The Ship’s Log

Oct 24, 2008
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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...

Oct 17, 2008
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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...

Oct 10, 2008
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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)...

Oct 03, 2008
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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...

Sep 26, 2008
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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....

Sep 19, 2008
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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...

Sep 12, 2008
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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...

Sep 05, 2008
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Pat Dye Show Script, October 21, 1979

Source: University Archives IA0000:18:2:1:1; IA0000:18:2:1:3 Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: Every fall, as the leaves begin to color and the air get cooler, thoughts at many campuses turn...

Aug 29, 2008
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The Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina 1964

Source: Capus Miller Waynick Papers, 1775 [1932-1966]-1980, undated; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description:  This 1964 photograph is from the Capus Miller Waynick Papers (P-421/1346) and...

Aug 22, 2008
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We Choose America

Source: We Choose America, Hoover E 169.1.W5x Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: We Choose America was East Carolina University's literary contribution to the 1976 American bi-centennial. Written at the height...