Thanks to our partner, Surry Community College, yearbooks from Lowgap High School are now available on our website. This batch includes yearbooks from the years 1950, 1951, and 1955 to 1959.
To learn more about the Surry County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
Thanks to our partner, Burke County Public Library, a batch containing yearbooks from Oak High School, West Concord High School, Glen Alpine High School, and Morganton High School are now available on our website.
To learn more about Burke County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
Thanks to our partner, Randolph County Public Library, the North Carolina College for Women’s (now UNC-Greensboro) 1925 yearbook is now available on our website.
Cover of the 1925 Pine Needles yearbook
To learn more about the Randolph County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
Thanks to our partner, Person County Public Library, Roxboro High School, Person High School, and Person County High School yearbooks from the years 1957 to 1970 are now available on our website.
To learn more about the Person County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
Back in December, we announced our annual call for microfilmed newspaper digitization. We asked institutions throughout North Carolina to nominate papers they’d like to see added to DigitalNC. As it is every year, it was an incredibly tough choice – we are typically able to choose between 40-60 reels out of over 500+ nominated. This year we’ve chosen the following titles and years.
| Title | Years | Nominating Institution |
|---|---|---|
| The Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.) | 1942-1949 | Elkin Public Library |
| The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.) | 1943-1954 | Martin Community College and Martin Memorial Public Library |
| Gates County Index (Gatesville, N.C.) | 1942-1956 | Gates County Public Library |
| Green Line (Asheville, N.C.) | 1987-1994 | Buncombe County Public Libraries |
| The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.) | 1944-1964 | Orange County Public Library |
| The Pamlico News (Bayboro, N.C.) | 1976-1987 | New Bern-Craven County Public Library |
| The Pilot (Southern Pines, N.C.) | 1965-1968 | Southern Pines Public Library |
| The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) | 1911-1925 | Johnston County Heritage Center |
| The Wallace Enterprise (Wallace, N.C.) | 1931-1955 | Thelma Dingus Bryant Library |
| Winston-Salem Chronicle (Charlotte, N.C.) | 2017-2018 | Forsyth County Public Library |
For our selection criteria, we prioritize newspapers that document underrepresented communities, new titles, papers that come from a county that currently has little representation on DigitalNC, and papers nominated by new partners. After selection, we ask the partners to secure permission for digitization and, if that’s successful, they make it into the final list above.
We hope to have these titles coming online in the first half of 2021. If your title didn’t make it this year don’t despair! We welcome repeat submissions, and plan on sending out another call in Fall 2021.
Full-page illustration in The Cherokee Scout, December 14, 1928.
As 2020 comes to a close (hooray!), all of us are wishing for many things in the coming year, whether it’s as simple as a meal with family or as grand as international travel. In the spirit of intention setting, and for a little escapism, we thought it would be fun to search through the DigitalNC newspaper collection for accounts of wishes from years past. What was found were an abundance “Dear Santa”s, funny and touching wish lists from children (and a few adults) to the man in red, printed in local newspapers in the hopes they would be seen and granted. Some holiday wishes also snuck in, too. So, like a virtual, time-traveling wishing tree, here is a collection of entertaining messages to bring a little cheer.
Dear Santa,
I would like to rub Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I have never seen him. I love you and your reindeer. I would like a race car.
Please put it under my Christmas tree. My brother wood like some money left under the tree. Mom wants a ring. Dad wants three wishes.
Kevin Crisco, 1st Grade
Dear Santa,
I like you because you have been nice to me for six years. Look good because you may be surprised. This year, I want a typewriter and a new desk.
Love Your Friend,
Natalie (Tyner), 1st Grade
P.S. Thanks for giving toys to me, my friends, and all kids.
Dear Santa,
I want a bike for Christmas and a teddy bear and a little cat, too. I like your deer because they are fun to play with.
Karima Freeman, 2nd Grade
Danbury, N.C.. Dec. 16.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a small girl, but my wants are many. I would like some flower vases, box of stationary, some candy, oranges, and nuts. Your devoted friend,
Annie Campell.
Dear Santa,
How are you? Are your reindeer and elves good? My name is Kevin Tsui. I am eight years old and I live with my mom and dad, and brother. The school that I go to is North School. I am a good boy and I am a good student in school. What I want for Christmas is a Sega CD and Mortal Combat II, a Panther hat, a Secret Sender 6000, a Dell computer and a NERF Ballzooka, a model Porche, Sega game gear, a Kasparov MK12 chess computer, and a NERF Arrowstorm.
Love, Kyle Tsui
Student opinion poll: Bellespeak
What is the ideal Christmas present?
Rose L. Coleman
First-Year
Business
Chicago, Ill.
