Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Does this sound familiar? The most odious feature in this system is that it robs the MANY, imperceptibly, to enrich the FEW;–It clothes a few wealthy individuals with power not only to control the wages of the laboring man, but also at their pleasure to inflate or depress the commerce and business of the whole [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on December 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Many of the issues of the Southern Pines Pilot from the mid-1930s include a cartoon by Murray Jones, Jr. called “Caro-Graphics,” featuring odd and interesting facts and legends from North Carolina history. Here’s an example, from the October 15, 1937 paper: I thought I’d see if any Miscellany readers knew any more about these. I [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on December 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve just added two early Charlotte newspapers to the North Carolina Newspapers digital collection. The Catawba Journal (1824-1828) and the Miners’ and Farmers’ Journal (1830-1835) document life in a town that was very different from today’s thriving metropolis. The Catawba Journal covered news of national and local importance, and printed some of the early discussions [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I found this fascinating photo in a November 23, 1934 issue of The Pilot, from Southern Pines, N.C. Apparently the inaugural Spring Blossom Festival, held in Southern Pines in April 1934 featured an “Old Slave Day.” The newspaper description reads: The Festival was featured by Old Slave Day, a day set aside for those of [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Over 200 city directories from 34 different cities and towns are now available to search and browse on DigitalNC: http://digitalnc.org/collections/north-carolina-city-directories. Most of the directories in the digital collection are from the North Carolina Collection, with a few contributed by the Durham County Library and the Forsyth County Public Library. We are planning to add more [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was testing out the keyword search function of the ever-growing North Carolina Newspapers collection by searching for Thomas Wolfe and found this amusing piece from the Southern Pines, N.C., paper The Pilot from February 5, 1937: When the author of “Of Time and the River” and other famed best sellers, Thomas Wolfe, was in [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Early issues of Black Ink, the newspaper of the Black Student Movement at UNC-Chapel Hill, are now available online through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. Dating back to 1969, Black Ink documents the experience of and issues related to African American students at UNC. The paper provides especially good coverage of student protest movements [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, History on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Looking through the collection of yearbooks from North Carolina Wesleyan College that were recently digitized by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, I was interested in this photo, which shows a group of students welcoming President Lyndon Johnson to Rocky Mount in 1964, the visit that resulted in the now iconic photos of the President [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Quick. Name the first newspaper in North Carolina. How about the second? And the third? If you’re stuck, the folks at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West have provided a tool to help you. They created a data visualization of the growth of newspapers across the U.S. from 1690 to 2011. Drag [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on August 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
As archivists and librarians we’re frequently confronted with piles of books, letters, photographs…you name it. And it’s easy to become so focused on cataloging and describing them that we forget to actually stop and think about the stories they contain and the people who created them. That’s especially the case when the name doesn’t immediately [...]
