Mary Jordan White 1859-1909
Source: Belvidere Academy Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #4 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This small pamphlet details the life and death of Mary Jordan White, a student, teacher, and...
The Ship’s Log
Dueling in New Bern, N.C. 1822-1872
Source: Guide to the Stephen F. Miller Memoir, 1872, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #371 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The images shown below are of the front cover and two...
Women’s 1915 Basketball Team
Source: University Archives, Call Number 55-01-0082 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: Between 1909 and 1932, the only organized sports teams at East Carolina Teachers College were women's teams. Women's basketball...
1918 Flu Pandemic nickname “Spanish Flu”, March 1918 to June 1920
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Health conditions at ECTTC are one of the major topics mentioned in the Board of Trustees minutes from 1918. There were 141...
Remembering The Flood of the Century
Source: University Archives Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: Autumn on campus is a time of happy reunions among those returning, and soon many are engaged in the various...
Lucy Cherry Crisp
Source: Lucy Cherry Crisp Papers, 1794-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #154 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Lucy Cherry Crisp (1899-1977), a native of Edgecombe County, N.C., studied music at the...
1956 GMC Work Trucks Foldout Brochure Poster
Source: Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records, 1943-1998, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #758 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: General Motors Corporation (GMC) has flourished throughout much of its history as a...
Football Practice Now Underway
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: With the start of the 77th football season for East Carolina University we can take a look back at how it all...
S.S. Utah – A Banned Book
Source: S.S. Utah, Hoover PS 3531.E2967 S1 1933 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Mike Pell's S.S. Utah is an example of the genre of proletarian fiction. Proletarian fiction written in...
Bryan Grimes
Source: Thomas Sparrow Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Bryan Grimes (2 Nov. 1828-14 Aug. 1880), the noted Eastern North Carolina planter and civil war...