Davy Crockett Letter
Source: John Heritage Bryan Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #147 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Transcription: from David Crockett to John H. Bryan, May 26, 1829 Dresdon Weakley County 26...
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...