Early high school yearbooks from Wilson County are now available on DigitalNC. The Wilson County Public Library contributed 35 yearbooks from its local history collections to be digitized. The yearbooks range in date from 1927 to 1963 and represent several different schools, including:
Student yearbooks from Wayne Community College in Goldsboro are now available on DigitalNC.org. The thirteen digitized yearbooks cover the years 1964 to 1985. The picture above is from the 1970 yearbook. The original yearbooks are in the collections of the Claude A. Erwin, Jr., Library, located in the Wayne Learning Center.
Historic student yearbooks from the Stokes County town of King are now available in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks digital collection on DigitalNC. The online collection includes seventeen yearbooks from King High School, ranging in date form 1948 to 1964. The original yearbooks are in the collection of the King Public Library, which is a part of the Northwestern Regional Library system.
Four student yearbooks from the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, N.C., are now available online at DigitalNC as part of the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection. The Palmer Institute was a private school that operated from 1902 to 1971, educating more than 2,000 African American students. The site of the school is now home to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, a North Carolina Historic Site.
Early student yearbooks from Lincolnton High School and Union High School are now available in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC, thanks to the Lincoln County Public Library. There are 55 volumes online, ranging in date from 1923 to 1962. The image below is from the 1960 edition of The Pine Burr, from Lincolnton High School.
Early high school yearbooks from several Winston-Salem schools are now available in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC. There are 48 volumes online, ranging in date from 1911 to 1963. The schools represented are:
The original yearbooks are in the North Carolina Room at the Forsyth County Public Library in Winston-Salem.
Yearbooks from several high schools in Granville County are now available online in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks digital collection. There are 54 volumes online, ranging in date from 1899 to 1962. The yearbooks are from the collections of the Granville County Public Library in Oxford. The following schools are included:
Student yearbooks from schools in Henderson and Middleburg in Vance County, N.C., are now available online in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC.
These join yearbooks of the Henderson Institute that are already online, giving Vance County residents and researchers a terrific resource for community history and memory.
Early student yearbooks from three Cumberland County schools are now available in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC. The schools included are:
The original yearbooks are in the local and state history collection at the Cumberland County Public Library in Fayetteville.
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.