The Ship’s Log

May 24, 2007
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Victoria Street, Barbados

Source: George Leland Dyer Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #340 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This view of Victoria Street on the island of Barbados was taken in 1875, probably...

May 18, 2007
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Jamestown 350th Anniversary in 1957

Source: George A. Holderness, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #672 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: The celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va., was just...

May 15, 2007
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Improved Jordan Grits Separator

Source: F. Rehm & Sons Company Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #469 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This sales brochure dates from January 1915 and advertises "The Improved Jordan Grits...

May 04, 2007
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Mark Twain Letter

Source: Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #446 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The letter attached is by Samuel L. Clemens better known by his pen...

Apr 30, 2007
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Wright Hotel, Raleigh, NC

Source: Tabitha Marie DiVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #480 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: This image is of the lobby of the Wright Hotel in Raleigh, NC. The woman...

Apr 18, 2007
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Pei-ching Chou Pao

Source: Beijing Review, Hoover DS 701 P42 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: The Hoover collection receives a number of current periodicals that were especially of interest to Dr. Peele who...

Apr 05, 2007
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Disaster Brings About An ECU Tradition

Source: University Archives, UW0000/2   Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This photo is of the reconstruction of the Old Cafeteria, which was originally known as the Refectory. Sometime during the...

Mar 30, 2007
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ECTC Budget Cuts, 1932

Source: University Archives, CH1050/3/1 Staff Person: Suellyn Lathrop Description: During the Depression the state of North Carolina began cutting budgets and in 1931-32 fiscal year declared it would operate on...

Mar 23, 2007
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Joseph McCarthy

Source: The Red-Addled Brain Behind the Scripps-Howard Smear of Joseph McCarthy, Hoover Pamphlet, E748.M143 K36 1954 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This pamphlet by Joseph P. Kamp denounces efforts by...

Mar 16, 2007
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Pitt Theatre, Greenville, NC

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: The image below was taken in December 1958 for use in a Daily Reflector article...