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Students protest Mobile Oil outside of Harris Hall

New Timeline Available on Student Activism!

11/4/2024

This blog post was authored by Ell Woolard, Special Collections Graduate Assistant. The Special Collections Research Center is pleased to announce a new Student Activism timeline has been…

Protestors holding signs at protest against the death penalty, 1974.

Independence Day March: NC State Students Protest the Death Penalty in 1974

7/1/2024

This blog post was contributed by Katie Bushman, Special Collections Graduate Assistant. Please note that some historical materials may contain harmful content and/or descriptions. Learn…

Zook Report, 1923

Wonderful 100: Zook Report

5/19/2023

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…

dedication program

Fabulous 50: Gardner Arboretum Dedicated to Horticulture Professor

3/13/2023

On April 9, 1973, the Gardner Arboretum was dedicated and named for M.E. Gardner, the former head of the Department of Horticulture. Monroe Evans Gardner was active in North Carolina's agricultural…

Kristen Blake, Class of 2020 (Photo courtesy of Kristen Blake)

Identifying Campus Buildings: A University Archives Project

9/29/2020

This blog post is contributed by Kristen Blake, Class of 2020. My name is Kristen Blake and I am a senior in the Biological Sciences BA program with minors in Anthropology and Zoology. I have been…

All-Campus concert, circa 1970. The festival was held annually from the 1960s to the early 1970s, and it featured music concerts by such performers as Steppenwolf and B. B. King.

Fabulous 50: All-Campus Concert

4/24/2020

Fifty years ago on April 17-19, 1970, NC State hosted the 5th annual All-Campus festival.  All-Campus was an end-of-the-school-year, weekend-long event featuring concerts that started…

Plaque from NC State's Riddick Stadium (now demolished). The stadium was at the site now occupied by SAS Hall and the adjacent parking lot. The stadium stands and field house were constructed with New Deal funding. From UA 020, Oversize Box 115.

New Deal Construction on the NC State Campus

7/29/2019

Application for PWA funding for NC State's Nelson Hall, 1938.  From UA 003.004, Box 80, Folder 12. The NC State campus changed significantly with the New Deal, President Franklin D.…

This dining hall was set up for the North Carolina Exposition of 1884, which highlighted the state's progress in agriculture and industry.

Images from the Archives: A view of ever-changing Hillsborough Street

4/26/2017

All of the construction on Hillsborough Street may be turning the area into an unfamiliar place. However, while Hillsborough Street has been consistent in its importance to North Carolina State…

WolfWalk Turns Mobile Devices into NC State Time Machines

3/8/2010

Media Contact:dwhiscoe , NCSU Libraries, (919) 513-3425 When the Pack is out roaring around their territory in Raleigh, they will now be able to carry their group history along for the hunt. In…