This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Looking Backward Reflects on World War II era events and local notices
A compilation of 49 years ago and 20 years ago today items spans wartime fronts with Red Army advances and British supply concerns, plus US occupation talk, Tokyo papers on Iceland deployment, and local High Point and Raleigh civic notes including library leadership change, record library circulation, civilian defense appointments, hotel raid-closure hearings, and regional crime reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Red Army
Reichswehr
Ukraiian
Novograd
Volynski
Donpr
Dnestr
Moscow
Washington
Yeeland
United States
Great Britain
Equator
Arctic
Britain
England
Tokyo
Iceland
Kokumin
High Point
Carter Dalton
The
Public Library
Dalton
Wigh Polot
Nancy K. Poston
Raleigh
T. S. Johnson
North Carolina
Civilian Defense Council
O. Arthur Kirkman
Guilford County
Henley Hotel
D. Co.MacRae
Harris H. Jarrell
Municipal Court
John C. Henley
Seattle
Postal Telegraph Company