East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Apr 17, 2012

Concrete River Steamers of World War I, ca. 1921

Source: John B. Green Collection #380.2.b Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Seen in the photograph above are four, unnamed, concrete-hulled river steamers at the Newport Shipping Corporation shipyard, in New...

Apr 11, 2012

College View Neighborhood in the 1950s

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: A family works together in 1957 to maintain the appearance of the yard of their home in the...

Mar 27, 2012

Photograph of Confederate veterans and daughter

Source: Taft Family Papers #784, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:   Today’s staff pick features an undated photograph (left to right) of Major Orren Randolph Smith, his daughter...

Mar 20, 2012

Tobacco Advertising in China

Source: James N. Joyner Papers (Manuscript Collection #429) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James N. Joyner (1888-1972), attended the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1910. He was employed ...

Mar 14, 2012

Silver Frosted Trees

Source: Wilbur Kenneth Bragg Collection, #1100.1.c Description: Image of trees covered with frost taken around Christmastime, 1944 near an American Army camp named Camp Pinetree located in High Wycombe, England....

Feb 29, 2012

American Forces Occupy Veracruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914

Source: John B. Green Collection #380.1.a Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This early combat photograph taken by an American sailor shows the first of approximately 2,300 sailors and marines from...

Feb 21, 2012

Main Street in Windsor, N.C., 1910

Source:  Grady T. Davis, Sr. Papers (Manuscript Collection #1187) Staff Person:  Martha Elmore Description:  This photograph of Main Street, looking north, in Windsor, N.C., is one of eight photographs (size 8"...

Feb 08, 2012

Rebel Prisoners being brought to Headquarters, Petersburg, 1865

                          Source: Frances W. Knowles Papers, #164, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Member: Ralph Scott   The Francis...

Feb 01, 2012

William Woods Holden Election Handbill

Source: Benjamin B. Winborne Papers #691-005, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s staff pick features an original handbill (circa 1868) promoting the election of William Woods...

Jan 25, 2012

Gallows and Cemetery at Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp

Source: Alvin Mewborn Papers (Manuscript Collection #1159) Staff Person: Maury York Description: Between 1940 and 1945, Nazi Germany developed a large complex of concentration camps in the vicinity of Mauthausen...