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Morrow, Emmett Brown, 1896-1956
Size: 0.25 linear feet (1 Half box) Collection ID: MC 00047
The materials contained in this collection include correspondence, newsclippings, research materials and photographs documenting the life and work of Emmett Brown Morrow, a horticultural scientist and professor at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). Professor Emmett ...
MoreThe materials contained in this collection include correspondence, newsclippings, research materials and photographs documenting the life and work of Emmett Brown Morrow, a horticultural scientist and professor at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University). Professor Emmett Brown Morrow (1896 - 1956) was born in Rowan County, North Carolina and was one of nine children. He graduated from North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1921, with a B.S. degree and earned an M.S. degree from the University of California in 1924. He worked as a horticultural scientist and professor at North Carolina State College from 1926 to 1956.
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Size: 1.75 linear feet (2 archival storage boxes, 1 legal box) Collection ID: UA 026.001
This subgroup contains minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Endowment Funds of North Carolina State University, 1974-2010. Some minutes also contain correspondence, financial statements, bylaws, and other documents. The Board of Trustees of the Endowment Funds of North Carolina State University was established in 1974 ...
MoreThis subgroup contains minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Endowment Funds of North Carolina State University, 1974-2010. Some minutes also contain correspondence, financial statements, bylaws, and other documents. The Board of Trustees of the Endowment Funds of North Carolina State University was established in 1974 by a North Carolina statute authorizing North Carolina State University, as an institution of the University of North Carolina System, to establish a permanent fund that would be administered by a five-member board to include the Chancellor and the Chair of NC State University's Board of Trustees. This Board was later expanded to include six to nine members.
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Size: 3 linear feet (2 cartons) Collection ID: MC 00576
The Engineering Graphics Communication Teaching Aids and Conference Papers contain teaching aids and copies of papers presented at various conferences on the topic of teaching technical drawing and engineering graphics. The teaching aids provide students with problems and exercises to hone their abilities in depicting the design ...
MoreThe Engineering Graphics Communication Teaching Aids and Conference Papers contain teaching aids and copies of papers presented at various conferences on the topic of teaching technical drawing and engineering graphics. The teaching aids provide students with problems and exercises to hone their abilities in depicting the design process in product design and engineering. Some of these aids were published by General Motors. Materials range in date from 1956 to 1988.
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Size: 0.2 linear feet (1 flatfolder) Collection ID: MSS 00387
This collection includes an Engraving from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia ("Encyclopedie"), entitled "Aiguiller-Bonnetier" ("Needle and Cap Makers"), by engraver Robert Benard. Denis Diderot was a prominent philosopher during the Enlightenment. His most famous work was the Encyclopedia ("Encyclopedie"), a massive, multi-volume ...
MoreThis collection includes an Engraving from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia ("Encyclopedie"), entitled "Aiguiller-Bonnetier" ("Needle and Cap Makers"), by engraver Robert Benard. Denis Diderot was a prominent philosopher during the Enlightenment. His most famous work was the Encyclopedia ("Encyclopedie"), a massive, multi-volume compilation of world knowledge richly illustrated with engravings. The Encyclopedia was groundbreaking in its inclusion of the "mechanical arts," or crafts and trades, as exemplified in this engraving of the Needle and Cap Makers. This engraving depicts a workshop with the textiles tools and equipment shown individually underneath. It was engraved by Robert Benard, a French printmaker born in 1734.
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Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
Size: 0.2 linear feet (1 flat folder) Collection ID: MSS 00028
Two engravings from Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants. Included are plate 100 and plate 104 (appendix plate 4) from volume 2 of the second (1754) or third (1771) edition. Plate 100 pictures a branch of prickly ...
