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This week we have another 24 titles up on DigitalNC, including one of the state’s oldest papers: The State Gazette of North-Carolina!
The State Gazette was founded by Abraham Hodge and Andrew Blanchard in 1785. Hodge, born 1755 in the colony of New York, worked as a patriot printer during the American Revolution and even operated George Washington’s traveling press at Valley Forge in 1778. While stationed there, he printed official orders, commissions, and recruitment posters for the Continental Army. Seeking a warmer climate after the war, Hodge relocated to Halifax, N.C., where he would go on to own printing presses in Edenton, Halifax, Fayetteville, and New Bern. In addition to newspapers, he was named printer of the North Carolina General Assembly and printed the state’s laws in 1786. He was also one of the first people to contribute to the library of The University of North Carolina.
March 5, 1795 issue of The State Gazette of North-Carolina. Less than a month after The University of North Carolina opened its doors to students.
Over the next year, we’ll be adding millions of newspaper images to DigitalNC. These images were originally digitized a number of years ago in a partnership with Newspapers.com. That project focused on scanning microfilmed papers published before 1923 held by the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. While you can currently search all of those pre-1923 issues on Newspapers.com, over the next year we will also make them available in our newspaper database as well. This will allow you to search that content alongside the 2 million pages already on our site – all completely open access and free to use.
This week’s additions include:
- The Daily Bulletin (Charlotte, N.C.) – 1862-1863
- Goldsboro Messenger (Goldsboro, N.C.) – 1880-1887
- The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1851-1856
- The Patriot and Flag (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1857-1858
- The Greensborough Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1858-1868
- The Patriot and Times (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1868
- The Little Ad (Greensboro, N.C.) – 1860
- The North Carolina Citizen (Asheville, N.C.) – 1878-1880
- The State Gazette of North-Carolina (New Bern, N.C.) – 1787-1796
- The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) – 1912-1914
- Eastern Courier (Hertford, N.C.) – 1897-1898
- Economist and Falcon (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1891-1893
- Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.) – 1900-1902
- The Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1896-1899
- The Daily Standard (Concord, N.C.) – 1892
- The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.) – 1910-1912
- The Evening Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1906-1907
- The Concord Daily Tribune (Concord, N.C.) – 1912-1923
- The Davie Record (Mocksville, N.C.) – 1919-1920
- The Anglo-Saxon (Rockingham, N.C.) – 1899-1901
- Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, N.C.) – 1896
- The Reporter and Post (Danbury, N.C.) – 1882-1884
- The Danbury Reporter-Post (Danbury, N.C.) – 1884-1891
- The Danbury Reporter (Danbury, N.C.) – 1894-1917
If you want to see all of the newspapers we have available on DigitalNC, you can find them here. Thanks to UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries for permission to and support for adding all of this content as well as the content to come. We also thank the North Caroliniana Society for providing funding to support staff working on this project.
Thanks to funding from the North Caroliniana Society and from the UNC Libraries IDEA grants, one of the oldest African American newspapers in North Carolina, and the longest continuously published, is now online. The Star of Zion, which is still published today, began publication in 1876 by the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church. Issues covering 1884 through 1926 are now on DigitalNC, digitized from microfilm. The earliest years we digitized are published in a few different places, including Petersburg, Va. and Salisbury, NC. Beginning in 1896, the paper moved publication to Charlotte, NC where it is still published today.
Issue highlighting the 1923 graduates of students at schools affiliated with the AME Zion Church
The topics covered by the paper are heavily focused on church activities, including reports from pastors across the country about their localities. Other topics are also covered, including commentary on political issues of the day. The papers in 1884 feature the full Republican ticket for the presidency and down, which the editors heartily supported. The issues in the later years have a wider focus on both issues of the day and church news.
An editor’s note from the November 19, 1986 issue.
A rather interesting feature that also pops up often in the paper is a presence of a real rivalry with other denomination based African American publications in the state. One particularly humorous note was posted by the editor in the November 26, 1896 issue of the paper, noting that the Africo-American Presbyterian was lauding the honorary degree Biddle University (now Johnson C. Smith University) had conferred on George White, elected to serve in the 2nd Congressional District from NC (and the last Black Congressman to serve before Jim Crow). The editors of the Star noted that Livingstone College, the AME Zion affiliated school in North Carolina, had already given one to him in May of that year. College and religious rivalries are timeless.
Note from the Editor of the Star of Zion in the November 26, 1896 issue
To view more North Carolina African American newspapers, visit our exhibit. To view more projects supported by the UNC Libraries IDEA Action grants, visit these posts.
About six months ago we asked our partners to help us increase the diversity of voices shared on DigitalNC. We had an outpouring of interest, and partners have shared a number of rich collections from the African American and LGBTQ communities. Here’s an update of what has been added to DigitalNC as a result of this call.
This 1903 Census Report for Morton Township, Alamance County, lists names, ages, and the names of parents of African American students.
Alamance County Public Libraries shared a wide variety of materials documenting African American communities in that county. Two groups of photographs, the Heritage of Black Highlanders and Asheville YWCA Photograph Collection, are parts of larger collections held by University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Several partners added African-American newspapers to those already shared online at DigitalNC.
We’ve also been working with University of North Carolina at Charlotte to share issues of Q-Notes, which covers updates, events, and issues of the LGBTQ community.
Diversifying DigitalNC isn’t a one-time event – it’s ongoing every day. If your institution has or will be targeting collections that document racial, ethnic, or geographic communities who are underrepresented on DigitalNC, and you’re interested in sharing these materials online, get in touch.
Class registration at Winston Salem State University, 1973. From 1973 The New Ram
As college students across North Carolina head back to class it seems like a good time to take a peek in our NC College Yearbooks collection and see what registering for classes used to look like before we were able to just sit in our dorm room, or coffee shop, or be halfway across the world to sign up on our computers. Until the early 1990s, to sign up for classes involved a lengthy process of waiting in very long lines and hoping that no one in front of you got into the class you wanted or needed before you did. As the images below show, the overwhelming feeling among students about this process was pure frustration. Today’s students can be glad this is one college tradition they do not experience anymore!
Registration day was a feature in community colleges as well. This is from Wayne Community College’s 1974 yearbook, Insights.
Registration frustration from UNC-Wilmington’s 1966 Fledgling yearbook
Utilizing the gym floor to figure out classes during registration, from UNC-Chapel Hill’s 1982 Yackety yack
Registration was a “hassel!!” at NC Agricultural and Technical State University in 1974. from 1974 Ayantee
To view more college yearbooks from North Carolina, visit the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center’s NC Yearbooks collection here, and welcome back to school students!
We’ve recently digitized and published online a terrific scrapbook from the local history collection at the Wayne County Public Library. The scrapbook documents the early career of professional baseball player and Wayne County native Johnny Peacock.
Peacock was born and grew up in Fremont, N.C., where he excelled in high school sports. He attended the University of North Carolina, playing baseball and football. After graduating from UNC in 1933, Peacock began his professional career in North Carolina with the Wilmington Pirates of the Piedmont League. He continued with minor league teams in Toronto, Nashville, and Minneapolis before making his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox in 1937.
Peacock was a backup catcher throughout his career, never appearing in more than 89 games in a season. He spent parts of eight seasons with the Red Sox and a couple of seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies before finishing his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. He retired with a career batting average of .262.
The scrapbook includes clippings and photographs from Peacock’s baseball career from high school through 1939.
