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.
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.
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.
