Appalachian State University Digital Collections

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- Elementary School Class, 1958, photo 4
- Students; Student Activities; Faculty;
- This image shows an elementary school class standing in a brick room drinking out of paper cups in front of vending machines. The room contains a Pepsi-Cola® machine, a Coca-Cola® machine, and a candy machine. The class is identified as a class...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Print Shop, photo 5
- Students; Student Activities; Publications;
- This image shows a student using a machine to print a publication in the Print Shop at Kerr Scott Hall, built 1961, at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in April 1971. A man can be seen observing in the background. The machine is...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Jacob's Ladder/Underground Railroad
- M Mueller is a self-taught quilter. He began quilting in Boone, in 2004, piecing on his grandmother's 1920s White Rotary sewing machine, which he still uses exclusively. He pieces on machine and quilts by hand. Though not a member of a guild, M's...
- Library Art Collection
- Staff, photocopying, photo 2
- Staff;
- This image shows a staff member making copies with a Xerox® machine in an office at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967) in June 1965. She can be seen placing a sheet of paper on the machine to be copied.
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Audio-Visual Center, John A. Pritchett, circa 1960, photo 3
- Faculty; Education; Library Science;
- This image shows John Alfred Pritchett, associate professor in the Department of Education, giving a speech on the Didak 501 teaching machine to faculty members at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967) in the 1960s. Pritchett can be seen...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Bookstore, first, vending machines
- Buildings; Students; Student Life;
- This image shows the snack bar in the College Bookstore, added in 1955, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). An unidentified man puts coins into a hot beverage vending machine on the left. Also seen are a gumball machine on stop of a...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Food Services, ice cream parlor, photo 2
- Staff; Students; Student Activities;
- This image shows the cashier area of the ice cream parlor in W. H. Plemmons Student Union, built 1967, at Appalachian State University (1967-current). A student can be seen with an employee. The sign on the register reads "Ice cream counter,...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Laundry Services, press
- Student Services;
- This image shows the press machine at the University Laundry at Appalachian State University (1967-current). Appalachian State first offered school laundry services to women only in 1914-1915, before which Mondays were designated laundry day and no...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Health Services, 1957, polio vaccines, photo 3
- Medical Care; Students; Staff;
- This image shows a woman being given a polio vaccine on March 8, 1957 in Broome-Kirk Gymnasium, built 1955, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). Vaccinations were administered by Nurse Mary S. Shook, Nina Martin, and Nancy Thomas....
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Appalachian High School, clubs, photo 7
- Students; Student Activities; High School Students; Clubs;
- This image shows members of an unidentified student organization at Appalachian High School (1938-1965) standing in a group while a boy in the middle holds what is possibly a mimeograph machine with the drum exposed, in a student workroom in...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Typing Class, circa 1955, photo 1
- Students; Student Activities; Business Education;
- This image shows a student typing numbers from a booklet into an adding machine during a class taught by James T. Thompson, head of the Department of Business Education, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). He taught business...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Typing Class, circa 1955, photo 7
- Students; Student Activities; Business Education;
- This image shows a student typing numbers from a large index card to her right on an adding machine during a class taught by James T. Thompson, head of the Department of Business Education, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). He...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Typing Class, circa 1955, photo 5
- Students; Student Activities; Business Education;
- This image shows a student typing numbers from a large index card on an adding machine during a class taught by James T. Thompson, head of the Department of Business Education, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). A woman can be seen...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Mechanical Class, circa 1955, photo 3
- Mathematics; Students; Student Activities; Faculty;
- This image shows a group of students and Dr. J. T. Wright observing as a man works on a machine at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). Dr. Wright is seen second from the left. The Department of Mathematics and Physics included not only...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Mechanical Class, circa 1955, photo 2
- Mathematics; Students; Student Activities; Faculty;
- This image shows three students in the Mathematics Department observing a man working a linotype machine at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). The Department of Mathematics and Physics included not only math courses, but courses on...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Staff, circa 1955
- Staff;
- This image shows a secretary sitting at a desk in front of a typewriter in an office at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967). An adding machine is behind her, resting on a table holding slips of paper in small boxes, and a clock, a scale,...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Accounting, photo 2
- Students; Student Activities; Accounting;
- This image shows a student typing figures into an adding machine for an accounting class taught in the Department of Accounting in the College of Business at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in the 1970s. The College of Business was...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Accounting, photo 1
- Students; Student Activities; Accounting;
- This image shows a student typing figures into an adding machine for an accounting class taught in the Department of Accounting in the College of Business at Appalachian State University (1967-current) in the 1970s. The College of Business was...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Chemistry, NMR, photo 1
- Faculty; Chemistry;
- This image shows Professor D. P. Olander sitting on a chair adjusting settings on a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) machine, used to study chemical structures, in the Department of Chemistry at Appalachian State University (1967-current) during...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection
- Chemistry, NMR, photo 2
- Faculty; Chemistry;
- This image shows the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) machine in the Department of Chemistry at Appalachian State University (1967-current) during the mid-1970s. NMR spectroscopy was used to study the chemical structure of molecules. The Department...
- Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Collection