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....
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives
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...
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...
U. S. Coast Guard Orientation for Potential Recruits
Source: U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records Collection, 1939-1997 East Carolina Manuscript Collection #559 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is well known for providing...
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...
John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster, circa 1960
Source: Joseph F. and Lala Carr Steelman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #924 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's staff pick is a John F. Kennedy campaign poster (circa 1960)...
Postcards of President & Mrs. William H. Taft in Inauguration Parade & Departure of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, March 4, 1909
Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These postcard images depict the departure of President Theodore Roosevelt's carriage from the White House...