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Connie Law's application for the 1968-1969 Mrs. NC State beauty pageant contains personal information about the contestant as well as general information about the pageant. Law was a student at NC State, and her exhibited talent was modeling clothing…

This photograph of Betty Marcum, Mrs. NC State for 1965, was originally printed in The Raleigh Times.

This photograph shows the winner of the 1965 Mrs. NC State pageant, Mrs. Betty Marcum, getting crowned by her husband, John Marcum.

Chap. CXXX.--AN ACT Donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in…

This image shows two State's Mates members dressed as "moon beatnicks."

I recently read an article entitled “Lawyers aim to win reparations for descendants of slaves” by Harvard Law Professor, Charles J. Ogletree. The article was about paying back the descendants of slaves for the wrong that our ancestors endured…

Geo R. Ross, class of 1911, wrote an article in November 1947 about Eula Louisa Dixon. Dixon was the first female student to take a course related to agriculture: dairying or dairy husbandry. Dixon applied the knowledge of her short course at NC…

These minutes discuss the creation and selection of the name "State's Mates" for what had previously been known as the Student Wives' Club.

This photograph shows several State's Mates members with suitcases performing in their minstrel show.

This newspaper photograph shows members of State's Mates rehearsing for their upcoming minstrel show.