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Browse Over a Century of Literary Magazines From the Students of William Peace University

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With the help of our partners at William Peace University, we are excited to announce that 97 student literary magazines spanning from 1889 to 2024 are now available on DigitalNC. Although living in different worlds and times, generations of students at William Peace University were brought together through producing and reading publications such as this student literary magazine. As with the name of the university itself, the student literary magazine underwent several name changes throughout the years. DigitalNC browsers can view the entirety of this collection here, or, can browse issues from specific titles iterations with the guide below.

William Peace University student literary magazine titles:

The cover of the 1889 December issue of Voices of Peace.
A yellow magazine cover featuring scrawled writing that says "The Papyrus". A simple drawn pen is featured below the title.
The cover of the 2024 issue of Prism. The colorful pink cover page has a crayon like texture and features a drawing of a gray fridge. On the fridge are magnets, notes, and pictures. The title "Prism" cuts just across the top of the fridge.
Covers and titles of William Peace University’s student literary magazine over time.

More information about our partner, William Peace University, can be found on their website here. 

More materials including over 100 years of the campus yearbook The Lotus can be found on William Peace University’s contributor page, which is linked here.

Browse New Yearbooks and Newspapers from Edenton Now!

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Thanks to the help of our partners at Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library, we are pleased to announce that two new years of The Chowan Herald (Edenton, N.C.) and six new volumes of Edenton High School’s yearbook, Edentonian, are now available to browse on DigitalNC. The 101 newly-added issues of The Chowan Herald span from 2020 to 2021. These two years of weekly issues add to the 85 years of issues already available on DigitalNC!

Newly added years of the Edentonian include:

Front cover of the Edentonian [1953]. The cover is a forest green color and includes the title "Edentonian '53" in white text. An image of a ship is embossed on the lower right quarter of the cover.
Front cover of the Edentonian [1954]. The light blue cover features a white banner that showcases the title "The Edentonian" in dark blue text. The right side of the yearbook cover also features a white embossed illustration of two graduates.
Front cover of the Edentonian [1955]. The dark red cover contains minimal geometric lines embossed along the left hand and bottom edges to create a border-like design. The title "The Edentonian" is written in black text, underneath a decorative "E" encased in a black oval.
Front cover of the Edentonian [1956]. This black yearbook cover features the title "The Edentonian" prominently featured near the bottom of the cover in a white, decorative script. Two figures wearing graduation attire are embossed in front of an additionally embossed calendar circle.
Front cover of the Edentonian [1957]. This metallic, champagne colored yearbook features the title "The Edentonian" written in red text across the bottom of the cover. Embossed in the upper-middle of the cover is graduation cap and diploma inside of a compass shape. Underneath the compass shape are three embossed books.
Front cover of the Edentonian [1958]. The title "The 1958 Edentonian" is written in black font near the bottom of this yearbook cover. This text is written over a black-and-white image of a high school brick building, which serves as the background for the entire cover.
Front Cover Designs of the Edentonian

More information about our partner, Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library, can be found on their website here. 

More materials, including more yearbook titles and issues of The Chowan Herald (Edenton, N.C.), can be found on Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library’s contributor page, which is linked here.

Bring the Beach to the Mountains With the Latest Yearbook from Blowing Rock Historical Society

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With the help of our partners at Blowing Rock Historical Society we are excited to announce that the 1965 volume of Blowing Rock High School’s yearbook, The Breezes, is now available on DigitalNC. This new addition joins DigitalNC’s pre-existing collection of the The Breezes, which goes back to 1949. Most significantly, The Breezes [1965] represents the memories, goodbyes, and reflections from Blowing Rock High School’s last graduating class.

Although sea motifs are common across yearbooks from North Carolina’s coast, seeing images of ships and anchors is far more unexpected when opening a yearbook from a mountain town. The final students of Blowing Rock High School, however, brought the beach to mountains to pay homage to the beloved school that provided them a safe harbor as they prepared to embark on their own voyages across the seas of learning and life. Scattered amongst the illustrations of anchors and ships in The Breezes [1965] are sentiments on new beginnings, old friends, and bittersweet goodbyes.

