Petticoat Pilots Meeting
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection (Manuscript Collection #741) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: For decades women faced tremendous hurdles in their desire to become pilots. In the early years they...
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Texaco Service Station
Source: Minges Collection (Manuscript Collection #1136) Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Tripp Texaco Service Station, U.S. Hwy 13, Greenville, NC with Pepsi-Cola bottle outdoor display case, circa 1950s-1960s.
Plan for 7′ 9 Pram
Source: Hagerty Company Collections (EC Manuscript Collection # 1084 Os1) Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: The Douglas Fir Plywood Association founded in 1933 in Tacoma, Washington was one of many...
![Feb 14, 2014Kevin Syers Military Training in North Carolina Public Schools 1853 Bradley School House, Sept. 28 / [1853] Mr. Edward P. Smith “Dear Brother” Your last and first favor were read nearly at the same time. One lay in the office or somewhere nearly two months. I was glad to hear from you (for to tell you the truth I thought that you never would write to me by your writing to Frank and never to me) and to hear that you were well. You found us all well and I am in hopes this may find you the same. Your No. 1 One I have lost. I had [it] at the door examining it and drop [sic] it. I looked for it I don’t know how long and Ann too but we could not find it, but in looking for it I found a shilling so I take it for granted that it was silver ore. Send me some of the gold ore and I will try to be more carefull [sic] of it. I am teaching school yet, and has some right-fine times every Friday. All my schollars [sic] speak on that day and I muster all the Boys and I have the drum and fife, too. The smaller boys have wooden guns and the larger real ones. Frank was here last week and see [sic] me drill them. He says that they beat his company. Some Fridays there is some 25 or thirty people to hear them speak and to see them muster and lots of girls among them. I write this during recess and have no time to collect my thoughts so you must excuse this short letter. I saw Pa at court. They were all well. We all Am. Mother, Peter and John send our love and believe me I am, as ever your [Loving] Brother, L. H. Smith. Source: L. H. Smith Papers #23.1.a.1...](https://iiif.lib.ecu.edu/Cantaloupe-3.4.2/iiif/2/00027455_0001.jp2/full/1000,1620/0/default.jpg){kind=link}
Military Training in North Carolina Public Schools 1853
Bradley School House, Sept. 28 / [1853] Mr. Edward P. Smith “Dear Brother” Your last and first favor were read nearly at the same time. One lay in the office or somewhere nearly two months. I was glad to hear from you (for to tell you the truth I thought that you never would write to me by your writing to Frank and never to me) and to hear that you were well. You found us all well and I am in hopes this may find you the same. Your No. 1 One I have lost. I had [it] at the door examining it and drop [sic] it. I looked for it I don’t know how long and Ann too but we could not find it, but in looking for it I found a shilling so I take it for granted that it was silver ore. Send me some of the gold ore and I will try to be more carefull [sic] of it. I am teaching school yet, and has some right-fine times every Friday. All my schollars [sic] speak on that day and I muster all the Boys and I have the drum and fife, too. The smaller boys have wooden guns and the larger real ones. Frank was here last week and see [sic] me drill them. He says that they beat his company. Some Fridays there is some 25 or thirty people to hear them speak and to see them muster and lots of girls among them. I write this during recess and have no time to collect my thoughts so you must excuse this short letter. I saw Pa at court. They were all well. We all Am. Mother, Peter and John send our love and believe me I am, as ever your [Loving] Brother, L. H. Smith. Source: L. H. Smith Papers #23.1.a.1...
USS Sarda (SS488)
Source: USS Sarda entering Havana, Cuba Call Number: 818.os1.1 Staff Person: Ken Harbit Description: USS Sarda (SS-488), was a Tench-class submarine. Financed by bonds purchased by the residents of Lynn,...
Insight from an Englishman
Source: Jerome R. Worsley Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1214 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison This page is from a piece of correspondence (June 27, 1953) that is part of the...
1706 Van der Aa Map of North Carolina
Source: Zee en Land togten der Franszen Geaan na,en in't Americaans Gewest van Florida (MC 49) Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: This 1706 map of the Carolinas and Florida drawn...
“Memories of Two Years (almost) before the Mast”
Source: Ronald Vaughn Papers (Manuscript Collection #658) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Ronald Vaughn of Brownwood, TX, enlisted in the Navy with his twin brother Donald (January 1944). He served...
Honoring Our Past
Source: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/293.1 Postcard of the U.S.S. North Carolina. Title from historical note on verso. "U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship Commission." Numbered P57112. Date approximated. Identifier: 318.2.c.317 Staff Person: Ken Harbit Description:...
Photo of General Eisenhower
Source: Jerome R. Worsley Papers (Manuscript Collection #1214) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Jerome R. Worsley, a Bethel, N.C., native and 1949 graduate of East Carolina Teachers College, served in...