A ship’s monkey?
This week's staff pick is from the Clarence Leroy Shuping Papers collection (Manuscript Collection #553). One of the donors of this collection, Hampton Shuping, is also featured prominently in the...
March 2011 Archives
At the Copa…
This photograph features Chancellor Leo Jenkins along with Jack Minges and Waightstill H. “Booger” Scales at the famed Copacabana Club in New York City. Taken in October of 1963, the...
Advertising Pamphlet for Keeley Institute, Greensboro, N.C.
Source: Edward Merritt McEachern, Jr., Collection #25.2.c Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: The Keeley Institute in Greensboro, N.C., was established circa 1891 and it survived until 1961. From 1906 on...
John L. Porter Naval Architectural Notebook
Source: John Luke Porter Papers (#850) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: John L. Porter (1813-1893) constructed naval ships in Portsmouth, Virginia, prior to the Civil War. After the secession of...