East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Aug 07, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Jun 05, 2009

Pitt County Courthouse, ca. 1900

Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #275 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This postcard depicts the Pitt County Courthouse prior to its destruction by fire in 1910. Located...

May 29, 2009

Basketball Star Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell & Coach Paul Jones (ca. 1977-1979)

Source: William H. Rowland Papers, 1861-2006, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #876.17.x Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description:  This is a photograph of Kinston, N.C.-born (1955) basketball star Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, who...

May 22, 2009

East Carolina Railway and Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr.

Source: Henry Clark Bridgers, Jr., Papers, 1870-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #558 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr. (1876-1951) of Tarboro, N.C., was born into a railroading...

May 01, 2009

Josephus Daniels

Source: Elias Carr Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #160 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Josephus Daniels was born May 18, 1862. His was educated at Wilson Collegiate Institute and the...