New Bern, North Carolina, 1908 Post Card
Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: New Bern was founded in 1710 and is North Carolina's second oldest town. This post card, bearing a 1908...
The Ship’s Log
U.S.S. South Dakota
USS South Dakota Special Collections Reference: VA 63 .S72 1972 The USS South Dakota was the first of a group of fast battleships built under 1939 fiscal year appropriations...
1918 Christmas Party
Source: The Minges Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1136 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This collection documents the Minges family's involvement in the manufacture of soft drinks, including Pepsi-Cola, in...
Wild Cat
George Willcox McIver was born on December 22, 1858, at Carthage, N.C., and died in 1947 at the age of eighty-nine. He was the son of Alexander McIver, a noted North Carolina educator, and Mary Ann Willcox. McIver was appointed to West Point in 1877 and graduated with the class of 1882. Upon graduation, he began a military career of forty years of active service including duty in the United States, Alaska, Cuba, France, and the Philippine Islands. McIver's military career began with service in the West (1883-1891) with the 7th U.S. Infantry. He was stationed at various forts, including Pembina, Fred Steele, Laramie, Logan, and Bridger. He was sent to Rock Springs, Wyoming (1885), along with other troops to put down civil unrest between Chinese and white miners. McIver's unit participated in the "Sioux Campaign" of 1890-1891 which culminated in the Battle of Wounded Knee. He served as a tactical officer at West Point (1891-1893); duty officer to Camp Pilot Butte, Montana (1893); and Regular Army officer with the California National Guard (1894), where he observed the civil unrest of the California Railroad Strikes. In 1898, McIver was reunited with the 7th U.S. Infantry, which was mobilized at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, where McIver's unit participated in the Battle of El Caney. From 1898-1900, McIver was stationed at Ford Brady, Michigan, and at Leech Lake Indian Agency in Walker, Minnesota. From 1900 to 1903, he was stationed at Nome and Fort St. Michael, Alaska. He was assigned to the Philippine Islands from 1903 until July 1905, when he returned to California as the Commandant of the U.S. military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. In 1907, he became the Commandant of the army's first musketry school at Monterey, California. In 1911, he began work on a revision of the Army Small Arms Firing Manual. McIver served a second tour of duty in the Philippines (1914) before becoming executive officer of the Militia Bureau of the War Department (1915). Before U.S. intervention in World War I, McIver was promoted to Brigadier General and took command of the 161st Brigade of the 81st (Wild Cat) Division which trained at Camp Jackson and Camp Sevier, South Carolina. This unit became incorporated into the American Expeditionary Force and participated in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. From 1919 until his retirement in 1922, McIver was stationed at Fort Pike, Arkansas, and Fort Slocum, New York. ...
First Graduation Ceremony
Source: University Archives, UA50-06-1010-01 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: The first graduation ceremony at East Carolina Teachers Training School occurred in May 1910. No degrees were awarded, but several students...
Couples Dancing at Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #275 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown is a postcard of a dance held in the Lumina Dancing Pavilion at...
Broadside Advertising UNC-Chapel Hill Baseball Game
Source: J. Bryan Grimes Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #54 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This broadside from the J. Bryan Grimes Papers was designed to attract spectators to a...
Menu from the Willoughby Beach Hotel
Source: Benjamin B. Winborne Papers, 1872-1930 #691.005 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s staff pick features a menu from the Willoughby Beach Hotel (Willoughby Beach, VA) dated July 15, 1905....
Baseball Has Come A Long Way At College
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The image shown is of an article titled, "Baseball Has Come Long Way At College" by Lloyd Whitfield. It was printed in...
Virginiae partiis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumq[ue] regionum nova description
Source: Virginiae partis australis, et Floridae partis orientalis, interjacentiumq[ue] regionum nova description, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Amsterdam, J. and C. Blaeu, 1640; Special Collections Map Collection #2.3 Staff Person: Ralph...