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Since 2020, the Special Collections Research Center has maintained a Reparative Archival Description group to identify and discuss harmful language in our collection guides and digital collections.…

Student in witch costume at Halloween dance. As Halloween approaches, we wanted to highlight a few of the spookier items in our collections. A previous post showcased a few images from our…

This blog is part of a series of posts featuring stories and photos from NC State’s College of Design, formerly School of Design. In celebration of the College’s 75th anniversary, the Special…

Blog post contributed by Allison Hall, Special Collections Graduate Assistant. We’re back with another Weather PastCast! We’re returning to the United States Weather Bureau, Raleigh Office…

It was fun posting the Weather PastCast a couple weeks ago, and we wanted to do another.  Last week was another really hot one in Raleigh, with record breaking highs on Tuesday (September 5, 98…

Special Collections staff thought it would be fun to travel back in time and highlight this week in Raleigh, N.C., weather from the past.  Here is a weather report from 100 years ago with…

Finding aid. Manuscript collection. Scope and content note. Archival terms like these can be confusing at best and intimidating at worst for first time researchers. We previously published a…

This post was authored by Special Collections' Graduate Assistant Allison Hall and edited by Taylor Wolford.In the years following the conclusion of World War I, the number of students and faculty at…

Wolf Tales—the Libraries’ story-collecting program to document NC State’s history in the voices of those creating it—is going virtual. The project, run by the Libraries’ Special Collections Research…

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Yale University Art Gallery to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, whether working in Paris or Milan or London, John M. Hall, born on a farm in rural NC,…