This week we have almost 30 newspaper titles added to DigitalNC. These titles include a Raleigh paper about agriculture and it’s “kindred arts,” an employee paper for North Carolina shipbuilders during World War II, and plenty of others from Wilmington, Raleigh, and New Bern!
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on
Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions are the following:
- The North-Carolina Gazette (New Bern, N.C.) – 1751-1774
- Wilmington Gazette (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1816
- The Newbernian (New Bern, N.C.) – 1849-1853
- The Daily Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871-1872
- The Daily Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1872-1873
- The Carolina Era (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1871
- The Farmer and Mechanic (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1899
- New Berne Times (New Bern, N.C.) – 1873
- The People’s Press and Wilmington Advertiser (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1835-1841
- The Daily Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1856-1857
- The Sun (New Bern, N.C.) – 1908-1914
- Eastern Carolina Republican (New Bern, N.C.) – 1850-1851
- Republican and Patriot (New Bern, N.C.) – 1851-1852
- Daily Progress (New Bern, N.C.) – 1862-1863
- The Democratic Signal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1843-1844
- North Carolina Christian Advocate (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1856-1858
- New Berne Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882-1883
- New Bern Semi-Weekly Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1914
- The Daily Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1865-1866
- The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1867
- The Evening Dispatch (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1895-1916
- New Berne Journal (New Bern, N.C.) – 1882
- The Arator (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1855-1857
- The North Carolina Shipbuilder (Wilmington, N.C.) – 1942-1946
- The Star (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1808-1815
- The Star and North Carolina Gazette (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1816-1834
- Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1875-1884
- Daily State Journal (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1862-1865
- The Raleigh Sentinel (Raleigh, N.C.) – 1876
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.