5 collections related to Portraits, Group

One black-and-white photograph of North Carolina A&M students in their cadet uniforms, dated circa 1899. The image includes John Wade Shore (class of 1900), great grandfather of the donor. Daniel Harvey Hill, Jr., faculty member and later college president, may also be depicted in the image. Beginning in 1894 all students at North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (who were all male at the time) were designated as cadets and required to attend military drill three hours per week. Many early photographs from the 1890s to the 1910s show students in their cadet uniforms. Less

The North Carolina State University Athletics Photographs contain photographic prints, negatives, contact prints, slides, and transparencies that document the history of NC State athletics and supporting activities from 1893 to 2003. North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) officially became involved in athletics when it financed the school's football team in 1893, the year after the team's first unofficial games. Other sports were organized by the early twentieth century. All teams began using the nickname "Wolfpack" in 1947. As of 2006, NC State University has eleven men's and eleven women's varsity athletic teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Less

Photographs of people, activities, events, exhibitions, and programs related to home demonstration work in North Carolina from 1910 to 1976. Home demonstration, part of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension service, sought to provide better conditions in farm homes through adult education by demonstration, and North Carolina was one of five Southern states where it originated. It grew to over 65,000 women organized in 2,500 clubs throughout all of North Carolina's 100 counties by the mid-1960s, and in 1995 it became the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences in the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. Less