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North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Size: 4.5 linear feet (9 archival boxes); 3 kilobytes; 1 file Collection ID: UA 050.002
The University Archives Reference Collection, Institutional Histories subgroup contain clippings, correspondence, news releases, publications, reports, speeches, and related materials concerning the University's various colleges, departments, institutes, and other entities. This is an artificial collection and is maintained by ...
MoreThe University Archives Reference Collection, Institutional Histories subgroup contain clippings, correspondence, news releases, publications, reports, speeches, and related materials concerning the University's various colleges, departments, institutes, and other entities. This is an artificial collection and is maintained by Special Collections staff. North Carolina State University was established in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (A&M College). The College opened in 1889 with one building - the current Holladay Hall - six faculty, and courses in the agricultural and mechanical arts, adding a curriculum in applied science in 1893. By the turn of the century the College had grown to some half dozen buildings, about 300 students, and had begun to diversify its curricula. In 1917, the institution's name was changed to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (State College). 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,. North Carolina State is now one of the constituent institutions of the multi-campus University of North Carolina system, having received university status, and, after some controversy, assumed its current name in 1965. As of 2007, N.C. State had a student body of nearly 30,000, nearly two thousand faculty, and research and program expenditures of over $440 million.
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North Carolina State University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center
Size: 8.3 linear feet (13 archival boxes, 12 flat folders, 1 flat box) Collection ID: UA 050.004
The University Archives Reference Collection, University Buildings, Sites, & Landmarks subgroup contains clippings, correspondence, news releases, publications, reports, speeches, and related archival material concerning the physical features of the University landscape. This is an artificial collection, maintained by Special ...
MoreThe University Archives Reference Collection, University Buildings, Sites, & Landmarks subgroup contains clippings, correspondence, news releases, publications, reports, speeches, and related archival material concerning the physical features of the University landscape. This is an artificial collection, maintained by Special Collections staff. North Carolina State University was established in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (A&M College). The College opened in 1889 with one building - the current Holladay Hall - six faculty, and courses in the agricultural and mechanical arts, adding a curriculum in applied science in 1893. By the turn of the century the College had grown to some half dozen buildings, about 300 students, and had begun to diversify its curricula. In 1917, the institution's name was changed to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (State College). 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,. North Carolina State is now one of the constituent institutions of the multi-campus University of North Carolina system, having received university status, and, after some controversy, assumed its current name in 1965. As of 2007, N.C. State had a student body of nearly 30,000, nearly two thousand faculty, and research and program expenditures of over $440 million.
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Downs, Murray Scott, Beers, Burton F.
Size: 0.95 linear feet (1 flat folder, 1 archival half box, 1 card box.) Collection ID: UA 010.005
The North Carolina State University: A Pictorial History Project Files contains research materials, administrative files, and graphic material (including negative strips, photographs, contact sheets, clippings, and an oversized photograph of the book's cover) which contributed to the development and writing of the book, North ...
MoreThe North Carolina State University: A Pictorial History Project Files contains research materials, administrative files, and graphic material (including negative strips, photographs, contact sheets, clippings, and an oversized photograph of the book's cover) which contributed to the development and writing of the book, North Carolina State University: A Pictorial History, which was written by Murray Scott Downs and Burton F. Beers and published in 1986. North Carolina State University: A Pictorial History was written by Murray Scott Downs and Burton F. Beers, historians at North Carolina State University, with the support of the North Carolina State University Alumni Association. It was published in 1986 to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the University's founding (in 1887).
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Size: 778.56 gigabytes (5,313 files); 4.2 linear feet (2 legal boxes, 1 carton, and 1 flat box) Collection ID: KC 0042
Size: 0.05 linear feet (1 folder) Collection ID: MSS 00381
One black-and-white photograph of North Carolina A&M students in their cadet uniforms, dated circa 1899. The image includes John Wade Shore (class of 1900), great grandfather of the donor. Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr., faculty member and later college president, may also be depicted in the image. Beginning in 1894 all students at ...