MoreTwo engravings from Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants. Included are plate 100 and plate 104 (appendix plate 4) from volume 2 of the second (1754) or third (1771) edition. Plate 100 pictures a branch of prickly apple (lily thorn) with a zebra swallowtail butterfly. Plate 104 pictures a branch of smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) with a Pennsylvania fly (giant ichneumon wasp). Also included is a color copy of each engraving. Mark Catesby (24 March 1682/83 - 23 December 1749) was an English naturalist. Between 1729 and 1747 Catesby published his book Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The book was the first publication to describe flora and fauna of North America. The book described 220 birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.From https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Catesby accessed 3/17/2021
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Entomological Society of America. Southeastern Branch
Size: 11 linear feet (22 archival boxes) Collection ID: MC 00156
The records of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) contain annual meeting programs; photographs of award winners, speakers, and officers; correspondence; financial statements; bound reports; reprints of published Branch history; meeting minutes; hotel contracts; cassette tapes; and a disk. This ...
MoreThe records of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) contain annual meeting programs; photographs of award winners, speakers, and officers; correspondence; financial statements; bound reports; reprints of published Branch history; meeting minutes; hotel contracts; cassette tapes; and a disk. This collection also contains a small file of correspondence and financial information on the Cotton States Branch of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, a predecessor organization. Materials are dated from 1937 to 2010. The Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America includes members from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the United States Territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The organization was established August 2, 1904. A group of entomologists concerned with damage to the cotton crop by the boll weevil elected C. E. Chambliss of South Carolina as Chairman and organized the Association of Official Entomologists of the Cotton Belt, later known as Association of Cotton States Entomologists. The group was active during the ensuing years and was affiliated with the American Association of Economic Entomologists as the Cotton States Branch on December 31, 1925. The American Association of Economic Entomologists merged with the Entomological Society of America in 1953. The name of the branch was changed to Southeastern Branch in 1959.
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Flannagan, Eric G. (Eric Goodyear), 1892-1970
Size: 145 linear feet (134 document cases, 117 tubes of drawings, and 68 flat folders of drawings.) Collection ID: MC 00087
Contained in this collection are project files and drawings of buildings designed by Eric G. Flannagan and the firm Eric G. Flannagan and Sons, Architects and Engineers. The materials in this collection represents a sampling of the buildings designed by Flannagan and his company. They primarily date from the time period when ...
MoreContained in this collection are project files and drawings of buildings designed by Eric G. Flannagan and the firm Eric G. Flannagan and Sons, Architects and Engineers. The materials in this collection represents a sampling of the buildings designed by Flannagan and his company. They primarily date from the time period when Flannagan was most active,1922-1949. Eric G. Flannagan, Sr. (1892-1970) was an architect and engineer practicing most of his life in North Carolina. He specialized in institutional buildings, especially hospitals and schools, but his work also included houses, churches, stores, and offices.
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Hinesley, Eric
Size: 429 Megabytes; 86 Files Collection ID: MC 00712
The Eric Hinesley Research Collection on Atlantic White Cedar contains digital files related to Dr. Hinesley's research interests in Atlantic White Cedar. Included are photograph files in tiff and jpeg format with related captions attached as a word document. Materials range in date from 2002 to 2022. Eric Hinesley was a horticulture ...
MoreThe Eric Hinesley Research Collection on Atlantic White Cedar contains digital files related to Dr. Hinesley's research interests in Atlantic White Cedar. Included are photograph files in tiff and jpeg format with related captions attached as a word document. Materials range in date from 2002 to 2022. Eric Hinesley was a horticulture professor at NC State University from 1978 to 2010. During his time as a faculty member, he conducted full-time research related to Christmas tree production in North Carolina. He also conducted studies on wetland restoration with an emphasis on Atlantic White Cedar and Bald Cypress. Dr. Hinesley received a bachelor's and master's degree in Forestry at NC State University in 1971 and 1973, respectively, and he received a Ph.D. in Forestry and Forest Soils at Mississippi State University in 1978.
