East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Apr 24, 2009

North Carolina Textile Industry Items

Source: Herbert Floyd Seawell, Sr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #497; Alice Green Hoffman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #127 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: During the late nineteeth and...

Apr 17, 2009

Tax Receipts from the Government of the Confederate States

Source: Elias Carr Papers, 1856-1910, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #160 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The receipts shown here are from taxes paid to the Government of the Confederate States...

Apr 09, 2009

V-Mail Easter Greeting

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Saunders Family Collection, 1941-1945, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #964 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image that is shown is a V-mail Easter greeting dated...

Mar 27, 2009

David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915

Source: David Balcombe Papers, East Carolina Manuscipt Collection Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: These 6 black and white photographs are from the David Balcombe Papers (Manuscript Collection #1140.1.i). They were...

Mar 13, 2009

National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C.

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Maury York Description: National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C. This post card depicts the National Bank Building, which was...

Mar 06, 2009

Americans Flee Mexico To Texas to avoid Attack by Revolutionaries, November 1913

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: John Augustus "Lorenzo" DeVisconti (August 10, 1836-January 13, 1918) was born in northern Italy to...

Feb 27, 2009

Goetzinger Letter

Source: Getsinger Family Papers, 1828-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #172 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The Getsinger Family Papers consist of correspondence and other records pertaining to the Mexican War,...

Feb 20, 2009

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Concert Daily Reflector Negative Collection#741

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's staff pick shows a slice of life in Greenville, North Carolina, entertainment nearly fifty...

Feb 13, 2009

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....

Jan 30, 2009

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...