the issues date.

• Southern Citizen, Asheboro – 1873
• The Asheboro Courier, Asheboro – 1888
• Bayboro Sentinel, Bayboro – 1902
• Beaufort Halcyon, Beaufort – 1855
• The Carteret County Telephone, Beaufort – 1882, 1884-1885
• The Weekly Record, Beaufort – 1886
• The Tobacco Plant (Durham), Durham – 1872, 1882-1883
• The Durham Daily Globe (later the Herald-Sun), Durham – 1891
• The Edenton Transcript, Edenton – 1908-1909
• The Albemarle Observer, Edenton – 1911
• The Edenton News, Edenton – 1922
• The North Carolinian, Fayetteville – 1856-1857
• Western Reporter, Franklin – 1880
• Our Farms, Franklinton – 1896
• Weekly Message (later The Olive Branch), Greensborough – 1855
• The Gold Leaf, Henderson – 1885
• The Herald of Truth, Hendersonville – 1855
• The High Point Enterprise, High Point – 1968
• The Lincoln Courier, Lincolnton – 1867
• The Visitor (paper of the Littleton Female College), Littleton – 1902
• The Littleton Dispatch, Littleton – 1928
• The Franklin Times , Louisburg – 1879
• The Robesonian, Lumberton – 1872, 1876-1877, 1880-1881
• Milton Intelligencer, Milton – 1819
• The Milton Chronicle, Milton – 1860, 1883
• The Monroe Enquirer, Monroe – 1881
• The Norlina Headlight, Norlina – 1919
• The Granville Free Lance, Oxford – 1880
• The Oxford Torchlight, Oxford – 1881
• Spirit of the Age Raleigh – 1855
• The Spy, Raleigh – 1875
• North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser, Rutherfordton – 1834
• The Rutherford Banner, Rutherfordton – 1888
• The Democrat, Rutherfordton – 1895
• The Sun, Rutherfordton – 1918-1919
• North Carolina Argus, Wadesboro – 1855

The State Archives has an exhibit of Early North Carolina Newspapers here. Their microfilming efforts are behind almost all of the digitized microfilmed papers available through DigitalNC. Search or browse all of our newspapers on the newspaper landing page.

We have 21 new titles this week, including a couple from Petersburg, Virginia! In 1863, printer John William Syme relocated the Raleigh Register to Petersburg, Virginia. Production continued only until 1864, when the scarcity of supplies forced him to cease publication.

This week we also have one of the earliest advertisements for Pepsi buried on the last page of this issue of the New Bern Daily Journal. Created in a New Bern drug store in 1893, Pepsi was originally named “Brad’s Drink” after its creator and store owner, Caleb Bradham. In 1898 Bradham, changed the name to “Pepsi-Cola,” and in 1902 registered a trademark for the name. The first ad, misspelled as “Pesi-Cola,” is from August 8th, 1902 and the second, with the corrected name, is from August 31st, 1902.

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:

• Raleigh Daily Telegram (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
• The Daily Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1850-1851
• Daily Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1868
• The Semi-Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1864
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina State Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1800-1825
• Raleigh Register and North-Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1825-1841
• The Weekly Register (Petersburg, VA) – 1863
• The Progressive Farmer and Southern Farm Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1917
• The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1916
• The Evening Visitor (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1894
• The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1881-1894
• The Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1884-1888
• New Bern Daily Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Weekly Republican (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1874
• Asheville Daily Gazette (Asheville, N.C.) – 1900-1902
• Asheville Gazette-News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1913-1915
• The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.) – 1916
• The Asheville News (Asheville, N.C.) – 1880-1883
• Daily Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) – 1864-1865
• Asheville Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1881-1888

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.