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This holiday season join us here on the blog for the 12 Days of NCDHC. We’ll be posting short entries that reveal something you may not know about us. You can view all of the posts together by clicking on the 12daysofncdhc tag. And, as always, chat with us if you have questions or want to work with us on something new. Happy Holidays!
Day 6: Collections from North Carolina Religious Institutions
Some of our state’s oldest history is stewarded by religious institutions, and we’ve frequently been asked if we can work with them. Though most are not eligible to become an NCDHC partner because they do not have regularly open and staffed libraries or archives, we worked with our Advisory Board to devise a pilot project where eligible partner institutions can pair with a local religious institution to share their materials on DigitalNC.
Our first effort was with New Bern-Craven County Public Library and the First Baptist Church of New Bern. We received a warm welcome over in New Bern as we learned about the Church’s history. We returned to Chapel Hill and scanned some of their earliest minutes along with a history of the congregation published in 1984 (pictured at right).
Here are the details if you’re interested in this project.
- The partnership must be between the religious institution and a current or eligible partner institution.
- All items we scan or photograph have to be made available through DigitalNC.org. We cannot scan items that can’t be made freely accessible online.
- This project follows the same guidelines as all of the work we do. You can read more on our “How to Participate” page.
- Items will have the eligible partner institution listed as the contact, and the religious institution as the home for the archive. We’ll make an “exhibit page” for the religious institution so they can easily search and browse their materials.
This is a great opportunity for local libraries or museums to build or enhance relationships with local synagogues, churches, mosques, and temples.
Check back on Monday as we reveal Day 7 of the 12 Days of NCDHC!
A 1941 exterior photograph of Stoneville High School in Stoneville, N.C.
A new yearbook from New Bern, North Carolina, is now up on DigitalNC, courtesy of our partner, the New Bern-Craven County Public Library. This yearbook is the 1941 edition of The Pioneer from Stoneville High School, in Stoneville, North Carolina.
This yearbook includes individual portraits, class portraits, and more. It also includes photographs of the faculty, student activities like the newspaper staff, clubs like the Glee Club, and the Stoneville High Boys and Girls Basketball teams. Readers can also find the class’s senior superlatives, the class poem dedicated to the graduating class, and read a copy of the valedictorian’s address. Finally, this yearbook also includes class portraits of the underclassmen, from the juniors to the eighth grade class.
To see more from the New Bern-Craven County Public Library, please check out their partner page or visit their website.
The Quarterly Review of the Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society [March 1988], page 119
The Quarterly Review of the Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society [March 1988], page 104
The Review was established in 1974 as a way to publicize genealogy and local history information. Each issues contains a wealth of information including copies of wills, marriage records, family trees, and other transcripts of historical documents. The Review also offered research help for readers’ questions and essays by local genealogists. These issues could serve as an excellent, centralized source for genealogists interested in this area of the state.
You can view all of the recently added issues at this link.
To see more from the New Bern-Craven County Public Library please visit the contributor page or the website.
Recently, the Wayne County Public Library contributed a 1950 yearbook from Goldsboro’s Central High School. We’re always excited to see yearbooks from African American schools digitized and added to the Yearbooks collection; there seem to be fewer of these pre-integration yearbooks in existence and yet they represent such valuable information for those researching family members from that time period. This is one of only three yearbooks on our site to date from Central High School.
Highlights of Central, page 7, 1950
We now have over 150 African American high school yearbooks contributed by institutions across the state and shared on DigitalNC. The earliest of these is “The Planet,” published in 1915 by West Street Graded School in New Bern, NC and contributed by the New Bern-Craven County Public Library. “The Planet” differs from a yearbook as we might think of it today. We’ve found that schools of the early 20th century often published documents that included pictures of faculty and students, but that these also often served as the school course catalog or even the newspaper.
Class of 1914, West Street Graded School, New Bern, NC
The latest African American High School yearbooks on our site come from 1970. “The Panther,” 1970, from Henderson Institute, was the last published by the school before integration.
Henderson Institute Campus Snapshots, 1970
We’re always happy to assist cultural heritage institutions who may have yearbooks they’d like to share online. If you have questions about our yearbook digitization project, take a look at our partners page.