MoreOne black-and-white photograph of North Carolina A&M students in their cadet uniforms, dated circa 1899. The image includes John Wade Shore (class of 1900), great grandfather of the donor. Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr., faculty member and later college president, may also be depicted in the image. Beginning in 1894 all students at North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (who were all male at the time) were designated as cadets and required to attend military drill three hours per week. Many early photographs from the 1890s to the 1910s show students in their cadet uniforms.
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Polk Family
Size: 0.25 linear feet (1 box) Collection ID: MC 00013
The Polk Family Papers, 1850-1961, contain correspondence, newspaper articles, recipes, printed booklets, typed manuscripts, and a nineteenth-century memory book relating to the personal life and professional activities of Leonidas Lafayette Polk and members and friends of his family. Included are a small number of documents ...
MoreThe Polk Family Papers, 1850-1961, contain correspondence, newspaper articles, recipes, printed booklets, typed manuscripts, and a nineteenth-century memory book relating to the personal life and professional activities of Leonidas Lafayette Polk and members and friends of his family. Included are a small number of documents concerning Polk's daughter Juanita Polk Denmark and the Turrentine family of Hillsborough, North Carolina. Polk family of North Carolina includes Leonidas Lafayette Polk (1837-1892), who was a North Carolina government official, Civil War veteran, politician, farmer, businessman, and journalist. Throughout his career, Polk supported and led campaigns on behalf of educational institutions and agricultural development. He organized the state's farmers to lobby for a state agricultural college; joined with the Watauga Club, they successfully established the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) in 1887.
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Utley, R. G., 1924-
Size: 1 linear foot (2 boxes) Collection ID: MC 00357
Contains notes, photographs, photocopies, and other documents relating to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity events at North Carolina State University from 1899 through 1956, especially the baseball game and Pika ball held annually on Easter Monday. Robert Gerald (Hank) Utley (1924-2014), executive director of the Cabarrus County Boys ...
MoreContains notes, photographs, photocopies, and other documents relating to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity events at North Carolina State University from 1899 through 1956, especially the baseball game and Pika ball held annually on Easter Monday. Robert Gerald (Hank) Utley (1924-2014), executive director of the Cabarrus County Boys Club in Concord, North Carolina, graduated from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1950. While he was a student, he played on the baseball team, 1946-1950, and was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Bryant, Ralph Clement, 1877-
Size: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder) Collection ID: MSS 00150
Ralph Clement Bryant (1913-1994) was the son of R. C. Bryant, the first person to receive a forestry degree in the United States. The younger Bryant received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He joined the North Carolina State University faculty in 1952 and in 1970 was ...
MoreRalph Clement Bryant (1913-1994) was the son of R. C. Bryant, the first person to receive a forestry degree in the United States. The younger Bryant received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He joined the North Carolina State University faculty in 1952 and in 1970 was recognized as an outstanding teacher of the year. The younger Bryant was a member of Sigma Xi, Xi Sigma Pi, Alpha Zeta, the Society of American Foresters, the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The Ralph Clement Bryant family papers consist of a notebook and typed pages related to coursework in silviculture. The notebook, dated 1899 and labeled "Forestry 3 -- Silviculture," belonged to R. C. Bryant, the father of Ralph Clement Bryant, who became Professor of Forestry at North Carolina State University. The typed pages consist of an outline of the subject of silviculture and a set of exam questions. These are undated and may have belonged to the son, Professor Ralph Clement Bryant.
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Size: 39 linear feet (72 archival boxes, 1 legal sized archival box, 4 flat files) Collection ID: MC 00312
The Ralph W. Cummings Papers document the personal and professional life of Ralph W. Cummings. The primary focus of the collection is Cummings' career as a professor, researcher and administrator working at North Carolina State University and with international organizations in the fields of soil science and agronomy. The collection ...
