Happy Bastille Day, from the 1915 Chowan College French Club.
Le Petit Restaurant du Cafe de la Paix (1915)
It doesn’t quite recall Paris, but I’m sure that the makeshift “Le Petit Restaurant du Cafe de la Paix” was a fine place to pass an afternoon.
The image above is from the 1915 Chowan College (now Chowan University) yearbook, the Chowanoka.
Student yearbooks from Salem College are now available on DigitalNC. Ranging in date from 1905 to 2011, there are more than 100 volumes accessible online.
Located in historic Old Salem, Salem College traces its origins back to 1772 and is recognized as the oldest women’s college in the nation by founding date.
Salem College varsity basketball team, 1927.
Student yearbooks from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington are now available on DigitalNC.org. Thirty-eight volumes of The Fledgling, ranging in date from 1950 to 1989, can be searched and browsed online.
Student yearbooks from Gardner-Webb University are now available on DigitalNC.org. Eighty-nine volumes, going back as far as 1907, have been digitized and can be searched and browsed in the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks project.
The school was founded in 1905 as Boiling Springs High School, later Boiling Springs Junior College. The name was changed in 1942 in recognition of the support of Governor O. Max Gardner and his wife, Fay Webb Gardner.
The editorial staff of the 1950 edition of The Anchor
Student yearbooks from Bennett College in Greensboro are now available on DigitalNC. Browse issues of The Belle and the Bennett Belle from 1961 through 2002. The yearbooks are from the Thomas F. Holgate Library at Bennett.
Student yearbooks from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke are now available online on DigitalNC.org. UNC-Pembroke traces its founding to 1887 when the Croatan Normal School was established in Robeson County. College courses were added in the 1920s and the first four-year degree was given in 1940. Until 1953 it was the only state-sponsored four-year college for Native Americans in the country. Pembroke State University joined the University of North Carolina system in 1972 and changed its name to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1996.
The yearbooks presented on DigitalNC are from the collections of the Mary Livermore Library.
Thirty-nine volumes of “The Summit,” the student yearbook from Asheville-Buncombe College and the University of North Carolina at Asheville are now available online. These volumes cover the years 1939-1985 and include the period when the school was known as the “College in the Sky” due to its impressive home in Seely’s Castle on Sunset Mountain. The school moved to the castle in 1949, eventually outgrowing it and moving to its current campus, at the site of the Civil War Battle of Asheville, in 1961.
The yearbooks are part of the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections & University Archives at UNC-Asheville.
The 1960 edition of The Eagle, the North Carolina Central University student yearbook, is now online. The yearbook was given to the North Carolina Central University Archives by a generous member of the class of 1961.
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Student yearbooks from Saint Augustine’s College (now Saint Augustine’s University) in Raleigh are now available on DigitalNC.org. The fifty-one volumes range in date from 1934 to 2002. As an added bonus for Falcon alumni and fans, there are also four football programs from 2002 available to browse online.
Twenty-six yearbooks from Shaw University are now online at DigitalNC as part of the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks Collection. The school was formed in 1865, making it the first college established for African Americans in the South, although it didn’t assume the name of Shaw University until 1875.
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