Children in China
Source: Ola V. Lea Papers, (East Carolina Manuscript Collection #351) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Miss Ola Lea, was a native of Virginia and a Baptist missionary to China and...
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Rise Stevens
Source: University Archives Yearbook Collection, 1943 (UA50-01-1943-165). Staff Person: Arthur Carlson Description: This image from the University Archives features famed opera singer Rise Stevens. Born Rise Steenberg, 11 June 1913...
Native Girl in Wedding Dress
Source: George Leland Dyer Papers, #340 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This image from the George Leland Dyer Papers is of a Sumay girl, a native of the Mariana Islands...
Farmer’s Day
Source: University Archives 55-01-1927 Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: John Messick, president of East Carolina College, is riding in a Chevy Bel Air in the Farmville, North Carolina Farmer's Day...
World’s Fastest Typist
Source: University Archives UA55-01-8226 Staff Person: Arthur Carlson Description: This picture from the University Archives features Cortez W. Peters, Sr who held the world record as the World's Fastest Typist...
Farewell to China
Source: James N. Joyner Papers (#429), East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: James Noah Joyner was born in 1888. He attended the University of North Carolina, and...
Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, ca. 1876
Source: Elihu A. White Papers, #14.11.a (P-14/6) Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This photograph of Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia dates from the 1870s. It's name derives from the fact that it...
Concrete River Steamers of World War I, ca. 1921
Source: John B. Green Collection #380.2.b Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Seen in the photograph above are four, unnamed, concrete-hulled river steamers at the Newport Shipping Corporation shipyard, in New...
College View Neighborhood in the 1950s
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: A family works together in 1957 to maintain the appearance of the yard of their home in the...
Photograph of Confederate veterans and daughter
Source: Taft Family Papers #784, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s staff pick features an undated photograph (left to right) of Major Orren Randolph Smith, his daughter...