Finishing Year One of Cultivating a Revolution
July 10, 2012
Year One of the Cultivating a Revolution: Science, Technology, and Change in North Carolina Agriculture, 1950-1979 digitization project wrapped up last week and we wanted to share what is available so far from the project before we begin Year Two!
This past year, we have digitized 15,772 pages from seven different archival collections. Some of the highlights include drawings done by Dr. William Johnson, Dr. William Splinter and their graduate assistants of tobacco harvesters and bulk curing barns developed to cure tobacco and correspondence with the international academic and business community regarding developments at NCSU on bulk curing and mechanized harvesting of tobacco and other crops. Go to our images database directly to check out what has been digitized at https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog?f%5Bispartof_facet%5D%5B%5D=Cultivating+a+Revolution .
114 16mm films are now available from the UA024 Subgroup 2 University Archives Film Collection and all the films can be accessed through the finding aid . Some films of interest include an interview with the developers of and the farmers who used the newly developed bulk curing barns in the mid-1960s, an aerial film of the State Fair in the early 1950s, and a visit to the NCSU Dairy Farm in the 1950s.
In Year Two we will be focusing on digitizing departmental records from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and will do monthly blog updates on what we’re scanning. Check back often to learn more and in the meantime, check out the project’s website at /scrc/cultivating-a-revolution for more information on the project and links to the digitized materials.