postcards Archives

Oct 31, 2017
  • Jennifer Daugherty

The Life of Senator Robert Morgan

Source: Robert Morgan Papers #268 Staff Person: Sherry Cortes Description: Senator Robert Morgan was a North Carolina native, born and raised in Lillington, N.C.  This collection contains personal papers, Senatorial documents,...

Nov 01, 2016
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Postcard to Edward Cyrus Winslow

  Source: E.C. Winslow Collection, EC Manuscript Collection #1174 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description:  The E. C. Winslow Collection (#1174) contains a variety of postcards. Among them is this funny postcard sent by Corporal...

Aug 26, 2014
  • Jennifer Daugherty

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...

Nov 19, 2013
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Honoring Our Past

Source: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/293.1 Postcard of the U.S.S. North Carolina. Title from historical note on verso. "U.S.S. North Carolina Battleship Commission." Numbered P57112. Date approximated. Identifier: 318.2.c.317 Staff Person: Ken Harbit Description:...

Apr 29, 2013
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Vacationing on the Water at Beaufort, N.C., in 1911

Source: Frank M. Wooten, Jr., Papers (Manuscript Collection #126) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These two postcards were sent from Beaufort, N.C., in July of 1911 to Mrs. Julia Wooten...

Apr 15, 2013
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Rough on Rats Advertising Card

Source: Laupus Health Sciences History Collection Staff Person: Matt Reynolds Description: This late 19th Century advertising card for E.S. Wells Rough on Rats vermin extermination powder depicts a peeved family...

Apr 25, 2012
  • Jennifer Daugherty

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...

Feb 29, 2012
  • Jennifer Daugherty

American Forces Occupy Veracruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914

Source: John B. Green Collection #380.1.a Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This early combat photograph taken by an American sailor shows the first of approximately 2,300 sailors and marines from...

May 21, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

New Bern, North Carolina, 1908 Post Card

Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: New Bern was founded in 1710 and is North Carolina's second oldest town.  This post card, bearing a 1908...

Mar 26, 2010
  • Jennifer Daugherty

Couples Dancing at Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #275 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown is a postcard of a dance held in the Lumina Dancing Pavilion at...