Snapshot: Fleetwood School
Apr 3, 2014
From an unlabeled newsclipping:FLEETWOOD HIGH SCHOOL HAD MANY OUTSTANDING GRADUATING CLASSES. Here is the group which graduated in 1921, the members o...
"I have this day agreed to go to the army..."
Mar 27, 2014
These letters confirm Private Richmond Hayes' hiring of a replacement to serve in Company E of the 58th North Carolina Regiment of Infantry. They ackn...
Snapshot: Buster Brown
Mar 18, 2014
An advertisement for Buster Brown Shoes once available for purchase at the Stephens Store in Creston, North Carolina. The Buster Brown company adverti...
Put It On My Tab
Mar 6, 2014
Remember the days of "Put it on my tab"? This was the method of bookkeeping- pencil and a "running tab." Now it's "cash or credit?" "Yes put it on my ...
Helen Matthews Lewis Papers
Feb 19, 2014
Complete with recent additions, AC.103: Helen Matthews Lewis Papers, 1924-2011, undated are available for research in the Dougherty Reading Room. The ...
The Big Snow of 1960
Feb 10, 2014
An edition of the Todd General Store Ledger remembering the anniversary of the 1960 Snow which covered western North Carolina as well as the mountain ...
Mr. Archie Perry and Mr. Nimrod Workman
Feb 5, 2014
Article and image from Scrapbook in AC.103: Helen Lewis Papers....
Snapshot: First Car on Cove Creek
Jan 27, 2014
Photograph and description from AC.772: Nora Mast Wilson Photograph of John Mast Home, Cove Creek Community, Watauga County, North Carolina, circa 191...
Snapshot: Odd Fellows
Jan 24, 2014
Photograph of Odd Fellows Lodge ritual, Ivanhoe, Virginia, from AC.103: Helen Lewis Papers. Label reads, "House far right Bob Taylor- then, Goodson ho...
Exhibit: Odds and Ends
Jan 22, 2014
Currently under construction, the next Appalachian State Library Special Collections exhibit will spotlight the curiosities of the archives. Located i...