A dedication page in The Breezes [1965], which features a large black-and-white illustration of a ship at sea.
The cover of The Breezes [1965]. This image shows a dark green cover, featuring "1965" embossed down the left side and "The Breezes" written in white text across the bottom half of the cover. The rest of the cover features a ship at sea that is illustrated in white.
The title page for the Senior section of The Breezes [1965]. Amongst diagonal font that reads "Seniors of 1965" and the quote "Anchors Aweigh", are three black-and-white anchors that are illustrated across the page.
Nautical Farewells From The Breezes [1965]

More information about our partner, Blowing Rock Historical Society, can be found on their website here. 

More materials, including more yearbook titles, ledgers, voting lists, and two newspaper titles, can be found on Blowing Rock Historical Society’s contributor page, which is linked here.

Plan Your Visit to the Coast with Our Latest Materials From Hyde County!

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The cover of the Lake Mattamuskeet, Hyde Mainland [1965-1966] guide book. The cover features a picture of a white lighthouse, framed by a tree branch. Additionally, the cover features light yellow text that reads "Lake Mattamuskeet, Hyde Mainland 1965-66. Ocracoke, Hyde Coast"
Cover of the Lake Mattamuskeet, Hyde Mainland [1965-1966] Guide Book

With help from our partners at Friends of Hyde Countys Historic 1854 Courthouse, we are excited to announce dozens of brochures, maps, and other materials related to local Hyde County history, events and sites are now available on DigitalNC!

When planning your next visit to the coast, look no further than the information-packed brochures and maps that represent a long history of tourism in Hyde County. In addition to these materials, four binders document the history of Mattamuskeet Lodge from 1990-2000 to 2001-2017, publications featuring the lodge, and the history of the lodge’s annual event, Swan Days. Also in this batch is a 1960s guidebook that features information about activities such as bird watching, hunting, and fishing around Lake Mattamuskeet, Ocracoke Island, and Hyde County.

The final gem in this newest batch of materials from the Friends of Hyde Countys Historic 1854 Courthouse is a chattel mortgage book from the end of the 19th-century. This ledger book, used from 1877 to 1899, records the mortgage contracts and agreements brought before judges and officials across Hyde County. The more than two decade span of entries in this book makes its an incredibly rich source of information about Hyde County in the late 19th-century. It includes mortgage agreements documented by many individual officials who held different posts. Importantly, this can tell us not only the names of officials in Hyde County, but also the structure of the local government during this time. In addition, the agreements recorded in the chattel mortgage book provides a glimpse at the relationships that existed between the residents of Hyde County and offers potential insight into the economic and material realities of the time.

The front cover of the chattel mortgage book. Written in brown on the book's front label is "Chattel Mortgage Record Book No. 2. July 17th, 1877 to Feb 22nd, 1899". The rest of the cover features a golden brown marbled pattern that is worn and flaked in some areas.
A page inside of the Chattel Mortgage Record Book No. 2 which features the documentation a mortgage agreement written and signed by a local official.
Front cover and inside page from the Chattel Mortgage Record Book No. 2

More information about our partner, Friends of Hyde Countys Historic 1854 Courthouse, can be found on their Facebook page here.

More materials, including an report on the historic Hyde County 1854 Courthouse, can be found on the Friends of Hyde Countys Historic 1854 Courthouse’s contributor page, which is linked here.

Catch Up on Some Waves With the Latest Issues of Pine Knoll Shores’ Newspaper, The Shore Line

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With the help of our partners at the History Committee of the Town of Pine Knoll Shores, we are excited to announce that the latest year of The Shore Line is available to browse on DigitalNC. With this addition of 12 monthly issues from 2024, DigitalNC now has 51 years worth of beachside community history to peruse! Be sure to check out exciting stories in these issues like the Pine Knoll Shores Garden Club’s golden anniversary, a Christmas-time pet reunion, “Downright Unbelievable Historical Events in PKS”, and quotes of inspiration from the community!

