Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on September 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
At the suggestion of the Davie County Public Library, the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center has just published online one of my favorite little books from the North Carolina Collection: Douglas Rights’s A Voyage Down the Yadkin – Great Peedee River. The book describes a journey taken by the author in a rowboat down the [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History, Tar Heelia on September 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I found this interesting notice in the Highland Messenger, published in Asheville on September 25, 1840:
Posted in DigitalNC, History on September 4, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I found this ad in the Charlotte News from September 6, 1911: What do you think, Charlotteans? Is Myers Park still “the suburb distinctive”?
Posted in DigitalNC, History, Tar Heelia on August 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There are a lot of things wrong with this article, which I found in the August 15, 1902 edition of the Elm City Elevator, from the small town of Elm City, located in Wilson County. To begin with, the tree revered by UNC-Chapel Hill students and alumni alike is referred to as the “David Poplar” [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on August 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Big news from Washington, D.C. And it doesn’t involve tax cuts, jobless numbers or the Presidential campaign. We recently received word from the National Endowment for the Humanities that we’ll receive $303,192 over the next two years to make available online North Carolina newspapers dating from 1836-1922. We’ll be joining the National Digital Newspaper Program, [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks on July 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Of the more than 4,000 yearbooks we’ve digitized for the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks collection, one of the most creative that I’ve seen is the 1985 Yackety Yack from UNC-Chapel Hill. The book is arranged like an encyclopedia of the campus and community, with pretty clever entries throughout and some great photographs. It’s [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History, On This Day on July 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1834, the Miners’ & Farmers’ Journal in Charlotte published a long account of the “Siamese Twins,” Chang and Eng Bunker. The twins were in the midst of a world tour, attracting considerable attention wherever they went. A few months after this was published, the twins visited the University of North Carolina [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on July 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s time for another round of “Can You Identify This Notable North Carolinian from their Yearbook Photo?” I’ve got just one photo this time. If you think you know who it is, post your answer in the comments. Also, if you know where I could get a pair of glasses like those, put that in [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on June 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s time for another round of “Can you guess this notable figure from their yearbook photo?” featuring images from the North Carolina Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC. Here you go: These two folks have a couple of things in common: both attended, but did not graduate from colleges in North Carolina, but their lack of a [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s @ncnewspapers headline, from the Charlotte News in 1911, read “Alleged Blind Tiger Seized.” For those of you unfamiliar with Prohibition-era jargon, the story was not about a sightless jungle animal: a “blind tiger” was another name for a speakeasy, or any place where untaxed liquor (often homemade) was sold. I first ran across the [...]
