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 (10 total)
Save Waste Fats for Explosives
Date: 1943
Original Format: poster
Creator: Henry Koerner, United States Office of War Information
Food is a Weapon: Don't Waste It!
Date: 1943
Original Format: poster
Creator: United States Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries
A Message About Food from the President of the United States
Date: 1946
Original Format: poster
Creator: Harry S. Truman, United States Department of Agriculture
Feed a Fighter: Eat Only What You Need
Date: 1918
Original Format: poster
Creator: Wallace Morgan, United States Food Administration
Food Will Win the War
Date: 1918
Original Format: poster
Creator: Charles Edward Chambers, United States Food Administration
Save Waste Fats
Date: 1942
Original Format: poster
Creator: War Production Board, United States Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Wartime Conservation Plan Correspondence, Anamerle Arant to Coworkers
Date: 1943-03-03
Original Format: correspondence
Creator: Anamerle Arant
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
Mobilization of Home Economics Workers for Food
Date: 1943
Original Format: newspaper article
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service