A clipping from the newspaper's "Downright Unbelievable Historical Events in PKS" section that features two images. The left image shows a painting depicting Napoleon Bonaparte on a rearing horse with an accompanying caption below. The right picture shows a zoomed in photograph of a turtle next to a golf ball on the edge of a water bank. There is also an accompanying caption below the picture.
Some believable (and unbelievable!) history from featured in the April 2024 issue of The Shore Line
An black-and-white photograph from the 1910s featuring Cape Lookout Lighthouse. Three people stand on the beach in the lefthand corner of the photograph. Behind the party, dunes and the large lighthouse take up the left side of the image.
A photo of Cape Lookout Lighthouse featured in the February 2024 issue of The Shore Line

More information about our partner, the History Committee of the Town of Pine Knoll Shores, can be found here.

More materials from the History Committee of the Town of Pine Knoll Shores including maps, correspondences, and booklets can be found here.

More issues of The Shore Line can be explored here.

Publications and Posters from Forsyth Tech Community College!

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A colorful poster that includes skyscrapers, prominent buildings and sites, and people from Winston-Salem that are digitally collaged together.
Winston-Salem Poster

With help from our partners at Forsyth Tech Community College, we are excited to announce that dozens of new materials including newsletters, commencement programs, handbooks, and posters are now available on DigitalNC! This latest batch of materials includes publications from and about Forsyth Tech Community College from 1991 to 2024. Be sure to check out new issues of Information Weekly, the weekly newsletter published by the college, and new issues of InTouch, the faculty and staff newsletter!

More information about our partner, Forsyth Tech Community College, can be found on their website here. 

Information about Forsyth Tech Community College’s Library resources and offerings can be found here.

More materials, including yearbooks, scrapbooks, catalogs, and a newspaper, can be found on Forsyth Tech Community College’s contributor page, which is linked here.

Scrapbooks, Newspapers, and More From High Point!

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The title page of the High Point High School Student Newspaper, The Pointer.
Front page from The Pointer (May 2, 1940)

With the help of our partners at High Point Museum and the Heritage Research Center at High Point Public Library, we are excited to announce the addition of new scrapbooks, programs, newsletters, and newspapers to DigitalNC. New issues of several newspaper titles include the Penn-Griffin School for the Arts Student Newspaper The Students’ Pen, the Adams-Millis Corporation’s Amco News, Melrose Hosiery Mills’ Mel-Rose-Glen, the High Point Junior High School Student Newspaper the Junior Pointer, and the High Point High School Student Newspaper The Pointer.

The cover illustration of the program book for St. Mary's Episcopal Church's 100-year anniversary. The cover features a black-and-white sketch of a church, with a smaller second sketch of church featured in an inset on the bottom righthand corner.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Celebrating 100 Years

Along with several newspaper issues, this latest batch of materials from our partners also includes various religious publications. Local religious history can be seen through programs related to Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church and B’Nai Israel Synagogue. Additionally, The New Tar Heel Bulletin, the newsletter published by the North Carolina Christian Endeavor Union, and The C.E. News Reel, published by the High Point City (Christian Endeavor) Union Executive Committee, represent both local and state chapter publications of the international organization the Christian Endeavor.

New materials available on DigitalNC also relate to other community organizations such as a 1941-1942 directory for the Alpha Art Club, which, founded in 1924, is the oldest-known African American women’s club in the Piedmont Triad area. Additionally, two scrapbooks from the High Point Exchangette Club covers twenty years of the group’s community service activities. A final item, from the Heritage Research Center at High Point Public Library, is a Farm Plat Book and Business Guide of Guilford County that includes maps and the names of landowners around Guilford County.

A page of a book featuring a black-and-white map of Guilford County. The map features major roadways, cities, and landmarks, along with a map legend to the right of the page.
Farm Plat Book and Business Guide, Guilford County, N.C.

More information about our partner, High Point Museum, can be found here. 

More scrapbooks, newspaper titles, yearbooks, and church records can be found on the High Point Museum’s contributor page linked here. 

