Imported Archives

Mar 20, 2009
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Students’ gardens at East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1914

Source: University Archives Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: In his 1910 report to the Board of Trustees, the president of East Carolina Teachers Training School, Robert Wright, requested land for...

Mar 13, 2009
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National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C.

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Maury York Description: National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C. This post card depicts the National Bank Building, which was...

Mar 06, 2009
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Americans Flee Mexico To Texas to avoid Attack by Revolutionaries, November 1913

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: John Augustus "Lorenzo" DeVisconti (August 10, 1836-January 13, 1918) was born in northern Italy to...

Feb 27, 2009
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Goetzinger Letter

Source: Getsinger Family Papers, 1828-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #172 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The Getsinger Family Papers consist of correspondence and other records pertaining to the Mexican War,...

Feb 20, 2009
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Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Concert Daily Reflector Negative Collection#741

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's staff pick shows a slice of life in Greenville, North Carolina, entertainment nearly fifty...

Feb 13, 2009
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Valentine’s Day Postcards

Source: Gracie Fulk Collection, 1909-1925, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #938 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images shown below are Valentine's Day postcards received by Gracie Fulk in 1924....

Feb 06, 2009
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Edward R. Murrow Delivering 1963 Commencement Speech

Source: University Archives, UW0000:2:14:a:3 Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: As the spring semester advances, graduation may seem in the distant future, but in about 12 weeks students will...

Jan 30, 2009
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USS LACKAWANNA Cabinet Card (1882)

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Albert Parker Niblack Collection, 1876-1942; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1080 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description:  This 1882 cabinet card shows portraits of 17 officers inset...

Jan 23, 2009
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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...

Jan 16, 2009
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The History of the Bucaniers of America

Source: The History of the Bucaniers of America Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Esquemelin, Alexandre Oliver The History of the Bucaniers of America; from the first original down to this...