Jesse Helms
Source: David B. Stevens Papers, 1943-1946, 1973-1988, undated; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #779 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: Jesse Helms (1921-2008) was a five-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina and...
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives
James Noah Joyner in China
Source: James N. Joyner Papers, 1923-1954, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #429 Staff Person: Maury York Description: James Noah Joyner (1888-1972), the son of James Yadkin and Effie (Rouse) Joyner,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...