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 (11 total)
A Mark of Wholesome Meat
Date: 1964
Original Format: film
Creator: United States Department of Agriculture, Motion Picture Service
Research and the Poultry Industry
Date: 1960s
Original Format: report
Creator: Food Science and Processing Department, 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
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
Freezing Foods for the Home
Date: 1947
Original Format: memorandum
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Home Demonstration Club Members Grade and Pack Poultry and Other Products for Sale by Parcel Post and Express Shipments
Date: 1920s
Original Format: photograph
Creator: Unknown
Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Redfearn Inspecting Club Member Hazel Tucker's Flock of White Orpingtons, Anson County, NC
Date: 1924-05-24
Original Format: photograph
Creator: G. W. Ackerman
More Meat for Victory
Date: 1942
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service