V-Mail Easter Greeting
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Saunders Family Collection, 1941-1945, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #964 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image that is shown is a V-mail Easter greeting dated...
letters (correspondence) Archives
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...
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,...
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...
Chinese New Year, 1903
Source: Guide to the George Leland Dyer Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #340 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The Chinese New Year is one of that country's most important holidays....
Christmas Celebrations in Wilkesboro, N.C., As Described in 1848 Letter
Source: Guide to the Hackett Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #176 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Dr. A. A. Scroggs of Wilkesboro, N.C. in Wilkes County, wrote to his...
Letter from King George V To Byron Hilliard and the American Expeditionary Forces 1918
Source: Guide to the James Byron Hilliard Collection, 1760-1965, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #182 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James Byron Hilliard was a genealogist who gathered and compiled his...
Letter of Walter Clark to Dr. Charles O’Hagan Laughinghouse
Source: Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #267 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse (1871-1930), a native of Pitt County, North Carolina, worked as a physician...
Queen City Coach Company Letter, October 16, 1944
Source: Herbert Floyd Seawell, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manscript Collection #496 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: In general, modern letterheads are not as ornate or colorful as they used to...
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,...