More information about our partner, Heritage Research Center at High Point Public Library, can be found here. 

Additional materials, including scrapbooks, yearbooks, and directories can be found on the Heritage Research Center at High Point Public Library’s contributor page linked here.

More Issues of The News-Record Are Available Now!

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A section from the front page of the June 28, 1918 issue of The News-Record. A political cartoon, captioned "German Peace," depicts a snake constricting and attacking a standing woman.
Political cartoon from the front page of the June 28, 1918 issue of The News-Record

Thanks to our partners at Madison County Public Library, as well as generous funding from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), we are excited to announce that nearly 600 new issues of The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.) are now available on DigitalNC. These newest additions help fill in 11 years of DigitalNC’s collection of The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.), which includes over 3,500 issues spanning from 1902 to 1988.

A political cartoon titled "The Patriot" from the July 12, 1918 issue of The News-Herald. A young child is seen looking over their shoulder towards a candy store as they stand waiting at the post office window to buy war stamps.
Political cartoon from the front page of the July 12, 1918 issue of The News-Record

DigitalNC visitors can now browse issues from the following years:

More information about our partner, Madison County Public Library, can be found here. 

More collections, including scrapbooks and over 50 yearbooks, can be found on the Madison County Public Library’s contributor page linked here. 

Moore County, More Yearbooks

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Spanning across a left page and right page of the 1956 Pine Burr Yearbook is a picture of the old West End High School (West End, N.C.). The blue-toned panoramic shows the side of the school's main entrance on the left, while another side of the school building stretches and recedes across the right page.
View of West End High School (West End, N.C.) from the 1956 Pine Burr Yearbook

Thanks to our partners at Moore County Historical Association, we are excited to announce the addition of five new yearbooks to DigitalNC. The five yearbooks hail from West End High School (West End, N.C.), which served Moore County students from 1927 to 1969. Despite being closed and then demolished in 1984, these five years of the Pine Burr offer an opportunity to browse some of the places and faces that made West End High School so special!

The following years of the West End High School’s yearbook, the Pine Burr, that are available on DigitalNC are:

More information about our partner, Moore County Historical Association, can be found here. 

More yearbooks can be found on the Moore County Historical Association’s contributor page linked here. 

A Sneak Peek at Some Phenomenal Photos from Queens University of Charlotte

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This image prominently features a large metal sign that says "QUEENS COLLEGE". Below the sign, groups of college students are shown walking around the campus quad.
Queens College of Charlotte Sign with Campus in the Background

Thanks to our partners at Queens University of Charlotte, we are excited to announce the addition of over 300 images from the Queens University of Charlotte Archives. These images were scanned last December during an onsite visit to our partner in Charlotte. In addition to receiving a warm welcome and campus library tour, the NCDHC staff had a wonderful time browsing the milieu of campus life represented by the decades-worth of photographs that we had the opportunity to scan. Featured below is a selection of the new photographs now available on DigitalNC. Be sure to browse through all of our latest additions from Queens University of Charlotte, which are linked here.

A circular cutout image of four people laying on the ground with their heads touching is pasted onto the lens area in a picture of camera.
Photographers for the Coronet Yearbook 1977-1978
A college student looks through the lens of a microscope.
Queens College Student Using a Microscope
This sepia-toned photograph shows several people dressed in formal attire standing behind tables that are intricately decorated for an event.
Prenuptial Party at Withers Home

More information about our partner, Queens University of Charlotte, can be found on their website here. Additional information about the Queens University of Charlotte Archives and Special Collections can be found here.

More materials, including yearbooks, scrapbook, more photographs, and a newspaper title, can be found on Queens University of Charlotte’s contributor page, which is linked here.

Visitors can browse even more photographs from Queens University of Charlotte by checking out their Digital Archives found here.

Nine college students sit inside and on top of a convertible car while holding two white banners that read "SOPHOMORES" and "CLASS OF '52"
Sophomore Class of Queens College of Charlotte in 1950
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