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...
East Carolina Manuscript Collection Archives
WWI Draft Notice
Source: Roy S. Fisk Papers, #1209 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison The draft notice shown here that is dated June 17, 1918, was issued to Roy S. Fisk to induct him into the...
Bodie Island Lighthouse
Source: Jan Sellars Coward Collection, (Manuscript Collection #1112) Staff Person: Jennifer Joyner Description: With Fall approaching, many are visiting the beach for the last time this season. One tourist attraction...
American Legion 40-Year Member Certificate
Source: Minnie B. Parker Scrapbook Manuscript Collection #89 Staff Person: Martha G. Elmore Description: Minnie Bell Parker lived most of her adult life in Norfolk, Virginia, after being born October...
Thomas Smith Deed for 240 Acres, Bladen County, NC, 25 Sept. 1799
Source: Ralph C. Deal Collection (ECU Manuscript Collections #0027) Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This deed, survey and plat seen above, dated 25 September 1799, granting 240 acres of land in...
Tom Wolfe In Our Time, and In Our Library
Special note: This blog post was written by Tim Buchanan, M.A. '15, East Carolina University Department of English, as part of a special series highlighting the Stuart Wright Collection While...
The Dartmouth Dualist
Special note: This blog post was written by Edward Reges, M.A. ‘16, East Carolina University Department of English, as part of a special series highlighting the Stuart Wright Collection. Richard...
St. James Episcopal Church, Kittrell, NC
Source: Augustus Moore Family Papers (ECU Manuscript Collections #1216) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: St. James Episcopal Church was built in a Gothic-Style, the church is located in Kittrell, NC. A...
WWI Scene of Devastation
Source: Emil Gorling Papers, MC #1200 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison This image is from a postcard that is part of the Emil Gorling Papers, a collection that has postcards and photographs...
Scouting for Food
Source: Boy Scouts of America, East Carolina Council Records, MC #1199 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison This photo (1990) is from the Boy Scouts of America, East Carolina Council Records; a collection...