University Archives photograph collection. College of Textiles photographs, 1919-1991 [graphic]

North Carolina State University. University Archives.

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North Carolina State University was established in 1887 as the North Carolina College for Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The College opened in 1889 with one building - the current Holladay Hall - six faculty, and courses in the agricultural and mechanical arts, adding a curriculum in applied science in 1893. By the turn of the century the College had grown to some half dozen buildings, about 300 students, and had begun to diversify its curricula. In 1931 the College greatly reworked its curricul...

Grover, Elliot B. (Elliot Brown), 1906-1997

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Massachusetts native Elliot Brown Grover (1906-1997) joined the North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) faculty in 1944 as the head of the Yarn Manufacturing Department in the School of Textiles. In 1959, School of Textiles Dean Malcolm E. Campbell appointed Grover the head of the school's new Department of Textile Technology. Grover received an honorary fellowship from the Textile Institute in Manchester, England, the organization's highest honor, in 1962. He author...

Dunlap, George H. 1902-1969.

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Shinn, William E. (William Edward), 1900-1995

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William Edward Shinn (1900-1995) received a BS in Textiles from North Carolina State College (University) in 1924, and later that year organized and taught the first knitting course offered by NC State. Shinn received an MS in Textiles from NC State in 1929, and taught course in knitting technology at Clemson University from 1929 to 1935, and then at NC from 1935 to 1969. In 1942, Shinn was promoted to Head of the Department of Knitting Technology at NC State. Shinn had numerous publications dur...

Textile Exposition and Style Show.

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Campbell, Malcolm E. (Malcolm Eugene), 1902-1978

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Malcolm Eugene Campbell was born January 25th, 1902, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Textiles School at New Bedford Institute of Technology in 1922, and went on to teach textiles engineering at Clemson University, where he received his bachelor's degree. Campbell worked for the United States Department of Agriculture as a cotton technologist in cotton spinning and fiber research for 17 years before his appointment as Dean of the School of Textiles at North Carolina State Col...

North Carolina State University

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Currently, there are 24 University Standing Committees. Members of each of the University Standing Committees are appointed by the chancellor at the beginning of each academic year. The Committee on Committees provides the chancellor with recommendations concerning the composition and charge for each committee, its chair, and its faculty, staff, and student members. These recommendations are in part based on voluntary expressed preferences, on a general principle of rotation, and, whenever appro...

Chaney, D. W.

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Rutherford, Henry A.

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North Carolina State University. College of Textiles

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The College of Textiles at North Carolina State University began classes in the fall of 1899, primarily due to Daniel Tompkins's interest in having a textile program at what was then the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. By 1901 construction began on Tompkins Hall, the first textile building at NC State. The college eventually needed more space for students and equipment so in 1940 the college moved to Nelson Hall on the western fringes of campus. By January 1991 the colle...

Nelson, Thomas, 1872-

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Thomas Nelson (1872-1953) worked as educator, administrator, and textile technologist. He served the Textiles Department at North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) from 1901 to 1949, originally as an instructor, then Head of the Textiles Department, and later as the first Dean of the School of Textiles. From the description of Thomas Nelson papers, 1877-1954 [manuscript]. (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 466878476 ...

Hamby, Dame S. 1920-

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