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

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.

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.…

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 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.

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.

Report Hits NCSU for Ag Research

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This is an article from the June 8, 1972 Technician. It discusses a report that accuses land grand colleges of neglecting small farmers in favor of corporate interests. The issue also contains two articles that refute the claims in this report.

Phillip Morris Scholarship Winners, circa 1970-1979

Phillip Morris scholarship UA023.006.1 folder 5.pdf
This overhead photograph shows NC State agricultural student scholars touring a tobacco factory. While the majority of winners are white males, some scholarship recipients were African American women and white women.

Philip Morris Scholarship Winners

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This photograph depicts the winners of the Philip Morris Scholarship. Notice there are two white women recepients.

People tying hands of tobacco leaves for curing, 1940

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This black and white photograph shows African-American women preparing and processing tobacco by hand, a method that is rarely used today.

Peanut Production in North Carolina

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This bulletin appears in the 1942 Extension Circular. It discusses the demand to increase peanut production to provide oil for the war effort. It gives cultural advice to peanut farmers to help increase their yield.