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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...

Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina
Jan 3, 2014

AC.689: Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina Records is an extensive collection which houses the working records of the Episcopal Diocese of We...

Sow's Ear Press
Dec 6, 2013

The Sow's Ear Press began operations in Abingdon, Virginia in 1987 with founding editors Errol Hess, Larry Richman, and Nell Maiden. The Sow's Ear gav...