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  • Collection: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension

Research Apprentices in the Field, 1981.

USDA 1981 UA 100.40.6.pdf
These two pictures show the African American Research Apprentices in the field for their summer study. The students are interacting with farmers and potentially farming families or faculty.

Rural Home Electrification Project- Guilford County

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This is an image of a home in rural Guilford County that has just been set up for electricity.

Rural Housing Survey Results, 1938-1940

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This folder contains the responses of several rural North Carolina residents concerning the rural housing problem.

Rural Women's Symposium, 1959

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Miss Ruth Current, Assistant Director for the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service, is shown explaining the Rural Women's Symposium theme "The Widening Circle of Enriched Ideas and Experience" to Mrs. Fernie Lauginghouse Pantego and Mrs. J.V.…

Spraying on Apple Research Laboratory- Wilkes County, May 1940

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This photograph shows two men spraying pesticides on the apple orchards at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Wilkes County.

Spraying Peaches with Spray Guns at Mt. Airy Orchard

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In this photograph, men are spraying peach trees with some type of pesticide from a tank located in the back of a wagon being pulled by a mule.

Students in Horticulture Lab

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This photograph depicts two students, female and male, in the horticultural lab. Female agriculture students were more common in the 1970s photographs.

Students observing woman conduct agricultural research

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The woman in this photo is either a student, faculty member, or demonstrator. She is being observed by all white men.

Students working in a lab

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This photograph depicts white male students in an agricultural lab circa 1930-1939. This photograph implies only white males were accepted into the School of Agriculture during this decade.

The N.E.T.W.O.R.K.: The Network for Empowerment Through Women Organized to Redefine Knowledge. Sponsored by: The Women's Center at North Carolina State University

UA16.31halfbox1 1995 pamphlet folder 2.pdf
The N.E.T.W.O.R.K's mission reflected NCSU's changing attitudes of female students in the 1990s. The Women's Center provided a network of "role models for the women students at North Carolina State University through a mentoring progam." The…