East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Dec 21, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Christmas Card by William Meade Prince, 1950

Source: Inglis Fletcher Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection 21.17.e Staff Person: Maury York Description: The image on this Christmas card was drawn by William Meade Prince (1893-1951), an illustrator and...

Dec 07, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

81st Infantry Division Wildcat Shoulder Patch

Source: George Willcox Mclver Papers (Addition #6), East Carolina Manuscript Collection #251 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The Carolina Wildcat insignia displayed here is a reproduction of the shoulder patches...

Nov 30, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

WW II Japanese Souvenir Flag

Source: U.S. Navy Memorial Collection, Jim Will Spry Papers, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #677.082 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This item is believed to be a souvenir flag obtained...

Nov 09, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Flooding in Kinston, NC

Source: Guide to the William E. Elmore Collection, 1821-1948, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Flooding is common in eastern North Carolina. Below are two...

Oct 30, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Sparrow Warren Civil War Letter

Source: Guide to the Thomas Sparrow Papers, 1819-1872, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The image below is correspondence written to Captain Thomas Sparrow of the...

Oct 19, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

World War I Battlefield Scenes

Source: Guide to the John Graham Johns Papers, 1921-1955, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #410 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The two images shown are from the John Graham Johns Papers,...

Oct 12, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Capus Waynick and Anastasio Somoza

Source: Guide to the Capus Miller Waynick Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This photograph from the Capus Miller Waynick Papers in the East Carolina...

Sep 27, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Buzz Bomb Attack 1944

Source: Wilbur Kenneth Bragg Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #1100 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Buzz Bomb Attack 1944 The attached images are from a private scrapbook compiled by Sgt....

Sep 20, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Blue Ridge Parkway

Source: Capus Waynick Papers, Manuscript Collection 421 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This week's staff pick celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the completion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Originally a...

Sep 04, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Hearne Brothers & Co. of Whitakers, NC

Source: Lawrence-Gulley General Store Records, 1903-1954, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: General store records are usually sizable collections which contain many cash books and ledgers. They...