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Raleigh erected its first permanent YMCA building in 1913 on the corner of Wilmington and Edenton Streets. The Y sold its aging facility in 1959 and erected a new modernist structure on 1601 Hillsborough Street---mere blocks from the NCSU campus. The…

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.…

A portrait of Leonidas L. Polk. He was instrumental in the creation of North Carolina State University.

This photograph is of students at the University of Michigan who were protesting the decision handed down in the 2003 Supreme Court case, Gratz v. Bollinger. This case involved two white students who had applied to the University of Michigan's…

This photograph is of California National Guardsmen patrolling the streets of Los Angeles during the now infamous April 1992 race riots. The riots broke out after a jury acquitted white police officers who had brutally beaten an African-American man,…

This is a photograph of the battle flag used by the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War.

This newspaper clipping depicts a group of State's Mates members performing in an end-of-year talent show.

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

This newspaper clipping shows the State's Mates members practicing a dance for their annual Valentine's Day banquet.

This image shows one of the State's Mates members standing with a rocket before the moon themed variety show.