The North Carolina Whig, a newspaper published in Charlotte in the 1850s and 1860s, is now available on DigitalNC as part of the North Carolina Newspapers collection.
The North Carolina Whig, a newspaper published in Charlotte in the 1850s and 1860s, is now available on DigitalNC as part of the North Carolina Newspapers collection.
Visitors to the North Carolina Yearbooks collection today will find a new and improved design. The new look makes it easy to pick the school you’re looking for from a list or by typing the name, and includes recent highlights from yearbooks on the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center’s Flickr collections. The biggest change is that there are now links at the top of the page to two important sections of the site: College and University Yearbooks and the recently-launched High School Yearbooks (more about this soon). Enjoy, and let us know what you think.
Student yearbooks from Richmond Community College are now available on DigitalNC in the North Carolina Yearbooks collection. The college was established in 1964 as Richmond Technical Institute, later changing its name to Richmond Technical College before becoming Richmond Community College in 1987, when the school joined North Carolina’s community college system.
The 1977 edition of The Pine Knot, the yearbook from from Atlantic Christian College, gives an interesting glimpse into the musical tastes of students at the small school in Wilson, N.C., at the time.
Student yearbooks from Atlantic Christian College and Barton College in Wilson, N.C., are now available on DigitalNC as part of the North Carolina Yearbooks Collection.
Big news for alumni of public universities in North Carolina: student yearbooks from all 15 University of North Carolina system universities are now freely available online. Yearbooks for 14 of the schools have been digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and are available in the North Carolina Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC, while yearbooks from North Carolina State University are available through the excellent Historical State digital collection.
Student yearbooks from Western Carolina University are now available on DigitalNC. Ranging in date from 1918 to 2005, the online collection includes 73 volumes. The yearbooks are from the Special Collections department in Hunter Library at Western Carolina.
Western Carolina has many well-known graduates, including author David Sedaris, originally from Raleigh. He didn’t graduate, transferring to Kent State after a year or so, but he did stick around long enough to get his picture in the 1976 edition of The Catamount (p. 239). And it’s quite a picture.
Unlike their neighbors in nearly Lincolnton, the citizens of Charlotte celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of American independence in a style more fitting the occasion. According to the report in the Catawba Journal from July 11, 1826, the festivities began with a march through town by the Lafayette Artillery, followed by a church service and dinner that featured “several of the venerable relics of the revolution.”
I found this announcement in the Catawba Journal from July 4, 1826, about the town of Lincolnton’s celebration of the Fourth of July. Fireworks and parades were not on the agenda — quite the opposite. The organizers wrote that “economy ought to characterize the celebration of the 4th of July, and that extravagance is contrary to the republican simplicity and patriotic spirit of ’76: therefore, a dinner will be furnished at a very moderate price, so that all may unite in feasting together on this glorious occasion.”
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.