Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on January 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The new NC ECHO statewide search makes it easier than ever for users to find local and state history resources online. Through a single, simple search interface, users can find historic photos, maps, postcards, genealogies, yearbooks, oral histories, and much more. The statewide search was developed by NC LIVE, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on December 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Our friends at the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources remind us that today is the anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first successful flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Here’s how the story was reported in the Chatham Record published on December 24, 1903: The story goes on to describe the dramatic scene, but, unfortunately, the [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on December 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been mining the collections at DigitalNC for references to and images of Santa Claus in the Tar Heel state. We put together a Flickr set with some of our finds, which include some terrific images of Santa in Rocky Mount, Pinehurst, Burgaw, and Ashe County, lots of ads, and my favorite, a photo of [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Early course catalogs from UNC are now available online at DigitalNC. Ranging in date from 1822 through 1870, these catalogs contain lists of required courses as well as rosters of faculty and students at the University. Recent graduates won’t have a hard time finding differences between the great variety classes offered now and the significantly [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on November 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
There’s great material throughout the yearbooks in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC. We’ve pulled out a few of our favorite senior superlatives for a Flickr slideshow. The superlatives range from Most Studious to Most Vivacious and include great photos from high schools in Fayetteville, Burlington, Mocksville, and a handful of other [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on November 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I found this impressive Thanksgiving Day menu in the December 3, 1911 issue of The Charlotte News. The feast was served to a group of Charlotte businessmen who traveled to Savannah as guests of the Indiana Refining Company, which was engaged at the time in applying “liquid asphalt binder” on the macadam roads in and [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History on November 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Flipping through some issues of the Roanoke Beacon (Plymouth, N.C.) from 1898, I found their endorsements for the coming election, which were given entirely in verse. I don’t recall see anything like this in other papers. What a shame that it didn’t catch on. From the Roanoke Beacon issue published November 4, 1898.
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As the election season heats up, not even a simple post about yearbook photos can avoid accusations of partisanship. In the interest of fair representation for both of our state’s major party gubernatorial candidates, here are both the freshman and senior yearbook photos of Walton Dalton (top) and Pat McCrory (bottom). The placement of the [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 15, 2012 | 15 Comments »
Having a hard time deciding who to vote for for Governor? If the various campaign ads and claims have you confused, here’s a much less contentious way of looking at the candidates. Both Walter Dalton and Pat McCrory show up in the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks collection available on DigitalNC.org. Dalton was a [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The origin of the nickname “Tar Heel” is one that comes up often whenever North Carolinians are talking with visitors from out of state. Like many colloquialisms, a precise origin is hard to pin down as the nickname was probably used in informal conversation long before it ever appeared in print. But that doesn’t stop [...]
