The “Maine”
Source: The "Maine"; an account of her destruction in Havana Harbor, Joyner Rare E 721.6 S57 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: USS Maine, a 6682-ton second-class battleship, was built at...
The Ship’s Log
David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915
Source: David Balcombe Papers, East Carolina Manuscipt Collection Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: These 6 black and white photographs are from the David Balcombe Papers (Manuscript Collection #1140.1.i). They were...
Students’ gardens at East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1914
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: In his 1910 report to the Board of Trustees, the president of East Carolina Teachers Training School, Robert Wright, requested land for...
National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C.
Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Maury York Description: National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C. This post card depicts the National Bank Building, which was...
Americans Flee Mexico To Texas to avoid Attack by Revolutionaries, November 1913
Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: John Augustus "Lorenzo" DeVisconti (August 10, 1836-January 13, 1918) was born in northern Italy to...
Goetzinger Letter
Source: Getsinger Family Papers, 1828-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #172 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The Getsinger Family Papers consist of correspondence and other records pertaining to the Mexican War,...
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Concert Daily Reflector Negative Collection#741
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's staff pick shows a slice of life in Greenville, North Carolina, entertainment nearly fifty...
Valentine’s Day Postcards
Source: Gracie Fulk Collection, 1909-1925, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #938 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images shown below are Valentine's Day postcards received by Gracie Fulk in 1924....
Edward R. Murrow Delivering 1963 Commencement Speech
Source: University Archives, UW0000:2:14:a:3 Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: As the spring semester advances, graduation may seem in the distant future, but in about 12 weeks students will...
USS LACKAWANNA Cabinet Card (1882)
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Albert Parker Niblack Collection, 1876-1942; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1080 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This 1882 cabinet card shows portraits of 17 officers inset...