App State Special Collections Research Center

Astronomy amidst the mountains and trees! This photo from the 1970s captures the Rankin Science Building on the @AppState campus. The dome of the building's astronomical observatory is visible behind a stand of birch trees. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesScience

This image shows the first attempt to photograph the moon at Rankin Science Observatory by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Appalachian State University on July 15, 1964. #AppStateUniversityLibraries #ArchivesScience #ArchivesHashtagParty

An @AppState student in a laboratory classroom in the newly-completed Rankin Science Building at Appalachian State Teachers College, early 1960s. She can be seen pouring a liquid from a beaker into a tube. #AppStateUniversityLibraries #ArchivesScience #ArchivesHashtagParty

In this 1958 photo, a student at what was then Appalachian State Teachers College works on a laboratory project for the Microtechnique course. @AppState #AppStateUniversityLibraries #ArchivesScience #ArchivesHashtagParty

Read about recent additions to the Appalachian Collection's archives here: tinyurl.com/y5djsz6p

Yes, this happened in #Appalachia! Check out the German Prisoner of War Photograph Album from Hot Springs, NC, in our collections: tinyurl.com/yn67nxy2

This large collage contains photographs of various indoor and outdoor activities at Camp Yonahlossee (Blowing Rock, N.C.) as well as group portraits and photographs of camp founders, Dr. Adam Perry and Margaret Kephart. One photograph is marked "1940."

A 1974 view of Winkler Residence Hall on the @AppState campus, demolished 2014. The dorm was part of the Stadium Heights Community of residence halls, formerly located between Eggers and Frank Residence Halls #AppStateNostalgia #DormLife

This photo from the summer of 1977 captures Cannon Residence Hall on the @AppState campus with seasonal blooms in the foreground. A television antenna sprouting from the roof provided entertainment in the days before online streaming. #DormLife @AppStateNostalgia

Happy #MarbledMonday! These cool endpapers are from A.G. Bradley's The Fight with France for North America (1900). Part of the Appalachian Collection's rare book collection. #marbledpaper #rarebooks #specialcollections

An audio clip of folklorist and @AppState professor Dr. Cratis Williams singing "Hain't Got No Honey Baby Now," recorded in 1943. tinyurl.com/HaintGotNo #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty

This image, "Two Men with Woman Holding Baby in Automobile," is from the Shull's Mill Papers collection, which documents a small farming community and stopping place on the toll road from Valle Crucis to Blowing Rock. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty

What a cutie! Meet a smiling 8 month old Robert Knox, a member of the Worth family of Ashe County, North Carolina. From the David Worth Family Papers. #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesBabies #Appalachia

This illustration by artist Symeon Shimin from the 1973 publication "The Knee-Baby" by author Mary Jarrell is part of the Beulah Campbell Collection of Children's literature and art at the @AppStateSCRC. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty

Postcard of Darius Sebastian Hampton of Watauga County, NC, as a baby. From the Jesse Amos Hampton Family Photographs collection @AppStateSCRC. Darius was born June 2, 1914 and died in 1983 at age 68. #ArchivesBabies #ArchivesHashtagParty

@newbraunfelscs A commemorative postage stamp? (60th anniversary of Arbor Day)?

What do you think this artifact is? Write your answers in the comment section below. The answer will be posted on Friday a.k.a Arbor Day. #WhatIsItWednesday #whatisitwednesdays

Answer: It is a spittoon!

What is it? Made from brass and branded with the Union Pacific Railroad logo, this item was considered a hygienic device meant to keep floors and sidewalks clean. From the Thomas Reese Railroad and Printing collection. #whatisitwednesday #railroadhistory #unionpacificrr

From 35 years ago this week: a poster from the first event of what was to become #MerleFest.

Greetings "live" from #MerleFest from the @AppStateSCRC! Come see our booth at the festival this weekend introducing the MerleFest Archives.