40 Newspaper Titles added to DigitalNC
Another 40 newspaper titles up on DigitalNC this week! In this batch are many titles from all over the state (including nine from Rutherfordton) and a little local baseball history.
Featured in the May 5, 1902 issue of the Durham Daily Sun is the very first game of the Durham Tobacconists, the baseball team that would go on to become the Durham Bulls in 1913. While they lost their inaugural match to the Charlotte team 12-2, the author is optimistic and writes that “everything may soon be going their way.” They dropped out of the season two months later.
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
- The Charlotte Chronicle (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1886-1892
- The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1922
Durham
Elizabeth City
Fayetteville
- Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1901-1919
- Fayetteville Daily Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1917-1920
- Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1920-1922
Gastonia
- The Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1880-1919
- The Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1919
- Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) – 1920-1921
High Point
Kinson
Oxford
Plymouth
Raleigh
Roanoke Rapids
Rockingham
- The Southern Index (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1896
- The Richmond Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1884-1885
- Rockingham Rocket (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1885-1897
- Piedmont Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1915-1917
- Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1926-1959
Rutherford College
Rutherfordton
- The Democrat (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1896
- The Western Vindicator (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1869
- The Rutherford Enquirer (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1860
- The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1881-1887
- The Sun (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1903-1922
- The Rutherford Star (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1866-1872
- The Republican (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1844-1845
- Western North Carolina Republican (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1847
- Mountain Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.) – 1848-1850
Southern Pines
- Sandhills Daily News (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1936-1937
- Southern Pines Bulletin (Southern Pines, N.C.) – 1902
Southport
Troy
Wilmington
- The Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1846-1850
- The Tri-Weekly Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1850-1858
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.