MoreThe Ralph W. Cummings Papers document the personal and professional life of Ralph W. Cummings. The primary focus of the collection is Cummings' career as a professor, researcher and administrator working at North Carolina State University and with international organizations in the fields of soil science and agronomy. The collection also contains the personal papers and letters of Ralph Cummings and the Cummings family papers which include a number of land deeds and legal documents dating from 1840 until 2001 as well as the personal papers of extended family members. Ralph W. Cummings (1911-2001) was born in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was the head of the Department of Agronomy at North Carolina State University from 1942 until 1947. He held a number of administrative positions for the University over the scope of his career, as well as working in research and leadership positions for a number of national and international organizations concerned with world agriculture and agricultural education and research.
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Green, Ralph Waldo
Size: 2.6 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 flat boxes, 2 flat folders) Collection ID: MC 00126
The Ralph Waldo Green papers include materials documenting Green's education at Cornell University, his career as an editor in the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, his experience as an agricultural-cooperative organizer, his tenure at North Carolina State College, and his avocation of ornithology and conservation. The ...
MoreThe Ralph Waldo Green papers include materials documenting Green's education at Cornell University, his career as an editor in the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, his experience as an agricultural-cooperative organizer, his tenure at North Carolina State College, and his avocation of ornithology and conservation. The papers include professional and personal writings by both him and his wife, Charlotte Hilton Green. The collection also contains correspondence, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and a scrapbook. Ralph Waldo Green (1885-1946) taught economics at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1925 until 1946. Green also worked as an agricultural editor for the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. Green received a B.S. from Cornell University in 1914 and an M.S. in Sociology from North Carolina State College in 1925. For a brief time, he was connected with Tri-State Tobacco Cooperative as editor and organizer and during World War I, he served in the Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army.
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Schnedl, Richard
Size: 23.95 linear feet (81 tubes, 3 document cases, 2 flat folder drawers) Collection ID: MC 00428
The Richard B. Schnedl Papers, 1896-2011, document the professional activities of architect Richard Burke Schnedl and his architectural firms. The collection contains drawings and plans for a number of Schnedl’s projects and several historic buildings designed by other architects, which include site plans, floor plans, electrical and ...
MoreThe Richard B. Schnedl Papers, 1896-2011, document the professional activities of architect Richard Burke Schnedl and his architectural firms. The collection contains drawings and plans for a number of Schnedl’s projects and several historic buildings designed by other architects, which include site plans, floor plans, electrical and plumbing plans, elevations, sections, and details. The remaining records are grouped as project files, office records, and personal papers. North Carolina-based architect Richard Burke Schnedl specialized in residential design, especially at Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Schnedl received a B.Arch. from North Carolina State College and went on to work with Leslie N. Boney, Edwin Schnedl (Schnedl & Schnedl), Hayes, Howell & Associates, and later ran his own firm called Richard B. Schnedl, Architect and Richard B. Schnedl & Partner (later John W. Thompson, Architect, P.A.).
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Braham, Roscoe R.
Size: 115.85 linear feet (95 boxes, 38 cartons, 6 half boxes, 5 card boxes, 4 legal boxes, 4 flat boxes, 2 reel boxes, 2 flat folders, 2 artifact boxes, 1 legal half box) Collection ID: MC 00397
The Roscoe Braham Papers contain material documenting Braham's career, including correspondence (some handwritten), office files, research notes, grant proposals and reports, notes and related documentation from meetings and conferences, class notes, and personal records from 1863 to 2011 with some undated material. Also included are ...
