ECU Contributor Archives

Jul 17, 2009
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The Fugitive Slave Act Passed by, the Senate and House of Representatives September 12, 1850 & Approved by, President Millard Fillmore September 18, 1850

Source: The Fugitive Slave Act, East Carolina Manuscript Collection MB0001 (Miscellaneous Broadsides) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: In the 1840's the Underground Railroad was very busy due to the 1842...

Jul 10, 2009
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Letter from Harry S. Logan to his half-sister, Mrs. H.C. (Murdena Susan Logan) Kennerley

Source: Guide to the Harry Seymour Logan Papers, 1930-1936, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #111 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: We hear a lot of comparisons these days between the current...

Jul 03, 2009
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Tabitha Marie DeVisconti

Source: Guide to the Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, 1705-1983, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #480 Staff Person: Coleen Allen Description: This photograph depicts Tabitha Marie DeVisconti and her sister, Sue May...

Jun 26, 2009
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President Wright’s Chapel Talk Concerning the Budget

Source: University Archives, Chancellor's Office, Record Group CH1050, Series 2, Subseries 1, Box 1, Folder 6 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images below are from East Carolina Teachers College...

Jun 19, 2009
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Hoover Days Cart

Source: Guide to the Daily Reflector Negative Collection, ca. 1920-1967, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #741 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown above (1951) is of two men in...

Jun 12, 2009
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The Microscope

Source: The Construction of Timber, from Its Early Growth, Explained by the Microscope, Rare Book QK 475 H64 1770 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is generally credited...

Jun 05, 2009
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Pitt County Courthouse, ca. 1900

Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #275 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This postcard depicts the Pitt County Courthouse prior to its destruction by fire in 1910. Located...

May 29, 2009
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Basketball Star Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell & Coach Paul Jones (ca. 1977-1979)

Source: William H. Rowland Papers, 1861-2006, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #876.17.x Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description:  This is a photograph of Kinston, N.C.-born (1955) basketball star Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, who...

May 22, 2009
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East Carolina Railway and Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr.

Source: Henry Clark Bridgers, Jr., Papers, 1870-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #558 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr. (1876-1951) of Tarboro, N.C., was born into a railroading...

May 15, 2009
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The Model School

Source: University Archives, Call Number 50-20-1918 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: Also known as the practice school, the training school, and the laboratory school, the East Carolina Teachers Training School...