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Wood, Ernest H., III, 1947-
Size: 5.25 linear feet (7 archival boxes, 2 legal boxes, 1 cardbox) Collection ID: MC 00438
This collection comprises research files for the chapters that Wood contributed to the book Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building, including correspondence, project notes, photographs and photograph permissions requests, interviews with architects (including audiotapes), newsclippings, and ...
MoreThis collection comprises research files for the chapters that Wood contributed to the book Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building, including correspondence, project notes, photographs and photograph permissions requests, interviews with architects (including audiotapes), newsclippings, and some architectural drawings. Also included are publications by Wood as well as research pertaining to other writing projects featuring architecture and design as a central theme. Ernest H. (Ernie) Wood III was an architectural writer for Southern Living and an editor for North Carolina Architect. He has also published articles in the AIA Journal and other periodicals. For the 1990 book Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (co-authored with with Catherine Bishir, Charlotte Vestal Brown, and Carl Lounsbury), he authored the final chapter, entitled "The Opportunities Are Unlimited: Architects and Builders since 1945."
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Gooden, Ernest L.
Size: 28 linear feet (44 boxes, 14 card boxes, 1 carton, 1 half box, 1 legal box) Collection ID: MC 00101
Ernest L. Gooden (1903-1970) was born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. Gooden graduated from Duke University, and taught at Glen Alpine High School in Glen Alpine, North Carolina, from 1927 to 1930. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an assistant scientific aide in September of 1930. Gooden had a 40-year career as a ...
MoreErnest L. Gooden (1903-1970) was born in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. Gooden graduated from Duke University, and taught at Glen Alpine High School in Glen Alpine, North Carolina, from 1927 to 1930. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an assistant scientific aide in September of 1930. Gooden had a 40-year career as a physicist with the USDA and specialized in pesticides. The Ernest L. Gooden Papers consists of materials documenting Gooden's career with the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. Drafts and manuscripts of articles by Gooden include "Report of Physical Properties of Pesticides" and "Optical Crystallographic Properties of DDT." Research files contain notes, graphs, charts, and articles with labels like "Viscosity," "Zinc Arsenate," "Sodium Arsenite," and "Rotenone." This collection also contains electron microscope micrographs, patents and patent applications by Gooden, and hundreds of 3 x 5" x-ray diffraction data cards published by the Joint Committee on Chemical Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction Methods. These x-ray diffraction cards contain notes, calculations, and authors and their publications. Also included in this collection are glass slides, photos and negatives of electron microscope images, approximately a thousand 3 x 4" cards of chemical compounds and other notes, and materials from the annual meetings of the Electron Microscopy Society of America from 1949 to 1966.
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Mechler, Esther
Size: 10.175 linear feet (11 boxes, 4 legalboxes, 1Legalhalfbox, 1 halfbox, 1 flatbox, 1 cardbox and 1 mapfolder,) Collection ID: MC 00322
The Esther Mechler Papers consists of papers and artifacts documenting Mechler's interest and participation in the animal rights and animal welfare movement. It includes writings by individuals and organizations, as well as published volumes and periodicals. Correspondence about animal or animal rights-related issues and the ...
MoreThe Esther Mechler Papers consists of papers and artifacts documenting Mechler's interest and participation in the animal rights and animal welfare movement. It includes writings by individuals and organizations, as well as published volumes and periodicals. Correspondence about animal or animal rights-related issues and the background work for two of Mechler's animal rights projects are also present, as well as audiovisual materials and memorabilia from various animal rights or animal welfare groups and events. Esther Mechler has been involved with the animal rights and animal welfare movement since the 1970s. An instrumental figure in several organizations, she was a founding member of both the Fairfield County, Connecticut branch of Friends of the Animals, and the national Animal Rights Network. Mechler worked to create and distribute animal protection related audio-visual materials and has also been particularly active in the area of preventing pet overpopulation. In 1990 she founded Spay/USA, a national referral service for low-cost spay/neutering.
