East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

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...

Jan 23, 2009

Lawrence Douglas Wilder

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Carroll H. Leggett Collection, 1970-1990, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #856 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President...

Jan 02, 2009

Chinese New Year, 1903

Source: Guide to the George Leland Dyer Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #340 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The Chinese New Year is one of that country's most important holidays....

Dec 19, 2008

Christmas Celebrations in Wilkesboro, N.C., As Described in 1848 Letter

Source: Guide to the Hackett Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #176 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Dr. A. A. Scroggs of Wilkesboro, N.C. in Wilkes County, wrote to his...