East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives

Oct 03, 2017
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World War I

Source:  Emil Gorling Papers 1200.1 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Emil Görling, a German solider during World War I, was a member of the Aufraumungs-Arbeit (literally translated as the "clean-up" crew)...

May 05, 2017
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Woman’s Portrait, Civil War

Source: Moore Family Papers (ECU Manuscript Collection #275) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Guilford Andrews carried this woman’s portrait during the Civil War. Andrews was a member of Company E....

Apr 27, 2017
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J. H. Rose on Telephone

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection 741.25.a.36 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: J. H. Rose, Civil Defense Manager for Pitt County, talks on telephone during Hurricane Donna in September of 1960....

Mar 21, 2017
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WWI Era Letter

Source: James G. Raby Papers, Manuscript Collection #317 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison     The James G. Raby Papers consists of handwritten letters from James G. Raby; a physician from...

Feb 01, 2017
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Houses on West First Street, with Sycamore Hill Baptist Church in the background, Greenville, NC

Houses on West First Street, Greenville, NC   Source: Greenville Urban Renewal Files, 1959-1977, Manuscript Collection #674, Image P674/197 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Houses on West First Street, with...

Jan 03, 2017
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Auditor’s Statement, A.C. Monk & Company, July 13, 1920

  Source:    A.C. Monk & Company/A.C. Monk Family Collection, 1907-2004  ECMC # 1285 Staff Person: Fred Harrison Description: Originating just prior to WWI under the name Monk Adams Company, Wilson, N.C,...

Aug 31, 2016
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Affidavit of John A. Richardson in the Trial of Thomas Brady, March 4, 1872

  Source: Henry Berry Lowrie Papers, 1864-1872 Manuscript Collection #1271 Staff Person: Fred Harrison Description: Solicitor  John A. Richardson motions to have Thomas Brady's trial moved out of Robeson County, N.C. owing...

Jun 30, 2016
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Saudi Arabian Guests February 12-14, 1945

Source: David L. Byrd Papers (#734.1.c) Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo On his return from the Yalta Conference in February 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, met King Saud [Abdul Aziz Ibn...

Mar 29, 2016
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Anniversary Program

Collection:  Jesse Rountree Moye Papers, MC #1111 Staff Member: Nanette Hardison The image below is of a program for an event held on May 27, 1932 in Farmville, North Carolina. This event...

Nov 16, 2015
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Happy Holidays

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection 741.19.c.15 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today's feature shows an unidentified woman pulling a turkey out of the oven during the holidays in 1959. This may bring...