The Microscope
Source: The Construction of Timber, from Its Early Growth, Explained by the Microscope, Rare Book QK 475 H64 1770 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is generally credited...
The Ship’s Log
Pitt County Courthouse, ca. 1900
Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #275 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This postcard depicts the Pitt County Courthouse prior to its destruction by fire in 1910. Located...
Basketball Star Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell & Coach Paul Jones (ca. 1977-1979)
Source: William H. Rowland Papers, 1861-2006, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #876.17.x Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This is a photograph of Kinston, N.C.-born (1955) basketball star Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, who...
East Carolina Railway and Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr.
Source: Henry Clark Bridgers, Jr., Papers, 1870-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #558 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr. (1876-1951) of Tarboro, N.C., was born into a railroading...
The Model School
Source: University Archives, Call Number 50-20-1918 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: Also known as the practice school, the training school, and the laboratory school, the East Carolina Teachers Training School...
1993 Commencement
Source: University Archives Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: As the days lengthen and become even warmer, activity on campus reaches an annual peak. Faculty and students prepare for...
Josephus Daniels
Source: Elias Carr Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #160 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Josephus Daniels was born May 18, 1862. His was educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute and the...
North Carolina Textile Industry Items
Source: Herbert Floyd Seawell, Sr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #497; Alice Green Hoffman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #127 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: During the late nineteeth and...
Tax Receipts from the Government of the Confederate States
Source: Elias Carr Papers, 1856-1910, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #160 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The receipts shown here are from taxes paid to the Government of the Confederate States...
V-Mail Easter Greeting
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Saunders Family Collection, 1941-1945, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #964 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image that is shown is a V-mail Easter greeting dated...