Vintage hardcover textbook titled "The Growth of North Carolina" by Albert Ray Newsome and Hugh Talmage Lefler, published by World Book Company. This historical educational volume features a blue cloth cover with orange and gold embossed graphics including the North Carolina state flag and seal. The interior contains a fascinating provenance with a State Textbook Commission bookplate listing students from the 1950s and 1960s, along with various handwritten dates and stamps. Includes a color frontispiece illustration of "The Baptism of Virginia Dare" by William Steene. A significant piece of mid-century North Carolina educational history.