Special Collections Research Center

Frozen foods have been in the news recently, but the technique for freezing food goes back decades.  Cooperative Extension encouraged farm women to freeze produce and meat as early as the 1940s.   For many years Nita Orr was the frozen food expert for North Carolina Cooperative Extension.  During...

Typical of North Carolina weather, it’s only May and it’s already too hot to function. Many of you are on summer break or planning a vacation, and the best way to keep cool is to find the largest amount of water you can find and dive right in. NC State Libraries’ Special Collections Research...

May 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Phytotron, originally called the Southeastern Plant Environment Laboratory.  A few months before the dedication, the facility's first director (Robert Jack Downs) gave this description in the Technician: A phytotron is a system of...

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of U.S. participation in World War I, Special Collections continues its examination of the impact that the war had on NC State students, faculty, and campus.  The post below focuses on the faculty and staff of State College (now North Carolina State...

Springtime in North Carolina means berry season.  Check out the 1980 Extension publication Berries for Eating Year 'Round: How to Freeze, Can and Preserve (HE-173), recently digitized through a grant-funded project that is helping us make many historical NC Cooperative Extension publications...