“A car and my tuition paid.”
Amanda Henley
Junior
Political Science
Harrisburg, Pa.
“My ideal Christmas present would be to have my college debt paid off.”
Dear Santa,
I have been a very good boy. Please bring me a watch and all the transformers and space things and everything else you can think of.
Drew Howell
Dear Santa,
Please bring me five things: Fish Stick, Cabbage Patch Doll, Swing, Bicycle, Paint Brush.
Dennisha Edwards
Dear Santa Claus,
My age is seven. I weigh 55 pounds. I will leave some food out for you. I am 4 ft. 2 in. tall. My favorite TV program is a Christmas Parade. My favorite food is fruits. I want for Christmas oranges, apples and grapes and five surprises.
I love you,
Kathy Lynn Matthews
Norlina, N.C.
Dear Santa,
I’m hungry. I’ve tried to be a good girl this year, and I would have too, without this damned roach incident. Claus-man, when I put that bug on Hope’s plate in Lenoir, I though[t] she’d see it before it got to her mouth. Some folks just can’t take a joke. Anyway I haven’t eaten since Sunday, and I was hoping you’d make an early run this year to bring me some food, nothing fancy, some gruel or porridge will suffice. I’ll be waiting at the bus stop on Stadium Drive. (I’ll be the one with ribs poking through her jacket.
See ya soon, (tonight?), Annice
Holiday wishes:
I want a half inch of snow on Christmas morning and sunshine in the afternoon.
-Dr. Rebecca Duncan
I want a basket full of kittens and unlimited Starbucks coffee.
-Jessica Feltner
If you’re interested in looking for some more “Dear Santa”s, try searching “dear santa” or “Christmas wish” in the quick search bar on our newspaper collection page. Try the advanced search if you’re looking for specific years. In addition, The Kings Mountain Herald has a gigantic collection of “Dear Santa” messages. From 1981 onwards, you can find them in the last issue of the year.
A clipping of a photo of animals and an icy pond at Johnston Community College in 1996.
Approximately 130 photographs from Johnston Community College have been digitized and are now available online, adding to our vast collection of Johnston Community College photos. This batch is from the mid-1990s, highlighting Johnston Community College’s campus, staff, educational programs, and various events.
Quilting at the 1995 Johnston Community College Christmas Open House.
Annual events, such as Week of the Young Child, were especially prevalent in this upload. Most frequent were the Christmas open houses. While each Christmas open house showcases festivities and decorations, a common thread through the years are the extravagant quilting displays. In several shots, people demonstrate their quilting techniques for onlookers.
This batch also includes photos of retirement parties, the nursing department, and the truck driver training program as they go for test drives around the community. Construction of both the softball field and health building are documented. Additionally, there are photos of the open house for the new Cleveland Campus.
Bagpipe player Reit McPherson at the Johnston Community College 1996 Christmas Open House.
To see all of the photographs in this batch, click here. To learn more about Johnston Community College, visit their partner page here or their website here.
Thanks to our partner, Henderson County Public Library, new Edneyville High School and Blue Ridge School for Boys yearbooks are now available on our website. The issues added include 1948, 1951-1952, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1965-1969 for Edneyville High School and 1926-1928, 1952-1953, 1964-1968 for the Blue Ridge School for Boys.
To learn more about the Henderson County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
Thanks to our partner, Durham County Library, the 1966 to 1970 issues of the Durham High School yearbook are now available on our website. This set of yearbooks spans when Durham High was integrated and offers some hints at how the students viewed the change.
Thanks to our partner, Granville County Public Library, a batch containing yearbooks from Dabney High School, Henderson High School, Franklinton High School, J.F. Webb High School, and Zeb Vance High School ranging from 1938 to 1970 are now available on our website.
To learn more about the Granville County Public Library, please visit their website.
For more yearbooks from across North Carolina, visit our yearbook collection.
This blog is maintained by the staff of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and features the latest news and highlights from the collections at DigitalNC, an online library of primary sources from organizations across North Carolina.
![One of the holiday messages sent to the Daily Tar Heel. It reads: Dear Santa, I'm hungry. I've tried to be a good girl this year, and I would have too, without this damned roach incident. Claus-man, when I put that bug on Hope's plate in Lenoir, I though[t] she'd see it before it got to her mouth. Some folks just can't take a joke. Anyway I haven't eaten since Sunday, and I was hoping you'd make an early run this year to bring me some food, nothing fancy, some gruel or porridge will suffice. I'll be waiting at the bus stop on Stadium Drive. (I'll be the one with ribs poking through her jacket. See ya soon, (tonight?), Annice](https://www.digitalnc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-14-at-12.33.04-PM-300x152.png)
