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Students Tell Their Stories in Person County!

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Commemoration Booklet of Student Activities at Roxboro High School from 1929 to 1930
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Front page of the 1961 R.E.S Gazette from Roxboro Elementary School.

Take a deep dive into students’ lives with new additions of newspapers, yearbooks, and so much more from the Person County Museum of History. This batch includes a variety of materials, including catalogs and school yearbooks, like The Hilltopper from Bethel High and The Rocket from Roxboro High.

Also included in this collection of materials are newspapers from Roxboro Elementary (The R.E.S Gazette, 1961), the historically Black elementary school in the county; Person County High School (The Panther, 1961-1969); and Roxboro High School (Rocket, 1953). It is interesting to see the different topics of conversation from elementary students to high school. From diving into the Christmas holiday to stories about students on campus, each of these newspapers gives a small preview into students’ lives in Person County.

The yearbooks in this batch range from 1921-1969 and represent nine schools across Person county. While many are from Roxboro, others come from Woodsdale, Timberlake, Allensville, Hurdle Mills, and Olive Hill.

Digital NC would like to thank our partner, the Person County Museum of History, for allowing us to help make available these new materials. To see more from Person County Museum of History, visit their website or their partner page!

Be sure to check out our wide variety of high school yearbooks, newspapers, and more on Digital NC!

Boy and Girl Scouts of America Photographs and Scrapbooks Now Available on DigitalNC

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Thanks to our partner, Chapel Hill Historical Society, a batch containing three scrapbooks and over 100 slides featuring trips and experiences of Chapel Hill Boy Scout Troop 835 and Girl Scout Troop 59 are now available on our website.

The scrapbook topics include Troop 835 in the news; the life of Scoutmaster, Paul B. Trembley; and Troop 835’s trip to Europe in 1968. Traveling numerous places from North Carolina to Canada, the slides in this batch show stunning and silly images of the troop’s trips and experiences taken from the late 1950s to early 1990s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                   

To view more materials from the Chapel Hill Historical Society, please visit the DigitalNC Chapel Hill Historical Society material page.

To learn more about the Chapel Hill Historical Society, please visit the Chapel Hill Historical Society website.

To learn more about the history of Troop 835, please visit the Troop 835 website.

Two Additional Years of the Wilson Trees on Digital NC!

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Trees of Wilson Newsletter for the Wilson County Genealogical Society, January 2018.

New additions of the Trees of Wilson from 2018 and 2019 through the Wilson County Genealogical Society are now available on Digital NC. In addition, the local newsletter is sent out to community members interested in genealogy projects for Wilson County.

Many newsletters include detailed research on specific families and organizations within Wilson County, including stories they have found on specific individuals and a list of obituaries.

Still active today, the Wilson County Genealogical Society’s mission is to promote genealogy by educating its members and the general public. Check their website for additional information on their work within Wilson County.

To see the other newsletters in our collection, visit them here. 

 

 

 

Lena Martin Photo Collection along with Wide Variety of Items Added from Edgecombe County Memorial Library

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black and white photograph of a snowy downtown with adults sitting in a boat drawn by two horses
“A Boat Put in Service”https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/242258

Photos, genealogical research, and a scrapbook make up this latest batch from Edgecombe County Memorial Library. The images were scanned by the library’s staff, who requested they be added to DigitalNC.

Over 500 loose photos of Edgecombe County document people, town scenes, architecture, views of the Tar River, the tobacco industry, and notable events. There are some really compelling 19th century images, including a bird’s eye view of Tarboro, Princeville during one of the Tar River floods, and the burning of the Bryan House Hotel.

The Lena Martin Pennington photo collection is an additional 384 photos of Edgecombe County dating from the late 1800s-early 1900s. Almost all of the photos were annotated by Pennington with brief descriptions.

Here are some additional items in this batch:

You can view all of the items Edgecombe County Memorial Library has shared on DigitalNC through their contributor page.

Catalogs and Bulletins detail Student Education at Shaw University

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Front Cover Catalog

Front Cover of the Shaw University Catalog for the 1918 – 1919 school year.

Digital NC is happy to announce new materials from Shaw University, located in Raleigh, NC. Known as the first and oldest HBCU in North Carolina, the new materials include college catalogs and bulletins from the 1920s until the 2000s.

In each bulletin are courses of study, requirements for students entering the university, a list of faculty and staff, and a list of students currently enrolled. It is interesting to see the university’s differences and growth during this period. For example, during the 1918 – 1919 school year, students would take courses in English, Mathematics, Latin, Chemistry, and Public Speaking. During the 2003 – 2004 school year, Shaw University added a graduate division and Divinity School to their course of study for students.

To learn more about Shaw University, visit them here.

Check out other materials from Shaw University and other memorabilia for HBCUs in North Carolina on Digital NC by clicking on the right-hand corner!

Front Cover Catalog

The front cover of the 2003 – 2004 school year catalog for Shaw University.

 

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