The Ship’s Log

Use of Closed Circuit TV Marks the Beginning of ECU’s Technological Progress

Source: University Archives     Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: In 2008, East Carolina University celebrates the Golden Anniversary of homecoming with our Golden Class: the graduates of...

U. S. Coast Guard Orientation for Potential Recruits

Source: U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records Collection, 1939-1997 East Carolina Manuscript Collection #559 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is well known for providing...

ECU’s Historic Relationship with the Railroad

Source: University Archives     Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: The first years of East Carolina University's history are in many ways tied to the railroad. The Atlantic Coastline Railroad...

Letter of Walter Clark to Dr. Charles O’Hagan Laughinghouse

Source: Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #267 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse (1871-1930), a native of Pitt County, North Carolina, worked as a physician...

Lusty Wind For Carolina

Source: Lusty Wind For CarolinaJoyner Rare PS3511 L449 L8 1944b Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Minna Towner Englis [Inglis?] Clark Fletcher (1879-1969), known to readers of her books as Inglis...

John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster, circa 1960

Source: Joseph F. and Lala Carr Steelman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #924 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's staff pick is a John F. Kennedy campaign poster (circa 1960)...

Postcards of President & Mrs. William H. Taft in Inauguration Parade & Departure of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, March 4, 1909

Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These postcard images depict the departure of President Theodore Roosevelt's carriage from the White House...

William S. W. Ruschenberger, Journal (1848)

Source: William S. W. Ruschenberger Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #629 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: William S. W. Ruschenberger served in the U.S. Medical Corps from 1826 until 1869....

Student Handbook

Source: University Archives, E.C. 378.756 Ea771k 1926-34 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images below are from the 1926-1927 Hand Book of East Carolina Teachers College. Of particular interest in...

Cromwell Graveyard

Source: Jan Sellers Coward Collection, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #1112 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The photograph shown above, taken probably in the 1960s by Jan Sellers Coward, is...