East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

May 15, 2007

Improved Jordan Grits Separator

Source: F. Rehm & Sons Company Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #469 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This sales brochure dates from January 1915 and advertises "The Improved Jordan Grits...

May 04, 2007

Mark Twain Letter

Source: Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #446 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The letter attached is by Samuel L. Clemens better known by his pen...

Apr 30, 2007

Wright Hotel, Raleigh, NC

Source: Tabitha Marie DiVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #480 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: This image is of the lobby of the Wright Hotel in Raleigh, NC. The woman...

Mar 16, 2007

Pitt Theatre, Greenville, NC

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: The image below was taken in December 1958 for use in a Daily Reflector article...

Mar 01, 2007

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...

Feb 23, 2007

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

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

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

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

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...