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Davenport, Iris, Schaub, Millicent
Size: 0.04 linear feet (1 folder) Collection ID: MSS 00434
Contained in this collections are Eti-Cue Series pamphlets Nos. 1-2 and 4-12. No. 3 is missing. These were published by the Southern Agriculturist, and the authors are Iris Davenport and Millicent Schaub. Each covers a particular topic of etiquette, courtesy, and manners, e.g., "Cues for Popularity," "Eti-Cues for Mealtime," ...
MoreContained in this collections are Eti-Cue Series pamphlets Nos. 1-2 and 4-12. No. 3 is missing. These were published by the Southern Agriculturist, and the authors are Iris Davenport and Millicent Schaub. Each covers a particular topic of etiquette, courtesy, and manners, e.g., "Cues for Popularity," "Eti-Cues for Mealtime," "Courtesy Cues for Public Places," etc. None are dated, but they were probably published in the 1940s. Iris Davenport and Millicent Schaub were editors of the Women's Department of the Southern Agriculturist during the 1940s. The Southern Agriculturist farm journal published from 1869 to 1949, and in 1950 it merged with the Farm and Ranch journal to become Farm and Ranch with Southern Agriculturist.
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Wullschleger, Arthur, 1898-902
Size: 0.12 linear feet Collection ID: MSS 00391
Etude des Files is a bound manuscript volume containing handwritten notes in French about thread, with samples of thread and notes related to each sample. The largest part of the book is about silk but there are also pages on cottons, flax, hemp, ramie, jute, wools, and other threads. At head of title is written "Cours de tissage." A ...
MoreEtude des Files is a bound manuscript volume containing handwritten notes in French about thread, with samples of thread and notes related to each sample. The largest part of the book is about silk but there are also pages on cottons, flax, hemp, ramie, jute, wools, and other threads. At head of title is written "Cours de tissage." A bookplate on the inside front cover says that this book was given to Wullschleger by "Th. Bon, professeur de Théorie de Tissage, Ecole industrielle de Courconig[?]" Arthur Wullschleger studied weaving in Lyon, France, in 1899-1900. He may have been from d'Aarbourg, Switzerland.
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Lambeth, Eugene Edgar
Size: 0.011 linear feet (1 folder) Collection ID: MSS 00182
The Eugene Edgar Lambeth letters consists of photocopies and transcriptions of two letters Lambeth wrote as a student at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now North Carolina State University) in 1891. One letter is to his father asking for money to pay his board. In the second letter, Lambeth relates his ...
MoreThe Eugene Edgar Lambeth letters consists of photocopies and transcriptions of two letters Lambeth wrote as a student at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now North Carolina State University) in 1891. One letter is to his father asking for money to pay his board. In the second letter, Lambeth relates his activities to his cousin Minnie, and requests a visit from her. Chatham County native Eugene Edgar Lambeth, Jr., entered North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as a freshman in 1891.
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Brown, Eugene Wilson, 1938-
Size: 0.3 linear feet (1 flatfolder) Collection ID: MSS 00403
The Eugene Wilson Brown Architectural Blueprints of the Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brim Vacation Home consists of 1 roll of architectural blueprints of the Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brim Vacation Home in Lake Gaston, Warren County, North Carolina, dating to 1976. It was commissioned around 1972 and was built over many weekends by the ...
MoreThe Eugene Wilson Brown Architectural Blueprints of the Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brim Vacation Home consists of 1 roll of architectural blueprints of the Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Brim Vacation Home in Lake Gaston, Warren County, North Carolina, dating to 1976. It was commissioned around 1972 and was built over many weekends by the owners. The architecture is representative of Eugene Wilson Brown's modernist residential designs. Eugene (Gene) Wilson Brown (1938- ) was a Raleigh modernist architect who was known for his residential designs and downtown revitalization projects. Born in Oxford, North Carolina, and raised in a number of North Carolina towns, he graduated from Durham High School in Durham, North Carolina, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Architecture from the North Carolina State University School of Design in 1964, and a Master of Architecture and Urban Design from Washington University. He worked in University Planning at both NC State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in 1982 established his own private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Case, Everett N. (Everett Norris), 1900-1966
Size: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder) Collection ID: MSS 00103
Pamphlet, certificate and letters of Everett N. Case. The pamphlet, The New Pressure Game in Basketball, contains 26 pages of instructions and diagrams that explain how to have a successful team. It also includes conclusions from Case's master thesis, An Analysis of the Effects of Various Factors on Accuracy of Shooting Free Throws ...
