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 (25 total)
We'll Have Lots to Eat this Winter, Won't We Mother?
Date: 1943
Original Format: poster
Creator: Alfred Parker, Office of War Information
North Carolina Fights With Extra Food
Date: 1943-11
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
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
Where Our Men Are Fighting, Our Food Is Fighting
Date: 1943
Original Format: poster
Creator: United States Office of War Information
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
Save Waste Fats
Date: 1942
Original Format: poster
Creator: War Production Board, United States Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Drying Foods for Victory Meals
Date: 1942
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: United States Department of Agriculture
Ways of Using 48 Points
Date: ca. 1942-1945
Original Format: report
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Wartime Conservation Plan Correspondence, Anamerle Arant to Coworkers
Date: 1943-03-03
Original Format: correspondence
Creator: Anamerle Arant
Winning Exhibit at the State College Student Agriculture Fair
Date: 1940-10
Original Format: photograph
Creator: Unknown
4-H Mobilization Week
Date: 1942-12
Original Format: report
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
4-H Mobilization for Victory Report
Date: 1942-12
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Join the 4-H Club in the Food for Freedom Fight
Date: ca. 1944
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Home Food Supply for Victory: Role Call for all Rural Women in the United States
Date: 1943-02-25
Original Format: correspondence
Creator: Estelle Smith, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Mobilization of Home Economics Workers for Food
Date: 1943
Original Format: newspaper article
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
United We Serve
Date: 1943-11-19
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Fall Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Plan Your Time for Victory
Date: 1942-08
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Pauline E. Gordon and Elizabeth Williams, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
To the Defense of America
Date: 1942-01
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
More Meat for Victory
Date: 1942
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Eat Three Meals a Day the Victory Way
Date: 1943-02
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Mary E. Thomas and Sallie B. Venters, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service