Kitty Hawk
Source: Misc. Photograph Collection (East Carolina Manuscript Collection) Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: The USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) was laid down by the New York Ship Building Corporation in Camden,...
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Vacationing on the Water at Beaufort, N.C., in 1911
Source: Frank M. Wooten, Jr., Papers (Manuscript Collection #126) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These two postcards were sent from Beaufort, N.C., in July of 1911 to Mrs. Julia Wooten...
Letter from President Richard Nixon
Source: Robert Morgan Papers (#237) East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Letter from President Richard Nixon thanking Robert Morgan, North Carolina Attorney General, for his support of...
Rough on Rats Advertising Card
Source: Laupus Health Sciences History Collection Staff Person: Matt Reynolds Description: This late 19th Century advertising card for E.S. Wells Rough on Rats vermin extermination powder depicts a peeved family...
Talking Trash Can in Downtown Greenville
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The City of Greenville in 1958 used talking trash cans to encourage residents to keep streets and...
Grifton Clothing Company
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection (Manuscript Collection #0741) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This image was taken to highlight a time of tremendous growth in the City of Grifton,...
Nursing staff out on the Yukon
Source: Lula M. Disosway Papers, 1897-1977 (E C Manuscript collection #447) Staff Member: Nanette Hardison Lula Disosway was a native North Carolinian (born in New Bern) who became both a...
Esther, The Beautiful Queen
Source: Victoria Louise Pendleton Memoir (Manuscript Collection #17.1.b) Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo The program above, advertising a performance of Esther, The Beautiful Queen, to be presented at the Warrenton, North...
Welcome to Falkland-Bruce School
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection # 741.14.e.19 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The image is of the principal of the school, [Gaston Monk, Sr.?] who is standing next...
Letter Documenting Use of Labor from Tarboro, N.C., WWII Prisoner of War Camp
Source: E. C. Winslow Records (Manuscript Collection #1174) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: About 3000 Italian prisoners of war were sent to Camp Butner, just outside of Durham, N.C., in...