East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

May 31, 2024
  • Patrick Cash

Remembrance and Records: WWII Through Archival Collections

Over the next year, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Library Special Collections will be highlighting items from the East Carolina Manuscripts Collection...

May 23, 2024
  • Jonathan Dembo

Midway Island Scenes & Memories, 1903-1918

Pictured are a fragment of a letter Rear Admiral Albert Parker Niblack wrote to his wife on their 15th wedding anniversary, 24 November 1918, and 6 photographs of Midway Island...

May 16, 2024
  • Jonathan Dembo

Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Lt. Niblack Anticipating the Spanish American War, April 7th, 1898

Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when he wrote this letter to Lt. Albert Parker Niblack, then serving as Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Rome, Italy....

May 09, 2024
  • Jonathan Dembo

Captain James Cook Monument, Hawaii, ca. 1904-1905

When he took this picture of the Captain Cook Monument, sometime during 1904-1905, Lt. Commander Albert Parker Niblack was captain of the USS Iroquois (AT-46), a steam tug based at...

Apr 25, 2024
  • Jonathan Dembo

Hannah and Her Family, 1856

This sketch of an enslaved North Carolina African American family, signed ETF [Miss Elizabeth “Bettie” Taylor Flowers (1838-1916)], was a gift to Joyner Library from John Baxton Flowers, III [Mr....

Feb 10, 2024
  • Patrick Cash

Carl Long: Baseball Player, Law Enforcement Officer, Bus Driver, Barrier Breaker

Collection: Carl Long Oral History Interview (#OH0266), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA In celebration of Black History Month, Special Collections...

Jan 05, 2024
  • Kristen Daniel

New Special Collections Exhibit: One Woman’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage

The Special Collections Division is happy to bring you a new exhibit featuring the story of Cornelia Petty Jerman. With Women’s History Month approaching in March, we are celebrating Jerman’s...

Dec 04, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: The Experiences of Archie P. Kelley and Victor Delano

In commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Joyner Library Special Collections has chosen to highlight two specific collections from United States Naval officers who both...

Nov 28, 2023
  • Jonathan Dembo

Staff Pick: Robert L. Ghormley Papers

The photograph to the right is one of 13 images in a file documenting the operations of the American – British – Soviet Tripartite Naval Commission, which the World War...

Nov 16, 2023
  • Alston Cobourn
  • Justin Borer
  • Marlena Rose

Happy 100th Birthday Dr. Earl Trevathan, Jr.!

On September 29, 2023, Dr. Earl Trevathan, Jr. celebrated the milestone birthday of 100 years. In recognition of his milestone birthday, we are taking a look back at his exceptional...