A few weeks ago, we passed a very exciting milestone at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.  We added our 1000th high school yearbook to the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection.  The yearbook that got the special 1,000th honor was the Tar-Bo-Rah issue from 1942, published by Tarboro High School.  That particular issue, published during World War II, features a fair amount of patriotic insignia.  The cover has the Statue of Liberty on it, the pages features bold blue stars with stripes around Tar-Bo-Rah, and the original owner of the yearbook noted  by hand that those whose pictures were not included were already serving the U.S.A.  The Tarboro High School yearbooks were made available by the Edgecombe County Memorial Library.

To date, 170 different high schools are represented in DigitalNC, coming from 37 counties across North Carolina.  The oldest high school yearbook is the 1898-1899 issue of the Whitsett Institute Annual Register.  The smallest school represented is Eastern Pines School, whose Souvenir lists only one teacher and twenty students in 1910.  To view the over 1,000 high school yearbooks from across North Carolina now available on DigitalNC, visit our North Carolina High School Yearbooks page.

If you are a staff member at a public library or other cultural institution in North Carolina that holds NC high school yearbooks in your collection that have not been digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, get in touch with us soon and we can talk about how to participate.