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Recently digitized from an large collection of archival publications on agriculture, the Special Collections Research Center presents a small collection of cookbooks originally created by North…

Special Collections has received a couple of grants/awards during the past few years that are allowing us to digitize more materials on agricultural history.  The projects were recently…

The NC State University Libraries has been awarded $10,884.00 by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for “Extending NC Cooperative Extension Digital History,” a one-year…

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce that the collection guide for the newly processed North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, County Operations Records is now…

The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce that researchers can now access a great collection of agricultural drawings through our Rare and Unique Digital Collections site. Many…

Introduction During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to look back more than 100 years at the 1918 influenza pandemic and its impact on North Carolina State University (then called North…

The Special Collections Research Center is proud to announce a new collection guide is now available for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Audiovisual Materials.  The new guide…

Cook Me Right! was a 1983 NC Cooperative Extension pamphlet conveying the latest turkey-preparation information for that time.  It seems wrong, though, to depict the animal itself giving those…

I bought strawberries at the farmers market last weekend, and they were good!  I generally eat them fresh, but they reminded me of my mother's strawberry jam.  I found this hundred-year-old…

Back in March, Special Collections News looked at NC State during the 1918 influenza epidemic.  The posting touched on conditions on campus and the women who nursed the sick students.  Not…