Early volumes of “The Tecoan,” the yearbook of East Carolina Teacher’s College (later East Carolina University) are now available online.
Early volumes of “The Tecoan,” the yearbook of East Carolina Teacher’s College (later East Carolina University) are now available online.
The Hellenian (1890-1900) and the Yackety Yack (1901 – present), student yearbooks from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are now available online at DigitalNC.org. Due to a change in how the yearbook photographs were copyrighted, we are only able to make the volumes through 1966 available at this time.
A large collection of urban renewal records from Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection will be digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and published on DigitalNC.org. These records include property appraisals and photographs taken in the 1960s and 1970s, and include a significant amount of information about Durham’s historically Black neighborhoods, including Hayti.
Over eight decades of student life at Appalachian State University are documented in the Rhododendron, the student yearbook. Digital versions of the Rhododendron from 1923 to 2006 are now available online at DigitalNC.org.
One of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center pilot projects will present early photographs, documents, and architectural drawings from the Oxford Orphanage in Oxford, N.C. Sallie Mae Ligon Museum & Archives & Masonic Home for Children at Oxford documents the history of the Masonic Home for Children. Selected materials from the collection will be presented online, giving users a glimpse into life at the orphanage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This blog is maintained by the staff of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and features the latest news and highlights from the collections at DigitalNC, an online library of primary sources from organizations across North Carolina.