AnnouncementsMemorial DayThe Special Collections Public Services Desk will be open by appointment only on Monday, May 27, 2013, in observance of Memorial Day. Please order materials by 5pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, to ensure delivery prior to the holiday. The Special Collections Public Services Desk will resume normal hours on Tuesday, May 28, at 8am. If you have any questions, please contact, via email, Gwynn Thayer or Eli Brown. UA 023.023 Guide to the University Archives Photograph Collection, Organization Photographs, 1897-1990Negatives and contact sheets are located at the beginning of the subgroup. Photographic prints, including those housed in
three scrapbooks, follow and are physically arranged according to the identification schema listed below.
Portions of this collection have been digitized and made available online.
The entire collection, including materials not available online, may be viewed in the Special Collections reading room in
D.H. Hill Library.
[Half Box
31,
Folder
1]
[Half Box
31,
Folder
2]
[Album
13]
[Album
15]
[Album
14]
[Half Box
31,
Folder
3]
[Album
16]
[Album
12]
[Album
17]
One photograph was originally part of the Memorabilia Collection (UA 020) as a gift of Reid Tull, Accession 1986.4.1. It was
donated along with a Sigma Nu Fraternity ring that is still in the Memorabilia Collection.
[Album
18]
[Half Box
31,
Folder
4]
[Album
10]
[Album
27]
[Album
28]
[Album
28]
[Half Box
31,
Folder
5]
[Album
21]
[Album
22]
[Album
20]
[Flat Box
34]
[Album
28]
CreatorNorth Carolina State University. University Archives. Quantity9.5 Linear feet General Physical Description note28 albums, 1 archival box, 2 archival half boxes, 3 archival flat boxes LocationFor current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Special Collections Research Center
Reference Staff LanguageEnglish Acquisitions InformationThis collection was created by the University Archives from a variety of sources. ProcessingProcessed by: Special Collections Research Center; machine-readable finding aid created by: Kristen Lipetzky. Updated by Stephanie Barnwell, January 2012 and July 2012. Scope and Content NoteThis collection contains images of organizations that provided social, cultural, recreational, and professional opportunities for North Carolina State University student, faculty, and staff from 1897 until 1990. Student government elections, Greek events, intramural sports, Engineers' Fairs, student dances, and Y.M.C.A. events are all pictured in this collection. Other images include group portraits, candid shots, and photographs of large events. There are also a few scrapbooks. Most of the photographs are black and white prints, but there are some color prints and the series also contains related negatives, contact prints, contact sheets, and slides. Unless otherwise noted, photographs in each sub-series of this collection are generally arranged in chronological order. Historical NoteIn 1887 the North Carolina General Assembly created the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as the state's land-grant institution to provide teaching, research and extension services to the people of the state. The College officially opened its doors in 1889, with Alexander Holladay as the first President. Classes began that fall with seventy-two students and six faculty. Two general fields of study were available, agriculture and mechanics, with a third in applied science added in 1893. Coursework in military science was added in 1894. By the turn of the century, the College had grown to 300 students and had begun to diversify its curricula with more specialization offered in agricultural and mechanical coursework. By 1917, the school's teaching, research, and extension activities were broad enough that the Board of Trustees agreed to a name change: North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, thereby officially adopting the "State College" colloquialism that had been in use for years. In 1931 the College greatly reworked its curricula as it underwent consolidation. Along with North Carolina College for Women and the University of North Carolina, it became a part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. During the second half of the century, the College received university status and as of 2007 was one of the constituent institutions
of the multi-campus University of North Carolina system. After some controversy, the university assumed its current name in
1965. The University's full and official name is North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Use of the full name is generally
avoided in order to avoid the implication that there are other branches of North Carolina State in other cities. In 2007,
the North Carolina State University nearly 30,000 students and nearly two thousand faculty, and its research and program expenditures
totaled over $440 million. For more information on the University's history, please see the online
A Brief History of North Carolina State University Student organizations have always had a role at North Carolina State University, where participation is seen as an important part of the university education. A branch of the Y.M.C.A. was established on campus in 1889, as were the Pullen and Leazar literary societies, and the Agricultural Society. Over the past 120 years of the university’s history, the number of organizations has grown as new interests have arisen on campus. As of 2008, there were 480 different campus organizations, including fraternities, sororities, professional societies, and student government. Alternate Form of MaterialControlled Terms
Related Material
UA 023.025 University Archives Photograph Collection, Student Life Photographs
Access to CollectionThis collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. For more information contact us via mail, phone, fax, or our web form. Special Collections Research Center Telephone(919) 515-2273 Fax(919) 513-1787 Preferred Citation[Identification of item], Organization Photographs, UA 023.023, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC Access to CollectionThe nature of the NCSU Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NCSU Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Access to CollectionThis collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility. |
