Mary Jordan White 1859-1909
Source: Belvidere Academy Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #4 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This small pamphlet details the life and death of Mary Jordan White, a student, teacher, and...
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives
Dueling in New Bern, N.C. 1822-1872
Source: Guide to the Stephen F. Miller Memoir, 1872, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #371 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The images shown below are of the front cover and two...
Lucy Cherry Crisp
Source: Lucy Cherry Crisp Papers, 1794-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #154 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Lucy Cherry Crisp (1899-1977), a native of Edgecombe County, N.C., studied music at the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...