MoreThe Roscoe Braham Papers contain material documenting Braham's career, including correspondence (some handwritten), office files, research notes, grant proposals and reports, notes and related documentation from meetings and conferences, class notes, and personal records from 1863 to 2011 with some undated material. Also included are black and white photographs and negatives, newspaper articles, pamphlets, bound reports on research projects, glass slides, slides, film reels, annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Council Meeting correspondence from the 1940s to 2000 and beyond, and articles and reference material dating back to 1863. The records provide insight into Braham's research on cloud precipitation physics, his engagement with other scientists, scholars, and institutions, like the University of Chicago and North Carolina State University, and his involvement with professional organizations. Roscoe R. Braham Jr. is a pioneering meteorologist, educator, expert in cloud precipitation physics, and visiting professor at North Carolina State University. He earned a bachelor's degree in geology in 1942 from the Ohio University. Braham completed his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago, joined the University of Chicago staff in 1952 as a research meteorologist and retired in 1991 after thirty-seven years, twenty-six of them as a full professor. Braham has published more than eighty scientific reports, books, and monographs during his academic career. Braham joined the American Meteorological Society in 1945 and served as its president in 1988. He is credited for the discovery of the cell organization of thunderstorms as well as the coalescence-freezing mechanism of precipitation formation in natural clouds.
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Berry, Rynn
Size: 51.75 linear feet (50 boxes, 13 legal boxes, 1 flatbox, 3 oversize flatboxes, and 12 artifact boxes) Collection ID: MC 00609
The Rynn Berry Jr. Papers include record files, books, periodicals, articles taken from periodicals, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, manuscripts, writing drafts, research notes, interview transcripts, facsimiles, drawings, photographs, correspondence, audio recordings, video recordings, and computer disks, relating to Rynn Berry's ...
MoreThe Rynn Berry Jr. Papers include record files, books, periodicals, articles taken from periodicals, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, manuscripts, writing drafts, research notes, interview transcripts, facsimiles, drawings, photographs, correspondence, audio recordings, video recordings, and computer disks, relating to Rynn Berry's interests in vegetarianism, veganism, and animal rights. Rynn Berry, Jr. was an author, lecturer, and activist who dedicated his life to increasing public awareness on vegetarianism, veganism, animal rights, and the religious and ethical aspects of these topics. He was regarded as an expert on the history of vegetarianism, and he wrote many books, articles, book entries, in addition to giving lectures and participating in discussion panels.
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Leffingwell, Albert, 1845-1916, Eddy, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1851-1945
Size: 0.25 linear feet (1 archival storage box) Collection ID: MC 00666
Correspondence, 1895-1905 and undated, between Sarah J. Eddy and Albert Leffingwell, chiefly on the subject of anti-vivisectionism. Sarah J. Eddy (1851-1945) of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was an artist and photographer who was active in reform movements. She was an animal welfare activist and vegetarian, who was instrumental in ...
MoreCorrespondence, 1895-1905 and undated, between Sarah J. Eddy and Albert Leffingwell, chiefly on the subject of anti-vivisectionism. Sarah J. Eddy (1851-1945) of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was an artist and photographer who was active in reform movements. She was an animal welfare activist and vegetarian, who was instrumental in founding the Rhode Island Humane Education Association. Albert Leffingwell, M.D. (1845-1916) of Aurora, New York, was a physician and social reformer who advocated for vivisection reform.
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Size: 1.26 linear feet (1 archival legal boxes) Collection ID: MC 00463
The Schenck-Warlick Textile Mill Collection of Papers and Artifacts contains exhibit labels, a drawing, Articles of Agreement, and an iron spindle, all pertaining to the Schenck-Warlick Textile Mill, the first textile mill in North Carolina. Materials range in date from 1813 to 1871, with some documentation dating from 1991. The ...
MoreThe Schenck-Warlick Textile Mill Collection of Papers and Artifacts contains exhibit labels, a drawing, Articles of Agreement, and an iron spindle, all pertaining to the Schenck-Warlick Textile Mill, the first textile mill in North Carolina. Materials range in date from 1813 to 1871, with some documentation dating from 1991. The first textile mill in North Carolina was built before 1813 in Lincoln County, 1.5 miles east of Lincolnton. Michael Schenck built the mill and later partnered with Absolom Warlick to build a second in 1816. Through the 1820s and 1830s the profitable operation of the Schenck mills was a model to many more in North Carolina. The Schenck-Warlick Mill firmly established the Southern Textile industry.
