The Archive
Explore the surprising history of North Carolina food through the primary documents here, in The Archive. You'll find everything from horseradish Jell-O recipes to a silent film about the newfangled refrigerators of the 1910s. The documents, photographs, and films in The Archive are called primary sources because they offer evidence of what people in the past were thinking, saying, and doing. When a historian or person like you interprets primary sources, their interpretation is called a secondary source. Archives are traditionally places that hold historic materials with enduring value. Archives can be located inside libraries and historical societies, or they may operate indendently. Sometimes, they can be online.
Browse Primary Sources in the Archive (38 total)
Planning Your Kitchen for Easier Work
Date: 1963-07
Original Format: report
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Designed for Dining
Date: 1968
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Lillie B. Little, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
How Much Eating Meat?
Date: 1968-06
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: American Meat Institute, National Livestock and Meat Board, and University of Wisconsin Meat and Animal Science Department
The Use of Consumer Competence in Foods and Nutrition for Boys and Girls
Date: 1968-09-01
Original Format: report
Creator: Kathy M. McLaughlin
Estimated Annual Cost of Food (Per Capita)
Date: ca. 1963
Original Format: report
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Making Pickles and Relishes at Home
Date: ca. 1964
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: United States Department of Agriculture
Facts Relating to Home Food Supply
Date: 1962
Original Format: report
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Family Food Conservation Plan for a Year
Date: ca. 1968
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Iola Pritchard and S.Virginia Wilson, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
If You Choose to Eat Good Frozen Pork... Catch the Freshness and Hold It!
Date: 1961-05
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Nita Orr, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Smart or Lazy?
Date: 1961-07-14
Original Format: script
Creator: Nita Orr, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Tarheel Yam Dishes for Health and Happiness
Date: ca. 1968
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: S. Virginia Wilson, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Choose to Eat Well: Low, Moderate, and Liberal Cost Food Plans
Date: 1964-01
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Extension Nutrition Department, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Focus on Calling Consumers
Date: 1966
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Foods Produced, Conserved and Used at Home
Date: 1964
Original Format: memorandum
Creator: Minne Miller Brown
