Margaret Nygard (1925-1995) was born in Nasik, India, where her father was a British civil servant. After leaving India, she lived in England and Canada. She married English professor Holger Nygard in 1944, received her masters and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and moved to Durham, N.C., where she taught English at Durham [...]
A new set of legacy finding aids, or finding aids previously only available in paper format, have been posted online.
Notable selections from this group include:
John K. Hoyt Journal, #3436-z
John K. Hoyt was a viticulturist and vintner at Engadine Vineyards in West Asheville, NC. The collection includes a volume of records, March 1892 – January 1894 [...]
The SHC has some exciting news for our researchers: we’ve embarked on a 3 year project funded by a grant from NC ECHO to update and make available online over 1000 finding aids currently only available in paper format. Over 200 of these finding aids are now available online!
These finding aids represent some of the [...]
You might have noticed that some of the finding aids for the Southern Historical Collection have a new look. Thanks to the hard work of Special Collections Technical Services TRA Joyce Chapman, the finding aid re-design has been implemented. We hope that the new finding aid display will be user-friendly and easy-to-navigate.
This new display applies [...]
