Viewing entries posted in April 2015

Ledgers from Alamance County Public Libraries Now Available!

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Pages 436-437 of the Alamance County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Records Book B. These page covers the years 1909 – 1920.

Ledgers belonging to the Alamance County Branch of The Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Association of North Carolina are now available online. The ledgers include bills paid, endorsement reports, and statements of Mortgagee Clauses with Full Contribution. Also included is a Records Index for three of the ledgers (Volumes 1 & 2 and Book C). Related to these fire insurance ledgers is a selection of letters, insurance policies, and a list of insured schools. The objects’ dates range from 1903 to 1934.

This might be of interest to genealogists, as the volumes list names and property locations that are text searchable.

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Fire Insurance Policy of John A. Trolinger, April 18, 1903

Browse more items from Alamance County Public Libraries here.


New Photos from the M.S. Brown Collection now online!

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M.S. Brown on the far left presenting an award at WCPS Radio Station.

The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has recently scanned and made available online a new batch of photographs from Tarboro photographer M.S. “Coca-Cola” Brown. Brown managed the local Coca-Cola plant, hence the nickname. For more information on him and the photos that are in his collection, view the M.S. Brown exhibit page.

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Beard-growing for the Tarboro Celebration

The latest batch of digitized photographs from Mr. Brown depict a wide variety of activities surrounding the lives of Tarboro citizens, including more photographs of swimmers, a man growing a beard for a Tarboro celebration (seen above), a local chicken farm, and two local radio stations. Many of the pictures feature individuals drinking Coca-Cola from the classic glass bottles.

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Swim Team Awards

The photographs in this exhibit are part of an ongoing project with the Edgecombe County Memorial Library. For more information and a look at other batches of photos from this collection, there are two previous blog posts about the M.S. Brown exhibit which can be found on our website, “New M.S. Brown Photos Online: Tarboro Community Pool, Bathing Beauties and More,” and “Photographs from the M.S. Brown Collection Now Available.”


Additional Photographs and Scrapbooks from Montgomery County Now on DigitalNC

Additional photographs and scrapbooks highlighting Montgomery County’s local history are now available online. Many of these items share subject matter with other materials already on DigitalNC.org.

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Page 23 from the Marionette Scrapbook, featuring the January 1967 class.

A new Marionette Scrapbook joins the already published 13 scrapbooks that belonged to Helen Poole, who taught the puppets class to sixth graders at Troy Elementary for several years. This scrapbook features photographs and performance programs from 1955-1974. Other new scrapbooks include Troy Music Club scrapbooks from the mid to late 1960s, Troy Civic Council – the 1971-1972 addition to already available Civic Council scrapbooks, Troop #243 Scrapbook, and a page from the Biscoe Woman’s Club: The Beginnings.

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Town of Biscoe Veteran Harvey T. Luquire

Several more Town of Biscoe Veterans photographs are now available, featuring servicemen and women from Biscoe, North Carolina and the surrounding areas. Other Town of Biscoe Photographs were added, which include historical buildings and businesses of Biscoe, North Carolina, and the photograph of Pallie Atkins and Willard Atkins who resided in the Love Joy community.

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Programs on American Home: The Woman’s Club Year Book, 1936-1937

Lastly, we have added annual reports, a scrapbook, and some other items to the Montgomery County Public Library digital collection. The Woman’s Club Year Books are annual reports for the woman’s club from years 1935-1936, 1936-1937, and 1948-1949.  There’s also several items related to the Word Magic! workshops. Held at the Montgomery County Public Library, Word Magic! was a summer workshop led by poet Phillip Shabazz about reading and writing poetry to 14 Montgomery County fourth and fifth graders. The scrapbook contains general information about the summer workshop. The Word Magic! Poetry Booklet contains a collection of poetry created by the session’s students, and the newspaper article features a short overview of the program as well as pictures of its participants.

To browse all of the materials from Montgomery County Public Library, please visit here.


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