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...
The Ship’s Log
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...
The Little Mint
Source: The Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This image from the Daily Reflector Negative Collection is of a drive-in restaurant called...
White’s Theatre
Source: Junius D. Grimes Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #571 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This letter from the Junius D. Grimes Papers depicts White's Theatre located on Fifth Street...
WWII Prisoner of War Camp, Williamston, N.C., 1943-1945
Source: Francis M. Manning Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #488 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: By 1943, the U.S. government had thousands of Italian and German prisoners who were in...
UN Walkout
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: On Friday, April 7, 1967, eight delegates from North Carolina College at Durham (now North Carolina Central University) and Florida A&M University,...