Our new partner, Sampson Community College, has contributed a series of images that are now available on DigitalNC. Sampson Community College was established in 1965 as an extension unit of Goldsboro Industrial Education Center. In 1972, it became an independent unit and took on the Sampson name. Over the years, it has undergone many expansions and now serves over 5,000 traditional and extension students.

Nursing students with a skills training manikin

Students using computers in a classroom

This series of photographs show many aspects of life at Sampson Community College through the years, including classes, graduation ceremonies, athletic teams, and student clubs. Many photographs also document the construction of the West Building and the South Building in 1987 and 1988.

Aerial view of Sampson Community College showing construction site

Student receiving diploma

To learn more about Sampson Community College, visit their website, or their explore their collection on DigitalNC.

Over 300 new photos from the M.S. Brown Collection are now on DigitalNC courtesy of the Edgecombe County Memorial Library. M.S. Brown was an avid amateur photographer, and these new additions document a wide variety of aspects of daily life in Tarboro and Edgecombe County. Included are new photographs of Tarboro High School, the Tarboro town clock, businesses in Tarboro, portraits of Tarboro citizens, and much more.

A folder of M.S. Brown memorabilia is also now available, which includes “The M.S.B. March”, an original piece of music composed by Roy L. Russel and dedicated to M.S. Brown in light of all of his important contributions to the Tarboro community.

To learn more about the MS Brown collection, view previous posts about materials digitized from it here.  To learn more about Edgecombe County Memorial Library, visit their partner page here.