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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH CENTER
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Historical State
Historical State provides online access to a diverse set of historical resources, including digitized images, course catalogs, and yearbooks; historic timelines, narratives, and online exhibits; and catalog records of books about NC State University. Historical State can be used to explore the development of campus buildings, student life, athletics, and the academic colleges and departments. |
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The Built Heritage of North Carolina: Historic Architecture in the Old North State
"The Built Heritage of North Carolina: Historic Architecture in the Old North State," is an online resource for the study of North Carolina's architectural history. "Built Heritage" was made possible through a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered by the State Library of North Carolina's NC ECHO program.
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B. W. Wells Lantern Slides & Freda Wilkins Photographs of the Wells Savannah
Dr. Bertram Whittier Wells took hundreds of photographs of North Carolina
and beyond, converting them to lantern slides to accompany his lectures.
Many of his lantern slides, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, were hand
colored. North Carolina photographer Freda Wilkins has contributed another
1,000 photographs to the database, capturing four seasons of the Wells
Savannah in 2005 and 2006. An exhibit commemorating Dr. Wells' life and
work is available at: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/wells
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Dr. Metcalf: A resource on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers
A searchable bibliographic database providing a powerful tool for retrieving the pre-computer literature (1741-1955) on cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, spittlebugs, and treehoppers.
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Green 'N' Growing: The history of 4-H and Home Demonstration in North Carolina
Access digital reproductions of thousands of photographs, pamphlets, reports, and other materials that document the history of 4-H and Home Demonstration in North Carolina from the 1910s to the 1970s.
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Séguy's Insectes and Papillons
Two extremely rare portfolios created by Eugene Alain (E. A.) Séguy. Produced using the pochoir technique, which entails hand coloring each plate through a large number of stencils. Portfolios consist of 23 pages each, including 16 plates and 4 pattern pages. Published 1920s. |
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