ECU Contributor Archives

May 08, 2009
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1993 Commencement

Source: University Archives Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: As the days lengthen and become even warmer, activity on campus reaches an annual peak. Faculty and students prepare for...

May 01, 2009
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Josephus Daniels

Source: Elias Carr Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #160 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Josephus Daniels was born May 18, 1862. His was educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute and the...

Apr 24, 2009
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North Carolina Textile Industry Items

Source: Herbert Floyd Seawell, Sr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #497; Alice Green Hoffman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #127 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: During the late nineteeth and...

Apr 17, 2009
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Tax Receipts from the Government of the Confederate States

Source: Elias Carr Papers, 1856-1910, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #160 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The receipts shown here are from taxes paid to the Government of the Confederate States...

Apr 09, 2009
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V-Mail Easter Greeting

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Saunders Family Collection, 1941-1945, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #964 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image that is shown is a V-mail Easter greeting dated...

Apr 03, 2009
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The “Maine”

Source: The "Maine"; an account of her destruction in Havana Harbor, Joyner Rare E 721.6 S57 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: USS Maine, a 6682-ton second-class battleship, was built at...

Mar 27, 2009
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David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915

Source: David Balcombe Papers, East Carolina Manuscipt Collection Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: These 6 black and white photographs are from the David Balcombe Papers (Manuscript Collection #1140.1.i). They were...

Mar 20, 2009
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Students’ gardens at East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1914

Source: University Archives Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: In his 1910 report to the Board of Trustees, the president of East Carolina Teachers Training School, Robert Wright, requested land for...

Mar 13, 2009
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National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C.

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Maury York Description: National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C. This post card depicts the National Bank Building, which was...

Mar 06, 2009
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Americans Flee Mexico To Texas to avoid Attack by Revolutionaries, November 1913

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: John Augustus "Lorenzo" DeVisconti (August 10, 1836-January 13, 1918) was born in northern Italy to...