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Four student yearbooks from the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, N.C., are now available online at DigitalNC as part of the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection. The Palmer Institute was a private school that operated from 1902 to 1971, educating more than 2,000 African American students. The site of the school is now home to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, a North Carolina Historic Site.

Early student yearbooks from Lincolnton High School and Union High School are now available in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC, thanks to the Lincoln County Public Library. There are 55 volumes online, ranging in date from 1923 to 1962. The image below is from the 1960 edition of The Pine Burr, from Lincolnton High School.

Early high school yearbooks from several Winston-Salem schools are now available in the North Carolina High School Yearbooks collection on DigitalNC. There are 48 volumes online, ranging in date from 1911 to 1963. The schools represented are:
The original yearbooks are in the North Carolina Room at the Forsyth County Public Library in Winston-Salem. 
Scrapbooks and other historic materials from the Northwestern Regional Library system are now available on DigitalNC. The online resources include:
The photographs, clippings, and stories contained in the scrapbooks give us a fascinating glimpse into small-town life in northern North Carolina in the middle of the 20th century.
The North Carolina City Directories collection in DigitalNC continues to grow. There are now more than 900 directories online, spanning more than a century. Published from early 1860s to the early 1960s, the directories cover cities and towns across North Carolina. There are 107 cities and 63 counties represented in the online collection. Most of the directories that were digitized come from the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, though several other libraries have contributed copies, including the Durham County Library, Duke University, the Forsyth County Public Library, and the Hickory Public Library.
We are making an effort to include every available North Carolina city directory published through 1963 (later editions have a different copyright status). If you know of city directories in North Carolina libraries that are not included on this site, please let us know.

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This blog is maintained by the staff of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center and features highlights from the collections at DigitalNC, an online library of primary sources from institutions across North Carolina.