Comments on: Artifact of the Month: North Carolina souvenir scarf http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/14/artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Blythe http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/14/artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf/comment-page-1/#comment-901065 John Blythe Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:50:17 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=19593#comment-901065 Further on Teachers College and East Carolina. I’ve heard some older North Carolinians–mostly Piedmont residents –refer to East Carolina as ECTC (said like “eesee-teesee). There was frequently a derisive tone to their voice as they said it.

]]> By: Nicholas Graham http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/14/artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf/comment-page-1/#comment-901036 Nicholas Graham Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:53:19 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=19593#comment-901036 The old yearbooks have the answers! The 1952 yearbook from East Carolina notes “the changing of the name of our school from East Carolina Teachers College to East Carolina College. This was done, not because the name ‘Teachers’ was detrimental, but because the school is now more than just a teacher-training institution.”

Alums of Flora Macdonald College can find those yearbooks online as well.

]]> By: Emily Jack http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/14/artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf/comment-page-1/#comment-901019 Emily Jack Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:11:32 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=19593#comment-901019 That’s a good question, Eileen. There are a number of possibilities:

ECU was known as Eastern Carolina Teachers College from 1920 to 1951. (Here’s a great postcard from their collections: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/31 .) And Western Carolina University was known as Western Carolina Teachers College from 1929 to 1953.

App State was Appalachian State Teachers College from 1929 to 1967. Winston-Salem State was Winston-Salem Teachers College from the 1920s to the 1960s. And Elizabeth City State University was Elizabeth City State Teachers College from the 30s to the 60s.

Anyone know if any of these was colloquially referred to just as “Teachers College”?

]]> By: Eileen McGrath http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/14/artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf/comment-page-1/#comment-900997 Eileen McGrath Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:35:56 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=19593#comment-900997 Thanks for posting this–the scarf is a delightful find. Note too the bit of educational history on the scarf–I see at least one college that is no longer up and running (Flora MacDonald). Is “Teachers” what we now know as UNC-Greensboro, or something else?

]]> By: Nicholas Graham http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2012/09/14/artifact-of-the-month-north-carolina-souvenir-scarf/comment-page-1/#comment-899555 Nicholas Graham Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:31:42 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=19593#comment-899555 Great find! This scarf reminds me of some of the pictorial maps that were published in the 1950s, filled with similar notes and illustrations. Here are some examples:

Historic map: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/ncmaps/id/5395/rec/71

Nature map: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/ncmaps/id/5284/rec/66

Literary map: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/ncmaps/id/1686/rec/33

These are all a lot of fun.

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