Cruise of the Cosmos
Warning: This post contains graphic content that may be upsetting to some people. This post displays the Log Book of the Steamer “Cosmos” Trip from San Francisco, California to Ft....
Kristen Daniel Archives
A Society of Patriotic Ladies: A New Special Collections Exhibit
This year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Edenton Tea Party, an important display of female activism in eastern North Carolina. We hope you will join us in celebrating by...
The Legacy of the Lost Colony
Legacy of The Lost Colony is an exhibit that features a variety of objects and materials from Special Collections. These materials highlight how the story of the Lost Colony has...
North Carolina’s Most Notorious Prison Escapee – Otto Wood (1894-1930)
Involved in criminal activity from an early age, Wood learned to gamble, fight, and make bootleg whiskey from his famed McCoy-Hatfield relations in West Virginia. In 1923, he entered Central...
Harriet Jacobs: A Voice for the Enslaved
With the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, we are reminded of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery in the United States. Though the proclamation went into effect in 1863, roughly...
Midway Island Scenes & Memories, 1903-1918
Pictured are a fragment of a letter Rear Admiral Albert Parker Niblack wrote to his wife on their 15th wedding anniversary, 24 November 1918, and 6 photographs of Midway Island...
Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Lt. Niblack Anticipating the Spanish American War, April 7th, 1898
Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when he wrote this letter to Lt. Albert Parker Niblack, then serving as Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Rome, Italy....
New Exhibit Explores the History of Freshman Orientation at ECU
“A Pirate’s Life for Me” is a new exhibit located on the first floor in the main campus Joyner library. It was curated by Kristen Daniel and Shatiece Starks, and...
Digital Doubloons
Title: Digital Doubloons Ahoy, landlubbers! Digital Archivist, John Dunning, back one final time to spin a yarn about a piece of digital treasure we hoard here in Special Collections. A...
Captain James Cook Monument, Hawaii, ca. 1904-1905
When he took this picture of the Captain Cook Monument, sometime during 1904-1905, Lt. Commander Albert Parker Niblack was captain of the USS Iroquois (AT-46), a steam tug based at...