This is really neat to check out. A lot of cool old photos of campus and events around campus on there. Currently a picture of Reynolds Coliseum from 1950-something is my wallpaper.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/universityarchives/historicalstate/campustown.html

6/27/2008 8:09:18 PM

there's a book of similar photographs i've seen at b&n; it's quite interesting--runs about $15

6/27/2008 8:14:39 PM

there's a couple of books

i've posted the titles in some of the old threads...probably in the one about the old orphanage off of old avent ferry road... i'll try and dig them up

6/27/2008 8:24:53 PM

^I've got one like that and it was a pretty good christmas present for someone who didnt know me all that well. Most of the pics in it come from the NCSU archives like in the link above but I'd say about 20% are from private donors.

There's some amazing shit I never knew about or used to be there in both the link and the book. I loved those steam tunnels on main campus, so much stuff that people never knew about. Just like the incoming classes will never have personally seen the old Riddick Stadium that was here when I came. Makes me feel all old and shit.

North Carolina State University
The Campus History Series
Lynn Salsi and Burke Salsi Jr.
ISBN 0-7385-1816-6
Published by Arcadia

6/27/2008 8:26:40 PM

i thought this was posted but i searched and couldn't find the thread

6/27/2008 8:31:54 PM

there's def been something similar

6/27/2008 8:32:37 PM

there were a couple of threads

one was the orphanage thread... there's probably a bunch of stuff tucked away in the hillsborough st threads... and there was the thread where they took old pics of campus and overlayed them with a transparency slider against the modern pics

6/27/2008 8:38:46 PM

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there's tidbits here in there in all of these

6/27/2008 8:43:20 PM

Yeah that Pyro thread was the only one I remembered.

6/27/2008 8:50:43 PM

Pyro's website doesn't work anymore

6/27/2008 9:38:52 PM

http://www.dejaviews.org/projects/ncsu/thenandnow/index.html


A couple more here:
http://www.dejaviews.org/projects/raleigh/thenandnow/

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The orphanage mentioned above:



I have hundreds more photos, just no time to edit or properly narrate them.

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6/28/2008 12:15:16 AM

The University Archives is totally awesome, I spent half a semester in there doing research. It was when they were doing construction in the east wing, so it was a bit of a mess. Tons of books, pictures, newspapers, etc. Definitely something to check out if you're interested in the history of State or Raleigh.

6/28/2008 1:02:53 AM

best ernie post ever...or at least in the top 10

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6/28/2008 1:14:08 AM

I remember that overlay image thread that pyro did. I wish we could find that image...kinda a tww historical original

6/28/2008 11:22:24 AM

Archives is fun and all, but the department has fallen to shit.

6/28/2008 3:22:16 PM

What's the deal with the steam tunnels? I've never heard of this before.

6/29/2008 12:23:30 AM

man those pics are awesome

6/29/2008 12:53:13 AM