Here on DigitalNC we’ve got some up-to-the-minute stuff in addition to our historic materials – check out this photograph of two antebellum quilts donated to the Davie County Public Library earlier this very week.
And for the quilt enthusiasts, check out the other images of quilts on DigitalNC.org.
First year students moving into Gardner-Webb University in 1996 got a little help moving into their dorms from upperclassmen. In addition to standard dorm essentials, in 1996, students brought in box televisions and pop culture decorations, such as this cartoon Garfield the Cat trashcan.
Student yearbooks from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine are now available on DigitalNC. The site contains 72 volumes, ranging back as far as 1943, from the medical school, formerly known as the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. The yearbooks also include nursing students from the North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing.
The yearbooks are from the collection of the Dorothy Carpenter Medical Archives at the Coy C. Carpenter Library at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.
Student yearbooks from Winston-Salem State University are now available on DigitalNC. Fifty-nine volumes of the yearbook, ranging in date from 1935 to 2009, have been digitized and can be searched and viewed online. The original volumes are held by the University Archives at the C. G. O’Kelley Library.
I’m excited to announce a new addition to the North Carolina Newspapers collection: a complete run of newspapers from the Basic Training Camp and Overseas Relocation Depot, located in Greensboro during World War II, is now available on DigitalNC. The newspapers are from the collections of the Greensboro Historical Museum.
The base saw more than 330,000 soldiers pass through between 1943 and its closing in 1946. The base newspaper began publication in March 1943 and ran through September 1946, producing a total of 176 issues. The newspaper documented all aspects of life on the base, especially the social and sporting activities of the enlisted men. We’ll post a few highlights and interesting photos from the paper over the next few weeks.
[Update, January 2015. This newspaper can be viewed online in the Greensboro Historical Newspapers collection, hosted by UNC-Greensboro.]
Happy Bastille Day, from the 1915 Chowan College French Club.
Le Petit Restaurant du Cafe de la Paix (1915)
It doesn’t quite recall Paris, but I’m sure that the makeshift “Le Petit Restaurant du Cafe de la Paix” was a fine place to pass an afternoon.
The image above is from the 1915 Chowan College (now Chowan University) yearbook, the Chowanoka.
Student yearbooks from Salem College are now available on DigitalNC. Ranging in date from 1905 to 2011, there are more than 100 volumes accessible online.
Located in historic Old Salem, Salem College traces its origins back to 1772 and is recognized as the oldest women’s college in the nation by founding date.
Salem College varsity basketball team, 1927.
Student yearbooks from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington are now available on DigitalNC.org. Thirty-eight volumes of The Fledgling, ranging in date from 1950 to 1989, can be searched and browsed online.
The Tour de France is underway, due to finish in Paris later this month. I’m sure there are some fine cyclists in the race, but I wonder how many of them could keep up with these guys?
This photo, of the 1910 Mocksville Bicycle Club, is from the Digital Davie exhibit, which features materials from the Davie County Public Library.
Student yearbooks from Gardner-Webb University are now available on DigitalNC.org. Eighty-nine volumes, going back as far as 1907, have been digitized and can be searched and browsed in the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks project.
The school was founded in 1905 as Boiling Springs High School, later Boiling Springs Junior College. The name was changed in 1942 in recognition of the support of Governor O. Max Gardner and his wife, Fay Webb Gardner.
The editorial staff of the 1950 edition of The Anchor
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