Browse Items (717 total)

A 4-H club member is photographed while weaving seat caning onto a chair in Guilford County, North Carolina in September, 1937.

This document contains the agenda for an unidentified meeting of State's Mates. The director of the Student Union came to speak with State's Mates at this meeting to discuss various campus activities, and door prizes were given to members based, in…

Seven women and two extension agents were photographed during a lesson on canning (ca. 1920-1929.) The canner depicted was a popular Flowers model manufactured in Hickory, North Carolina. The can with the label was a 4-H brand for green beans.

This photograph, probably from the 1950s, depicts an agricultural class full of white male students. This is evidence of the dominance of white males in the program versus white women or African Americans.

These photos of Manuel Houston Crockett, Jr., Edward Carson, Irwin Richard Holmes, Jr., and Walter VanBuren Holmes were collected from the 1957 Agromeck (North Carolina State's yearbook) by the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center.…

First African American to receive a basketball scholarship at North Carolina State University.

During the Convocation the photographer got a great shot: a peace sign floating next to the American flag at the University.

John Tyler Caldwell gave this speech in 1964 during which he spoke to the role of the western university in society in connection with international issues. Caldwell was the chancellor of NC State from 1959-1975. Under his administration, State…

What “burns me up” as my granny use to say is listening to historians like Duke University’s John Hope Franklin giving thoughtless advice to President William Jefferson Clinton that Clinton should not apologize for slavery. Yes, for the last…

This thank-you letter was written to Ambassador Theatre, in gratitude of tickets which were given as a prize at a State's Mates party. The winner (apparently a husband) had to drink milk through a baby bottle.