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Floods in North Carolina

While North Carolina has fortunately not seen anything this year like the terrible floods currently affecting the Mississippi River, our state is no stranger to the tragedy and disaster caused by flooding. The Images of North Carolina collection currently has 98 different photos of floods and flood damage, showing floods in Rocky Mount, Ashe County, and Davie County.

This image, from the Charles S. Killebrew collection at the Braswell Memorial Library (Rocky Mount, N.C.), shows downtown Rocky Mount in 1962.

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UNC-Pembroke Yearbooks Now Online

Student yearbooks from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke are now available online on DigitalNC.org. UNC-Pembroke traces its founding to 1887 when the Croatan Normal School was established in Robeson County. College courses were added in the 1920s and the first four-year degree was given in 1940. Until 1953 it was the only state-sponsored four-year college for Native Americans in the country. Pembroke State University joined the University of North Carolina system in 1972 and changed its name to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1996.

The yearbooks presented on DigitalNC are from the collections of the Mary Livermore Library.
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UNC-Asheville Yearbooks Now Online

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Thirty-nine volumes of “The Summit,” the student yearbook from Asheville-Buncombe College and the University of North Carolina at Asheville are now available online. These volumes cover the years 1939-1985 and include the period when the school was known as the “College in the Sky” due to its impressive home in Seely’s Castle on Sunset Mountain. The school moved to the castle in 1949, eventually outgrowing it and moving to its current campus, at the site of the Civil War Battle of Asheville, in 1961.

The yearbooks are part of the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections & University Archives at UNC-Asheville.


Early Elon Scrapbooks Available Online

Eight early scrapbooks from Elon College (now Elon University) are now available online. These scrapbooks were prepared by Elon students and contain a fascinating array of materials, including photos, programs, menus, letters, telegrams, and even a few report cards. All of these volumes are from prior to 1923, when a large fire swept the campus, destroying the Main Building, library, and chapel.

These scrapbooks are great fun to browse and will be of interest to anyone curious about college life in the early 20th century.

Images from the Mary Margaret Miller Hardcastle Scrapbook


Driverless Car Parade

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These photos, from the Transylvania County Library, are both labeled “Driverless Car Parade, 1937.” What in the world is a driverless car parade? The cars, as far as I can tell, have drivers. Any ideas?




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