New yearbooks from the Wendell Historical Society have been added to DigitalNC. The 17 yearbooks are from Wendell High School, located in Wake County, NC, and they date from 1943 to 1965. Called “Echoes,” the yearbooks include portraits of students from first grade through senior year and feature candid shots and group shots of clubs and teams. You can view more Wendell High School yearbooks here.
The Girls Basketball Team from Kannapolis High School, 1928
Cabarrus County Public Library’s newest contributions to DigitalNC include nearly 90 high school yearbooks. They range from the the mid-1920’s through the early 1960’s, the edge of DigitalNC’s 50 year date embargo for yearbooks. Each gives a unique look at the culture of young people during the period, especially that of young women
From the cropped bobs of the 20’s to the big bouffants of the 60’s, the yearbooks are galleries of teenagers displaying their most fashionable styles for the camera. From the basketball court to the band, high school girls marked the change in style over the decades, even in small towns in North Carolina.
Check out all the fashion and cultural changes throughout high schools in North Carolina by browsing the North Carolina Yearbooks Collection.
You can see all of the recently added yearbooks from Cabarrus County below:
Letter girls from the A.L. Brown High School Band, 1965
To see more items from Cabarrus County Public Library, visit their contributor’s page or their website.
Featured Left to Right: Newsletter from Robeson Technical Institute, 1983; Program Promotion Poster, 2000; Program from Cosmetology Department Event, 1978
More than one hundred new items from Robeson Community College are now available on DigitalNC. Formerly known as Robeson Technical College, the college’s latest contributions include a wide assortment of newsletters, programs, advertisements, maps, posters, and images. These document the activities in and around the campus community from the late 1970’s to present.
These items could be useful for anyone interested in Community College programming, which might be helpful for researching small or local economies. They could also be useful for those interested in genealogy research in the Lumberton, N.C. area or Robeson County.
To see all the contributions from Robeson Community College, please visit their contributor page or the their website. To see all of the other campus publications and yearbooks from North Carolina hosted on DigitalNC, please visit the North Carolina Yearbooks Collections.
Myers Park High School yearbook, Mustang, 1958 spread on school spirit.
Additional Charlotte, N.C. yearbooks, provided by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, are now digitized and available on DigitalNC.
Two yearbooks come from Myers Park High School, which opened in 1951. The yearbooks, titled “Mustang” are from 1958 and 1959. Fifteen of the digitized yearbooks come from Charlotte Technical High School, the years 1929 (the school’s first yearbook), 1931, 1940-1946, 1949, and 1951-1954. The yearbooks include photos of students and staff as well as clubs, sports, and other activities around campus.
These are the first yearbooks we have digitized and uploaded from both Myers Park High School and Charlotte Technical High School. You can view all of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s yearbooks here.
Students on the lawn of B. F. Grady High School in 1960.
The 1945 edition of Overflow dedicates a page to students leaving for WWII.
The NC Digital Heritage Center has partnered with Grady-Outlaw Memorial Library, a new partner, to digitize yearbooks from B.F. Grady High School in Seven Springs and Albertson, N.C. The yearbooks are now available online in the North Carolina Yearbooks collection. Yearbooks from Seven Springs, N.C. are from 1943 to 1947 and those from Albertson, N.C. are from 1953 to 1962. The yearbooks, called “Overflow,” include photographs of students, staff, faculty, sports, clubs, and other activities. Spanning two decades, the yearbooks reflect changes in North Carolina and America over the years.
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine yearbooks are now available on DigitalNC. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine was established in 1879, but these are the only six yearbooks that have been produced. Called “The Tarhealer,” the yearbook was published from 1987-1992. More so than the traditional yearbook, these focus on snapshots captured in everyday life over posed portraits. Medical students are seen in daily life, taking classes, studying, in lab, relaxing — and performing sketches. On this page, UNC School of Medicine alumnus, Ken Jeong, is performing alongside fellow students. He is now known for his roles in Community, The Hangover, and Dr. Ken, a show based on his experiences as a doctor.
You can view more year books from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill here.
Now famous actor Ken Jeong is among the cast of medical students in a sketch performance, from The Tarhealer 1992.
Here at DigitalNC, we digitize high school yearbooks that are at least 50 years old. We’re pleased to have added yearbooks from our long-time partner, Alamance County Public Libraries, filling in books from the mid-1960s that are now out of our “embargo” period:
These are the first books on our site from Western Alamance High School, which opened for the 1962-1963 school year. You can view all of the yearbooks that Alamance County Public Libraries has shared on DigitalNC via their contributor page.
The Stanly County Museum has provided a number of additional high school yearbooks and directories for the city of Albemarle to be added to DigitalNC. The yearbooks come from Albemarle High School, Norwood High School (now South Stanly High), New London High School (now North Stanly High), Endy High School, West Stanly High School, and Stanfield High School.
Sports page from the 1960 Cross Roads yearbook, “Then and Now”
Future Homemakers of America, West Stanly High School 1965
Future Farmers of America, West Stanly High School 1965
These yearbooks provide an intriguing look into the lives of students. They showcase the fashions, clubs and activities of North Carolina students, some that will be familiar to students today and some that have been abandoned over time (Did your class have child mascots? How about a superlative for Best Looking?).
For more information about the Stanly County Museum and their materials, visit their contributor page on DigitalNC or their home website.
We’ve helped Durham Technical Community College add several additional campus publications to their collection of digitized materials on DigitalNC.
Recent issues of The Final Draft, 2013-2015. The Final Draft is a journal that shares creative works produced by Durham Tech students and faculty. These journals include poetry, short stories, and visual art.
Recent issues of Learning Matters, 2010-2014. Learning Matters is the journal of the Durham Technical Community College Teaching-Learning Center, and includes articles on “the scholarship of teaching and learning.”
Two additional volumes (1968, 1969) of The Widget. Durham Tech’s yearbook, these two join one earlier volume already on the site.
View all of the items Durham Technical Community College has shared via DigitalNC.
Livingstone College’s Andrew Carnegie Library has contributed another 13 yearbooks to be shared on DigitalNC, including the earliest volume from that school on the site to date (1927). There are now over 50 online.
Located in Salisbury, Livingstone College was named after explorer David Livingstone. It has a long history – it was founded in 1879 and is one of North Carolina’s eleven Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs).
View all of the Livingstone College yearbooks currently available on DigitalNC.
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