The Ship’s Log

Gatling Gun: The first Machine Gun

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the E. Frank Stephenson, Jr., Collection, 1736-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #692 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This remarkable invention, which was a revolving battery gun...

Barefoot on the Mall 2008

Source: University Archives (digital image being accessioned) Staff Person: L.K. Gypsye Legge Description: Last week we enjoyed delightful weather in Eastern North Carolina. Thursday, the 24th of April was sunny...

Dig We Must ! – Into the Coal Operators’ Profits!

Source: Dig We Must! - Into the Coal Operators’ Profits!, Hoover HD8039.M615 D5 1970 Staff Person: Maury York Description: With the approach of May Day, the Special Collections Department features...

Japanese Surrender Photograph, 2 September 1945

  Source: Frank A. Armstrong, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #35 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The photograph below is one of the most famous in any of our...

Bermuda Map

Source: Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas dictarum [Bermuda map], Special Collections Map Collection MC0035 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas dictarum [Bermuda map.] Amstelodami [Amsterdam,] Apud...

Telegram from Lyndon B. Johnson to Capus M. Waynick July 1, 1964

Source: Capus Miller Waynick Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today, April 4th, 2008, marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King,...

Washington Park, Beaufort County, N.C., Photographs

Source: William Blount Rodman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #329 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Washington Park is on a peninsula of land adjoining Washington, N.C., on the east. The...

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...

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...

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...