ECU Contributor Archives

Mar 20, 2012
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Tobacco Advertising in China

Source: James N. Joyner Papers (Manuscript Collection #429) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James N. Joyner (1888-1972), attended the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1910. He was employed ...

Mar 14, 2012
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Silver Frosted Trees

Source: Wilbur Kenneth Bragg Collection, #1100.1.c Description: Image of trees covered with frost taken around Christmastime, 1944 near an American Army camp named Camp Pinetree located in High Wycombe, England....

Feb 29, 2012
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American Forces Occupy Veracruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914

Source: John B. Green Collection #380.1.a Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This early combat photograph taken by an American sailor shows the first of approximately 2,300 sailors and marines from...

Feb 21, 2012
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Main Street in Windsor, N.C., 1910

Source:  Grady T. Davis, Sr. Papers (Manuscript Collection #1187) Staff Person:  Martha Elmore Description:  This photograph of Main Street, looking north, in Windsor, N.C., is one of eight photographs (size 8"...

Feb 15, 2012
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George Washington Tree

Source:  University Archives 55-01-4812 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: Tree planting celebration at East Carolina Teachers College in honor of George Washington.  The tree planting occurred on the  bicentennial of...

Feb 08, 2012
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Rebel Prisoners being brought to Headquarters, Petersburg, 1865

                          Source: Frances W. Knowles Papers, #164, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Member: Ralph Scott   The Francis...

Feb 01, 2012
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William Woods Holden Election Handbill

Source: Benjamin B. Winborne Papers #691-005, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s staff pick features an original handbill (circa 1868) promoting the election of William Woods...

Jan 25, 2012
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Gallows and Cemetery at Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

Source: Alvin Mewborn Papers (Manuscript Collection #1159) Staff Person: Maury York Description: Between 1940 and 1945, Nazi Germany developed a large complex of concentration camps in the vicinity of Mauthausen...

Jan 17, 2012
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The Lost Children a poem by Randall Jarrell

  Source: #1169.5 Wright Collection/ Randall Jarrell Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin  Description:  The Randall Jarrell Papers are dated 1913 to 1989. The manuscript collection includes...

Jan 11, 2012
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Tombstones in Old Town Cemetery

Source: Colbert P. Howell Collection(#989) Colbert Howell, a resident of Murfreesboro, NC, shot a series of photographs of places in and around Murfreesboro which had historical significance. The photographs were...