The Ship’s Log

Jun 12, 2012

A letter regarding the 1969 film TORA! TORA! TORA!.

Source: Walter L. Small, Jr., Papers, Manuscript Collection #731.1.a Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: A letter to Rear Admiral Walter L. Small, Jr., USN (Ret.) from film producer Elmo Williams...

Jun 05, 2012

Evangelical Baptist Mission Poster

Source: Willard and Daisy Rowe Papers, Manuscript Collection #1181 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Willard and Daisy Rowe of Franklin County, North Carolina, established the Evangelical Baptist Mission in 1960....

May 29, 2012

Native Girl in Wedding Dress

Source: George Leland Dyer Papers, #340 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This image from the George Leland Dyer Papers is of a Sumay girl, a native of the Mariana Islands...

May 22, 2012

Farmer’s Day

Source:  University Archives 55-01-1927 Staff Person:  Kacy Guill Description:  John Messick, president of East Carolina College, is riding in a Chevy Bel Air in the Farmville, North Carolina Farmer's Day...

May 15, 2012

World’s Fastest Typist

Source: University Archives UA55-01-8226 Staff Person: Arthur Carlson Description: This picture from the University Archives features Cortez W. Peters, Sr who held the world record as the World's Fastest Typist...

May 02, 2012

Farewell to China

Source: James N. Joyner Papers (#429), East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James Noah Joyner was born in 1888. He attended the University of North Carolina, and...

Apr 25, 2012

Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, ca. 1876

Source: Elihu A. White Papers, #14.11.a (P-14/6) Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This photograph of Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia dates from the 1870s.  It's name derives from the fact that it...

Apr 17, 2012

Concrete River Steamers of World War I, ca. 1921

Source: John B. Green Collection #380.2.b Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Seen in the photograph above are four, unnamed, concrete-hulled river steamers at the Newport Shipping Corporation shipyard, in New...

Apr 11, 2012

College View Neighborhood in the 1950s

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: A family works together in 1957 to maintain the appearance of the yard of their home in the...

Apr 03, 2012

Russian Phrase Book

4 April 2012 Source: Special Collections Reference Collection PG2689 .U56 1943 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: This restricted World War II publication by the War Department "contains the Russian words...