Operation Husky, July – August, 1943
Over the next year, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Joyner Library Special Collections will be highlighting items from the East Carolina Manuscripts...
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives
Operation Overlord, June 6, 1944
Over the next year, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Library Special Collections will be highlighting items from the East Carolina Manuscripts Collection...
Midway Island Scenes & Memories, 1903-1918
Pictured are a fragment of a letter Rear Admiral Albert Parker Niblack wrote to his wife on their 15th wedding anniversary, 24 November 1918, and 6 photographs of Midway Island...
Theodore Roosevelt Letter to Lt. Niblack Anticipating the Spanish American War, April 7th, 1898
Theodore Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when he wrote this letter to Lt. Albert Parker Niblack, then serving as Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Rome, Italy....
Captain James Cook Monument, Hawaii, ca. 1904-1905
When he took this picture of the Captain Cook Monument, sometime during 1904-1905, Lt. Commander Albert Parker Niblack was captain of the USS Iroquois (AT-46), a steam tug based at...
Hannah and Her Family, 1856
This sketch of an enslaved North Carolina African American family, signed ETF [Miss Elizabeth “Bettie” Taylor Flowers (1838-1916)], was a gift to Joyner Library from John Baxton Flowers, III [Mr....
Carl Long: Baseball Player, Law Enforcement Officer, Bus Driver, Barrier Breaker
Collection: Carl Long Oral History Interview (#OH0266), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA In celebration of Black History Month, Special Collections...
New Special Collections Exhibit: One Woman’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage
The Special Collections Division is happy to bring you a new exhibit featuring the story of Cornelia Petty Jerman. With Women’s History Month approaching in March, we are celebrating Jerman’s...
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: The Experiences of Archie P. Kelley and Victor Delano
In commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Joyner Library Special Collections has chosen to highlight two specific collections from United States Naval officers who both...
Staff Pick: Robert L. Ghormley Papers
The photograph to the right is one of 13 images in a file documenting the operations of the American – British – Soviet Tripartite Naval Commission, which the World War...