Yearbooks from three different high schools in Harnett County are now available on DigitalNC. The schools include Lillington High School, whose Footprints yearbooks cover 1948 through 1963, Angier High School, whose Old Acquaintances yearbooks available are from 1959 and 1960, and a 1963 Seniorogue yearbook from Broadway High School.
The yearbooks are available courtesy of Harnett County Public Library. To view more North Carolina High School yearbooks, visit here.
Here are our picks for the 7 cleverest North Carolina yearbook titles in our collection.
A clever play on words for this “log” of the year’s activities. View all Hickory High School yearbooks, courtesy the Hickory Public Library.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte was formerly known as Charlotte College. View all University of North Carolina at Charlotte yearbooks.
There are all kinds of clever covers for this intellectually themed, physiologically fitting title. View all Wake Forest School of Medicine yearbooks.
“Hacawa” is a one-word abbreviation of Halls, Campus, Walls. In and around these centers the whole student life here. The Hacawa is an emanation from the work, play, joys, trials, and triumphs of the entire college for the year.” (1909 Hacawa, p. 8) View all Lenoir-Rhyne University yearbooks.
“Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful Jollity,
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles…” – L’Allegro, by John Milton
View all Davidson College yearbooks
We like this title because the students capitalized on the school name they were dealt. View all Burgaw High School yearbooks, courtesy the Pender County Public Library.
You may need to say our the title out loud before it sinks in. This one has stumped staff in the past, making it our #1 pick. View all North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University yearbooks.
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1956 Hillife freshman
Hillife, the yearbooks from Chapel Hill High School, are now accessible on DigitalNC. The yearbooks online cover 1929 through 1961 and were made available by the Chapel Hill Historical Society.
To view more North Carolina yearbooks, visit the North Carolina Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC.
Yearbooks from two schools in Benson, North Carolina are now available online on DigitalNC. The yearbooks are from two different high schools, Benson High School’s The Tatler, covering 1928-1964, and Meadow High School’s Tuscarora, covering 1941-1969.
The yearbooks were made available by the Benson Museum of Local History. To view more North Carolina Yearbooks, view our site here.
Ten years of yearbooks from Charles H. Darden High School in Wilson, NC are now available on DigitalNC. Covering the time period between 1948 and 1969, the yearbooks show life at the African-American high school. The class of 1970 was Darden High School’s last class. In the years following through 1978 it was a 10th grade only school.
The yearbooks are available courtesy of Wilson County Public Library. To view more yearbooks on DigitalNC, visit our North Carolina Yearbooks collection.
* Details about Darden’s last class and subsequent years corrected July 2023.
A few weeks ago, we passed a very exciting milestone at the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. We added our 1000th high school yearbook to the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection. The yearbook that got the special 1,000th honor was the Tar-Bo-Rah issue from 1942, published by Tarboro High School. That particular issue, published during World War II, features a fair amount of patriotic insignia. The cover has the Statue of Liberty on it, the pages features bold blue stars with stripes around Tar-Bo-Rah, and the original owner of the yearbook noted by hand that those whose pictures were not included were already serving the U.S.A. The Tarboro High School yearbooks were made available by the Edgecombe County Memorial Library.
To date, 170 different high schools are represented in DigitalNC, coming from 37 counties across North Carolina. The oldest high school yearbook is the 1898-1899 issue of the Whitsett Institute Annual Register. The smallest school represented is Eastern Pines School, whose Souvenir lists only one teacher and twenty students in 1910. To view the over 1,000 high school yearbooks from across North Carolina now available on DigitalNC, visit our North Carolina High School Yearbooks page.
If you are a staff member at a public library or other cultural institution in North Carolina that holds NC high school yearbooks in your collection that have not been digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, get in touch with us soon and we can talk about how to participate.
Honor Roll of Rockingham County, page 46.
New items for the Rockingham County Legacy: A Digital Heritage Project exhibit, contributed by the Rockingham County Public Library, are now available on DigitalNC.
Of note is the Honor Roll of Rockingham County. This book is full of portraits of Rockingham county men and women who served during World War II. Beneath each portrait are details including the names of parents, hometown, and service dates. African American servicemen are included separately at the last few pages.
Also new are the following scrapbooks, ledgers, cards, and yearbook:
From photos and papers documenting Albemarle schools to ledgers and scrapbooks of local citizens, we’ve uploaded more materials from the Stanly County Museum. One of our favorite items is the Marvin R. Stokes scrapbook, which has photographs related to his military service as well as action shots of motorcycle and car racing in Charlotte, like the one at right (page 9).
Yearbooks and School-Related Materials:
Scrapbooks:
Ledgers:
Ephemera:
There were also a number of photos added to those already available in the Images of North Carolina collection. You can also view all items from the Stanly County Museum.
Several yearbooks from the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill are now on DigitalNC. The yearbooks include: Richard J. Reynolds High School and its predecessors Winston City High School and Winston-Salem City High School, 1910-1931; Gastonia High School, 1922; Fayetteville High School, 1923; Chapel Hill High School, 1925-1964, New Bern High School, 1927; Perquimans County High School, 1927; and 1964-1968 yearbooks from J.W. Ligon High School, a former Black high school that is now Ligon Middle School in Raleigh, N.C.
The 1931 issue of The Black and Gold from RJ Reynolds High School warrants a special mention. That year’s staff had very ambitious illustrators, as every student’s photo is accompanied by a humorous caricature that offers a hint (albeit a slightly insulting one) at the student’s personality. Clubs and societies receive similar treatment. The yearbook also reveals that the school received a visit that year from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a polar explorer and aviator, thanks to the school’s Fine Arts Foundation. View Admiral Byrd’s letter to the school and the many fine caricatures here.
Another North Carolina county now has high school yearbooks available in DigitalNC, thanks to the Chatham County Public Library. Yearbooks spanning 1949-1964 from Pittsboro High School in Chatham County are now online. Pittsboro High School opened in the early 1900s and closed in 1972 following the integration of Chatham County schools. During that time it served as the main school for grades 1-12 in Pittsboro, NC.
To view more materials from Chatham County Public Libraries, visit here.
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.