Central Carolina Community College, Electronics Engineering Technology Students

Batch 3 of Central Carolina Community College’s photos are now available on DigitalNC. These images document the Drafting and Design, Electronics Engineering, Child Care, Drivers Education, and Continuing Education programs.

The exhibit, A Pictorial History of Central Carolina Community College, now has nearly 1400 hundred photos. Ranging from the early 1960’s to the late 1990’s, the photos document the academic lives and activities of students at the college. Many of the photos include descriptive metadata with the names of individuals that are depicted. This batch is teeming with unique images of this active and diverse community.

To learn more about Central Carolina Community College, the programs it offers, and the students, please contributor page or the website. To see more images like these, check out the Images of North Carolina Collection.

Central Carolina Technical College Day Care

Police Science students, 1980s

Electronics Engineering Student

A couple tries out different poses for their Christmas card photo

Waiting until the last minute to get out your holiday cards?  Perhaps these photographs from the Albert Rabil, Jr. Collection from Braswell Memorial Library will provide some inspiration.  Is it better to be peeking out from behind a door, or standing next to it? How about dressing up like a cowboy? Click here to browse through some other Christmas themed photos on DigitalNC.

A family poses for a Christmas card photo on their front steps

Cosmetology Students, 1983

More than 300 photos have been added to DigitalNC. They are additions to a new exhibit, Pictorial History of Central Carolina Community College.

The photos document teachers and students at CCCC during the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. This batch specifically highlights students in the cosmetology, computer technology, and business administration programs. The photos also have excellent descriptions, often including the names of the students and teachers. Be on the lookout as we add more photos to this collection over the next few months.

To learn more about Central Carolina Community College, please visit their contributor page or their website. To see more photos like this, check out the Images of North Carolina Collection.

Bill Haley in Class, late 1970’s

The circulation records of an ambitious student

What books were popular in school libraries over 100 years ago? New material from the Wilson County Public Library give us a fascinating glimpse into the reading habits of young people around the turn of the century. A book of circulation records from Wilson School’s Spring 1899 term details loan records from more than 250 students, showing what they read and when. Popular choices included books still well-known today such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, as well as less currently read volumes such as Young Maids and Old by Clara Louise Burnham.

Wilson County Public Library has also contributed a set of portraits of Reverend Owen L.W. Smith, and his wife Dora Oden Smith. Reverend Smith was born as an enslaved person 1851, but as a young man ran away to join the Union Army when General Sherman marched through the south. He had an impressive and varied career as a school teacher, a Justice of the Peace, a lawyer, a preacher, and the Consul General to Liberia for two terms. He passed away in 1926 in Wilson County.

To learn more about Wilson County Public Library, and see other materials they’ve contributed to DigitalNC, visit their partner page.

Reverend Owen L.W. Smith

Crowd at the 1946 State Singing Convention

Honey Ellen and Itha Mae Stephenson, 1945asdasd

More photos from the Benson Museum of Local History are now available on DigitalNC. The subjects of this batch range from formal family portraits, to candid snapshots of daily life in Benson, to photos of community dinners and gatherings.

There are also many photographs documenting musical events in Benson, including WTVD’s “Saturday Night Alive” show during the 1940s and 50s, and Benson’s State Annual Singing Convention, an event that started almost a hundred years ago, and still occurs annually. According to the Convention’s website, “The State Annual Singing Convention… began modestly in a tobacco warehouse in 1921. About 200 people listened to two choirs that day. Since that time, the State Annual Singing Convention has grown and become one of the largest and oldest gospel sings in the United States.” In this new set of photos, you can see images of the Convention through the years.

To see other materials from the Benson Museum of Local History, visit their contributor page, or take a look at their website.

The first batch of photographs depicting student life and academics at Central Carolina Community College are now online.  The photographs date from the 1960s to the 1990s and show primarily students studying agriculture, accounting, automotive mechanics, and broadcasting.  This group of photographs was the first of many that we will be digitizing for Central Carolina, which is located in Sanford, North Carolina in Lee County.

To learn more about our partner Central Carolina Community College and see other materials they have had digitized, visit their partner page here.  To view more photographs contributed by institutions all over the state, visit our Images of North Carolina collection.

Newnam Tenant House, front 1982

Pritchett House, side 1982

DigitalNC has added the last set of slides from the Early Rockingham County Architecture Collection. This collection of slides, provided by Rockingham Community College, was taken in the 1980s and includes images of homes, schools, businesses, factories, mills, farms, churches, and many other historic buildings in Rockingham. While some of these buildings have since been demolished, many are standing today and information on dates of the buildings as well as location are included in the image descriptions. The new set of slides focuses mainly on images of historic homes and plantations like the Thomas Ratliffe House, Willow Oaks, and the Lower Sauratown Plantation. While most of the slides show the exteriors of buildings, there are also many interior shots of architectural details, like stairways and fireplaces.  To learn more about previous sets we have put online, view blog posts here and here.

Check out the newly added and previous slides in the Early Rockingham County Architecture Collection, and learn more about Rockingham Community College on the contributor page or by visiting their website. If you are interested in Rockingham County history, also take a look at the Rockingham County Legacy exhibit.

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.