East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Feb 23, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

James Yadkin Joyner

Source: James Yadkin Joyner Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #345 Staff Person: Coleen Allen Description: The following biography is credited to the website it was taken from. There are also...

Feb 16, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Old Money

Source: Sallie Joyner Davis Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #133 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: This image is from a collection that contains a letter (1916) from Colonel Fred A....

Feb 02, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

HMS Bucton Castle

Source: A.M. Handley Journal, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1064 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is a pen and ink sketch of the HMS BUCTON CASTLE, a three-masted sailing ship....

Jan 12, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Towboat Oliver C. Shearer

Source: Marietta Manufacturing Company Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #742 Staff Person: Emily Blankenship Description: The Marietta Manufacturing Company records were officially donated to the Special Collections Department in the...

Jan 05, 2007
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Ada Delutuk Blackjack

Source: Inglis Fletcher Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #21 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Ada Delutuk was an Eskimo born in Alaska in 1898 who was raised from the age...

Dec 14, 2006
  • Jennifer Daugherty

World War II Diary

Source: Frank A. Armstrong Jr., Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #35 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Frank A. Armstrong Jr. Papers Collection # 35 has 18 boxes which are composed...

Dec 08, 2006
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Marietta Manufacturing Company, “Made Mechanically Correct”

Source: Marietta Manufacturing Company Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #742 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This week's pick comes from The Marietta Manufacturing Company Records, 1906-1995, n.d. (bulk 1930-1965). M.M.C.,...

Dec 01, 2006
  • Jennifer Daugherty

World War I Draft Notice

Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #275 Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #267 Edgerton Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #361 Staff Person: Brian Johnson...

Nov 17, 2006
  • Jennifer Daugherty

USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia

Source: John L. Porter Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #850 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is an original pen & ink sketch of the MERRIMAC (sic), the famous Confederate...

Oct 27, 2006
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Howard Zacher in his plane “Margie”

Source: Hugh Elroy Best, Jr. Family Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #894 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This week's pick comes from a collection that contains photographic prints and photocopied...