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Chaffin family
Size: 1.25 linear feet (1 box, 1 legal box) Collection ID: MC 00234
Shadrach Chaffin's journal documents agricultural life, business, events, and the weather in and near Vernon Township, Ohio, from the mid-1800s through the 1930s. The journal was used for varying purposes. Consequently, there is little discernible order in terms of pagination. As Chaffin wrote on page 133 of his journal, "When I am ...
MoreShadrach Chaffin's journal documents agricultural life, business, events, and the weather in and near Vernon Township, Ohio, from the mid-1800s through the 1930s. The journal was used for varying purposes. Consequently, there is little discernible order in terms of pagination. As Chaffin wrote on page 133 of his journal, "When I am gone to return no more this book will be searched and read over be careful to read all, it will be some trouble, as dates run back as well as forward." Also included in the collection are a handwritten transcription of parts of the journal , a published genealogy of the Chaffin family in the United States, genealogical notes, and a clipping with a story of a Chaffin family in North Carolina. Shadrach Chaffin (1797-1884) of Vernon Township, Ohio, managed a farm and was involved in business, local government, legal affairs, and banking.
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Noblin, Stuart, 1913-1977
Size: 4.5 linear feet (6 archival boxes, 1 legal sized archival box) Collection ID: MC 00051
This collection contains the professional papers of Stuart McGuire Noblin, including those related to his professorship at North Carolina State University, and on topics of his research, including farmers' movements, the National Grange, and the role of churches in constructive race relations. Also contained in this collection are ...
MoreThis collection contains the professional papers of Stuart McGuire Noblin, including those related to his professorship at North Carolina State University, and on topics of his research, including farmers' movements, the National Grange, and the role of churches in constructive race relations. Also contained in this collection are Noblin's personal papers from his involvement in the North Carolina Chess Association. Stuart Noblin was a professor in the Departments of History and Political Science at North Carolina State University from 1947 to 1976. He also served as part-time University Archivist from 1957 to 1964, as well as chairman of the Committee on the History of the College, and was a member of the Faculty Senate from 1957 to 1961. Noblin was also active in the North Carolina Chess Association.
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Burlington Textiles Library
Size: 13.25 linear feet (19 boxes, 1 legal box, 3 flat boxes, 1 oversize flat box) Collection ID: MC 00089
Textile industry-produced marketing materials, reports, brochures, catalogs, etc., complete, in many cases, with textile samples documenting the effectiveness of particular dyestuffs on the various fabrics. Also included are a small number of government documents. The Institute of Textile Technology transferred its library to North ...
MoreTextile industry-produced marketing materials, reports, brochures, catalogs, etc., complete, in many cases, with textile samples documenting the effectiveness of particular dyestuffs on the various fabrics. Also included are a small number of government documents. The Institute of Textile Technology transferred its library to North Carolina State University's Burlington Textiles Library when it moved its operations to the NC State University Centennial Campus. The Burlington Textiles Library had maintained for years a vertical file for quick reference. After the merger of the two libraries, the Burlington Textiles Library transferred the historically valuable materials from both collections to the NC State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center.
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Syrian Society of the City of New York (New York City, New York)
Size: 0.1123 gigabytes (4 files) Collection ID: GR 0009
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Kennedy, Sidney G. (Sidney Gustavus)
Size: 0.05 linear feet (1 folder) Collection ID: MSS 00081
The Tobacco Industry of North Carolina. A Thesis Submitted to the North Carolina College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts by Sidney G. Kennedy, for Degree Bachelor of Science, Course in Agriculture. 1897. This thesis is handwritten in cursive script. Sidney G. Kennedy attended the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic ...
MoreThe Tobacco Industry of North Carolina. A Thesis Submitted to the North Carolina College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts by Sidney G. Kennedy, for Degree Bachelor of Science, Course in Agriculture. 1897. This thesis is handwritten in cursive script. Sidney G. Kennedy attended the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) in the class of 1897.
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