East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

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...

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...

Aug 07, 2009
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WWII Prisoner of War Camp, Williamston, N.C., 1943-1945

Source: Francis M. Manning Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #488 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: By 1943, the U.S. government had thousands of Italian and German prisoners who were in...

Jul 24, 2009
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ECU Facilities Services

Source: Guide to the Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #741 Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: The humidity is getting thicker and you are more likely...

Jul 17, 2009
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The Fugitive Slave Act Passed by, the Senate and House of Representatives September 12, 1850 & Approved by, President Millard Fillmore September 18, 1850

Source: The Fugitive Slave Act, East Carolina Manuscript Collection MB0001 (Miscellaneous Broadsides) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: In the 1840's the Underground Railroad was very busy due to the 1842...

Jul 10, 2009
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Letter from Harry S. Logan to his half-sister, Mrs. H.C. (Murdena Susan Logan) Kennerley

Source: Guide to the Harry Seymour Logan Papers, 1930-1936, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #111 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: We hear a lot of comparisons these days between the current...

Jul 03, 2009
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Tabitha Marie DeVisconti

Source: Guide to the Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, 1705-1983, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #480 Staff Person: Coleen Allen Description: This photograph depicts Tabitha Marie DeVisconti and her sister, Sue May...

Jun 19, 2009
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Hoover Days Cart

Source: Guide to the Daily Reflector Negative Collection, ca. 1920-1967, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #741 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown above (1951) is of two men in...