East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

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...

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...