Possibly nothing is more festive during the holiday season than making a special trip to a Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) in Germany, filled with fragrant firs, twinkling lights, and warm Glühwein. Short of booking a trip to Germany to experience this first-hand, the next best thing may be to witness something akin to German Christmas traditions right here […]
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A Moravian Christmas
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on December 17, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Photographs by Jerome Friar of Janet Reno’s U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing
Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day on November 7, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Janet Reno, the first female to hold the office of United States Attorney General, passed away early today. The North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives has four photographs made by Jerome Friar during the United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for her confirmation of appointment on 10 March 1993.
Campaign clutter? We want it
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on October 12, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Election day is a mere 27 days away, so the robocalls should be interrupting your evening meals and the postcards and fliers will be filling your mailboxes. We, in the North Carolina Collection, can’t help make your evenings more peaceful. But we can relieve you of some of the clutter. As with elections past, we’re […]
Happy 100th Birthday National Park Service!
Posted in From the Stacks, Just A Bite, On This Day, Postcards, Tar Heelia on August 25, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Happy 100th birthday to the National Park Service (NPS)! On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act establishing the NPS as an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior to coordinate administration of the then 37 national parks and monuments. Today the NPS oversees 412 parks, monuments, and […]
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of North Carolina’s state parks on Saturday
Posted in From the Stacks, History on August 24, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
In 1916, Mount Mitchell became North Carolina’s first state park. This year, the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources celebrates the centennial of the state park system, which now encompasses dozens of parks and recreation areas. Centennial events have been happening at parks across the state throughout the year. The signature centennial event […]
Exhibition “Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective” opens in Raleigh
Posted in Events & exhibits, From the Stacks, Tar Talk, tagged hugh morton, North Carolina Museum of History, photography on August 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective opened this past Saturday at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. The Museum of History is the sixth venue for the exhibition since its debut in August 2013 at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone. The Morton photographs will […]
Bison in North Carolina
Posted in From the Stacks, History, NC Historic Newspapers, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 7, 2016 | 5 Comments »
On January 30, 1919 the French Broad Hustler reported the shipment of “six head of buffalo –three males and three females –to Hominy, Buncombe County” by the American Bison Society. Their arrival in North Carolina marked the reintroduction of America’s largest big game animal to the state. The experiment was short-lived. Despite the birth of […]
Scotswoman Janet Schaw in North Carolina on the Brink of Revolution
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on June 13, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
They are tall and lean, with short waists and long limbs, sallow complexions and languid eyes, when not inflamed by spirits. Their feet are flat, their joints loose and their walk uneven. These I speak of are only peasantry of this country, as hitherto I have seen nothing else, but I make no doubt when […]
The Barber Brothers: Asheville’s Printing Industry Entrepreneurs
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia on June 13, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
The tall but narrow little pamphlets inevitably catch one’s eye on the shelf: each is only about 6 pages in length, and they are printed in bright colors and intriguing fonts on good paper. With almost four decades’ worth of issues, there is a lot to peruse. The series, Tips, is filled with sayings, words of […]
Thanks for the cards, Mr. Barbour
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on March 7, 2016 | 1 Comment »
Among the jewels of the North Carolina Collection are more than 15,000 postcards. And we have one man to thank for about 8,000 of those items—Durwood Barbour. For 25 years, Barbour combed through boxes at coin and postcard shows looking for images that told stories of bygone people, places and doings in his native state. […]
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