East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Jun 13, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Gazette of the United States and the NC Ratification of the US Constitution

Source: Gazette of the United States Collection, 1790, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #873 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This particular issue of The Gazette of the United States from January...

Jun 06, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Queen City Coach Company Letter, October 16, 1944

Source: Herbert Floyd Seawell, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manscript Collection #496 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: In general, modern letterheads are not as ornate or colorful as they used to...

May 30, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Postcard (1908) of Children Playing in Bogue Sound at Morehead City, N.C.

Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: This image of children wading in Bogue Sound at Morehead City, N.C., is from a...

May 23, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Emiline Pigott: Confederate Spy

Source: Bellair Plantation Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #87 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This image was taken from a 1903 New Berne (New Bern) calendar. The calendar is in...

May 09, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Gatling Gun: The first Machine Gun

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the E. Frank Stephenson, Jr., Collection, 1736-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #692 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This remarkable invention, which was a revolving battery gun...

Apr 18, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Japanese Surrender Photograph, 2 September 1945

  Source: Frank A. Armstrong, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #35 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The photograph below is one of the most famous in any of our...

Apr 11, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Bermuda Map

Source: Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas dictarum [Bermuda map], Special Collections Map Collection MC0035 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas dictarum [Bermuda map.] Amstelodami [Amsterdam,] Apud...

Apr 04, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Telegram from Lyndon B. Johnson to Capus M. Waynick July 1, 1964

Source: Capus Miller Waynick Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today, April 4th, 2008, marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King,...

Mar 28, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Washington Park, Beaufort County, N.C., Photographs

Source: William Blount Rodman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #329 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Washington Park is on a peninsula of land adjoining Washington, N.C., on the east. The...

Mar 20, 2008
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Judge Thaddeus Banks Letter

Source: Edward Merritt McEachern, Jr., Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #25 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This letter is from the papers of the Banks, Sadtler, and Stacey families of...