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Who Took Those Photographs in the 1904 Photograph Album?

It is hard to let unanswered questions go for very long. As an update to last week’s post “North Carolina Room and a Recent Donation Gets Media Coverage,” the obvious question facing all of us was “Who was the photographer?” A school librarian from Albany, New York, Lucy Menard, had sent us a 1904 photo album
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North Carolina Room and a Recent Donation Gets Media Coverage

The story goes like this: The North Carolina Room’s very own Friends of the North Carolina Room board member, Jon Elliston, published an article Thursday January 15th on Carolina Public Press about a 1904 photograph album that was sent to the NC Room by a woman in Albany, New York. She had found the album in a box of Albany
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CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN ASHEVILLE

Asheville once had a flourishing system of parochial primary and secondary schools. Catholic schools reached their peak in both number of schools and enrollment in the 1950’s and 1960’s and then went into a quick retreat in the 1970’s. Declines in religious vocations greatly reduced the availability of nuns and priests to staff the schools
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NORTH CAROLINA ROOM, PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY AWARDED AN N.C. STATE LIBRARY DIGITIZATION GRANT

LIBRARY AWARDED FEDERAL GRANT The Buncombe County Public Library’s North Carolina Room has been awarded a $66,750 grant to be used for scanning the Six Associate’s Architectural Drawings Collection. This will allow us to better serve patrons of the library and the community at large. LSTA funds awarded by the State Library of North Carolina are
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New Years Creek

Would you believe there is a creek named New Years Creek? It rises in Watauga County on the western limits of the town of Blowing Rock and flows into Caldwell County where it enters Thunderhole Creek. Glen Burney Falls (referred to on the post card as Glen Burnia Falls and spelled Glen Burnie in the North Carolina
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Christmas Cards from Asheville’s Past

Currently on view in the entrance case at Pack Memorial Library you will discover a variety of vintage Christmas cards from individuals and businesses in Asheville. On view on the lower level is a recently acquired photo album made by photographer William Barnhill as a Christmas gift to his sister Laura Barnhill who was visiting with him in
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