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 (249 total)
Food Preservation for the Farm Home
Date: ca. 1935
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Negro Boys and Girls 4-H Short Course
Date: 1937
Original Format: report
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Freezing Foods for the Home
Date: 1947
Original Format: memorandum
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Summary of Home Demonstration Work in North Carolina
Date: 1917
Original Format: report
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Foods Produced, Conserved and Used at Home
Date: 1964
Original Format: memorandum
Creator: Minne Miller Brown
A Study of North Carolina Negro Homemakers, A Brief History
Date: 1964
Original Format: report
Creator: Minne Miller Brown
Home Demonstration Projects for Girls and Women
Date: 1936
Original Format: report
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Short Report of Twenty-Five Years of Home Demonstration
Date: 1936
Original Format: report
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Organization of Home Demonstration Work
Date: 1929
Original Format: report
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Statistics of Negro Home Demonstration Agents
Date: 1929
Original Format: report
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Some Stories of How Farm Women are Trying to Beat the Boll Weevil by Adding to the Family Income
Date: 1921
Original Format: pamphlet
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Statistics of Negro Home Demonstration Agents
Date: 1929
Original Format: report
Creator: Jane S. McKimmon
Negro 4-H Club Mirror
Date: 1939
Original Format: newsletter
Creator: North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service
Little Children Need Food Between Meals
Date: 1920s
Original Format: photograph
Creator: United States Department of Agriculture
