The Ship’s Log

Photograph of Confederate veterans and daughter

Source: Taft Family Papers #784, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:   Today’s staff pick features an undated photograph (left to right) of Major Orren Randolph Smith, his daughter...

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 ...

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....

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...

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"...

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...

Rebel Prisoners being brought to Headquarters, Petersburg, 1865

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

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...

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...

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...