cultural artifacts Archives

1918 Flu Pandemic nickname “Spanish Flu”, March 1918 to June 1920

Source: University Archives Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Health conditions at ECTTC are one of the major topics mentioned in the Board of Trustees minutes from 1918. There were 141...

President Wright’s Chapel Talk Concerning the Budget

Source: University Archives, Chancellor's Office, Record Group CH1050, Series 2, Subseries 1, Box 1, Folder 6 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images below are from East Carolina Teachers College...

Lawrence Douglas Wilder

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Carroll H. Leggett Collection, 1970-1990, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #856 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President...

Faculty Meeting on Wright Inauguration and Formation of Students Council

Source: University Archives Record Group SL2600 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The image below is of the East Carolina Teachers Training School faculty meeting minutes from Nov. 1, 1909. In...

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...

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...

Joseph Hewes, Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Source: Brownrigg Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #597 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The image is of a legal document sworn to by Joseph Hewes in May 1761. He...

81st Infantry Division Wildcat Shoulder Patch

Source: George Willcox Mclver Papers (Addition #6), East Carolina Manuscript Collection #251 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The Carolina Wildcat insignia displayed here is a reproduction of the shoulder patches...

WW II Japanese Souvenir Flag

Source: U.S. Navy Memorial Collection, Jim Will Spry Papers, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #677.082 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This item is believed to be a souvenir flag obtained...

ECC Patch

Source: University Archives, CH0001/3     Staff Person: Suellyn Lathrop Description: This patch is currently on display as part of the third installment of the Centennial Exhibits created by graduate...