MorePamphlet, certificate and letters of Everett N. Case. The pamphlet, The New Pressure Game in Basketball, contains 26 pages of instructions and diagrams that explain how to have a successful team. It also includes conclusions from Case's master thesis, An Analysis of the Effects of Various Factors on Accuracy of Shooting Free Throws in Basketball. Ther certificate, 17 August 1946, is a Certificate of Satisfactory Service on active duty in the United States Navy during World War II. One letter, 11 July 1946, from A. W. Radford, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), to Case commends Case for his superb performance of duty while serving in the Naval Flight Preparatory School, Depauw University. The other letter, 25 August 1944, from Clide E. Wildman, President of Depauw University, to Case, expresses appreciation for Case's work on the DePauw campus and wishes him luck and success in the Navy. Everett N. Case (1900-1966) was the head basketball coach at North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) from 1946 to 1964. During these 18 years, his teams won 379 games, including ten conference championships. In 1949, Case founded the Dixie Classic Tournament. He received his B.S. in Physical Education from the University of Wisconsin (1923) and his Master's degree from the University of Southern California (1934). Case was also a highly successful high school basketball coach in his native Indiana. He was a coach and athletic director in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946, discharged with the rank of Commander.
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Williams, Carter, 1912-2000
Size: 133.7 linear feet (463 tubes, 12 flat folder, 25 cartons) Collection ID: MC 00436
The F. Carter Williams Drawings and Files, 1928, 1940-1994, contain drawings and project files for many buildings designed by F. Carter Williams and his firm. Included are blueprints for the Mr. and Mrs. Guy H. Branaman residence in Raleigh, North Carolina, blueprints for the F. Carter Williams residence, as well as blueprints of ...
MoreThe F. Carter Williams Drawings and Files, 1928, 1940-1994, contain drawings and project files for many buildings designed by F. Carter Williams and his firm. Included are blueprints for the Mr. and Mrs. Guy H. Branaman residence in Raleigh, North Carolina, blueprints for the F. Carter Williams residence, as well as blueprints of other residential projects, churches, and schools. Also included are drawings and blueprints for projects at North Carolina universities, including Duke, North Carolina State, East Carolina, and Meredith. There are project files for many of the same buildings, as well as for several state buildings, including the North Carolina Legislative Building, and building at several parks. Fred Carter Williams (1912-2000) was a Raleigh, North Carolina, architect who designed more than 600 projects throughout the state of North Carolina.
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Hardy, Alison Grudier, FabriCAD Consulting
Size: 11 linear feet (23 archival boxes) Collection ID: MC 00333
The FabriCAD Collection documents the activities of FabriCAD Consulting, a company established by Alison Grudier Hardy in the 1990s to provide consulting services to companies in the fashion and textile industries interested in using Computer Aided Design (CAD). Materials in the collection include information on various CAD systems, ...
MoreThe FabriCAD Collection documents the activities of FabriCAD Consulting, a company established by Alison Grudier Hardy in the 1990s to provide consulting services to companies in the fashion and textile industries interested in using Computer Aided Design (CAD). Materials in the collection include information on various CAD systems, articles about FabriCAD, CAD systems, the textile industry, company publications, and fabric samples of CAD printing. In January 2003 Hardy discontinued the company's operations.
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Size: 0.5477 gigabytes (77 files) Collection ID: KC 0024
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Morris, Christopher (Father Christopher Morris)
Size: 0.0094 gigabytes (1 file) Collection ID: GR 0011