Imported Archives

Oct 23, 2009
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Women’s 1915 Basketball Team

Source: University Archives, Call Number 55-01-0082 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: Between 1909 and 1932, the only organized sports teams at East Carolina Teachers College were women's teams. Women's basketball...

Oct 16, 2009
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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...

Oct 09, 2009
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Remembering The Flood of the Century

Source: University Archives Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: Autumn on campus is a time of happy reunions among those returning, and soon many are engaged in the various...

Oct 02, 2009
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Lucy Cherry Crisp

Source: Lucy Cherry Crisp Papers, 1794-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #154 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Lucy Cherry Crisp (1899-1977), a native of Edgecombe County, N.C., studied music at the...

Sep 18, 2009
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1956 GMC Work Trucks Foldout Brochure Poster

Source: Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records, 1943-1998, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #758 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: General Motors Corporation (GMC) has flourished throughout much of its history as a...

Sep 11, 2009
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Football Practice Now Underway

Source: University Archives Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: With the start of the 77th football season for East Carolina University we can take a look back at how it all...

Sep 04, 2009
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S.S. Utah – A Banned Book

Source: S.S. Utah, Hoover PS 3531.E2967 S1 1933 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Mike Pell's S.S. Utah is an example of the genre of proletarian fiction. Proletarian fiction written in...

Aug 28, 2009
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Bryan Grimes

Source: Thomas Sparrow Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Bryan Grimes (2 Nov. 1828-14 Aug. 1880), the noted Eastern North Carolina planter and civil war...

Aug 21, 2009
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The Little Mint

Source: The Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This image from the Daily Reflector Negative Collection is of a drive-in restaurant called...

Aug 14, 2009
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White’s Theatre

Source: Junius D. Grimes Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #571 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This letter from the Junius D. Grimes Papers depicts White's Theatre located on Fifth Street...