Found matches for "textiles" in 7 collections

These records contain articles, brochures, budget information, clippings, correspondence, enrollment data, faculty information, financial information, lecture information, long range planning data, photographs, reports, seminar information, speeches, travel reports, research grants, and scholarship information documenting the Office of Dean in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University. The records also include files that document the partnerships between the college and textile-related industries. Materials range in date from 1899 to 2018. The College of Textiles at North Carolina State University began classes in the fall of 1899. By 1901 construction began on Tompkins Hall, the first textile building at North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The textiles program eventually needed more space for students and equipment so in 1940, moved to Nelson Hall on the western fringes of campus. In January 1991, the College of Textiles moved to Centennial Campus. Less

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 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. Less

This subgroup of the North Carolina State University Archives Photograph Collection includes approximately 600 copy negatives. The negatives depict a wide variety of subjects, with particular emphasis on the North Carolina State University campus and buildings, administrators and faculty, and athletics. There are also some negatives that depict the activities of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. North Carolina State University is a research-extensive, land grant institution located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts under the auspices of the federal Morrill Act of 1862, the school held its first classes in the fall of 1889. As of 2014, NC State is one of the seventeeen constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina system. Less

The University Archives Photograph Collection Visual and Performing Arts Photographs, circa 1899-1904, 1923-1997 (bulk 1954-1997), primarily document the activities of students in the arts programs administered by the North Carolina State University Division of Student Affairs, including the Music Department, the Crafts Center, the Gallery of Art and Design (later the Gregg Museum of Art and Design), the dance program, and the University Theater program. They also cover some of the professional visual and performing arts events that have taken place at NC State University, including concerts, dance performances, and theater performances by artists and companies not affiliated with the university. In addition to photographs, this collection includes some negatives and other items. Although student activity in the performing arts, particularly in a dramatic arts club, dates back to the late 1800s at North Carolina State University (then the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts), visual and performing arts at NC State University officially began with the formation of the Music Department in 1924. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the Division of Student Affairs, along with the leadership of the Erdahl-Cloyd Student Union, sought to expand arts offerings to the student body. Toward that end, the NC State University Craft Center, Gallery of Art and Design, University Theater, and dance program were established. In addition to these student arts activities, the Division of Student Affairs Arts NC State subdivision brings in performers from outside the university for special events on campus. Less

This collection contains approximately 400 oversize photographs (chiefly 8 x 10 inches and larger) from the University Archives Photograph Collection. The images depict various aspects of the history of North Carolina State University, including farm animals, agricultural extension work, athletics teams and team members, campus facilities, Greek letter societies, faculty, and students and student life. Also included in this collection are boxes of unprocessed material. The North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts was founded as the state's land-grant institution in 1887, and formally opened its doors two years later. Renamed the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering in 1917, the school became part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (later the University of North Carolina System) in 1932. The institution was restyled North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh in 1963, and two years later renamed North Carolina State University (officially the North Carolina State University at Raleigh). Less

Includes full and summary annual reports dated from 1889 to 2005 submitted by the College of Engineering to the Chancellor's Office, and individual departmental program and committee annual reports submitted to the Dean of Engineering. Each center, committee, department, institute, laboratory, office, and program of the College of Engineering is required to submit an annual report covering its activities to the Office of the Dean. The Office of the Dean publishes and submits a summary of the College's activities to the Chancellor of the University. Less