The Ship’s Log

Mar 20, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Judge Thaddeus Banks Letter

Source: Edward Merritt McEachern, Jr., Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #25 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This letter is from the papers of the Banks, Sadtler, and Stacey families of...

Mar 14, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

High School Track Meet

Source: University Archives, call # ECU/06/N     Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The first annual track meet of the Eastern Division of Public High Schools was held at the...

Mar 07, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Frank S. Briggs and the Yukon Gold Rush

Source: Frank Spencer Briggs Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #781 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The Yukon Gold Rush or the Klondike Gold Rush, as it was sometimes known, was...

Feb 29, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

The Library Club, from the 1958 Buccaneer and Synergy, 2008

Source: University Archives, Special Ref LB 1927.E3x 1958 Staff Person: L.K. Gypsye Legge Description: As we continue to celebrate ECU's Centennial through 2009 there are many times that looking at...

Feb 22, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Clarence Leroy Shuping Letter

Source: Guide to the Clarence Leroy Shuping Papers, 1920-1975, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #553 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Letter of Clarence Leroy Shuping concerning Franklin D. Roosevelt's Campaign in...

Feb 15, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Denis B. Cashman Diary

Source: Denis B. Cashman Papers, 1865-1887, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #458 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Diary of Denis B. Cashman, noted Irish patriot, from the Denis B. Cashman Papers,...

Feb 08, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Portrait of Enfa Zhou Awaiting Execution, 1907

Source: Quentin Gregory Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #200 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This is a photograph of Enfa Zhou, leader of a gang of Manchurian guerilla outlaws, prior...

Feb 01, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Prohibition Propaganda Broadside, Circa 1908

Source: Getsinger Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #172 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: February 20th, 2008, will mark the 75th anniversary of the proposal by Congress of the Twenty-first...

Jan 25, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Post Card of the movie “Pitch a Boogie Woogie”

Source: John W. Warner Papers, 1947-1986, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #519 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: "Pitch a Boogie Woogie" was the first movie made by a North Carolina-based production...

Jan 18, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Sally Phillips Smith

Source: Oral History Interview #11 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Sally Smith was born in Hyde County on November 15, 1877 and died on May 1978. She taught for over...