postcards Archives

Oct 31, 2017
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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
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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...

Apr 29, 2013
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...

Dec 04, 2009
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Holiday Postcards

Source: Blanche Hardee Rives Papers, 1905-1974, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #335 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images below are holiday postcards for Thanksgiving and Christmas from the Blanche Hardee...

Jun 05, 2009
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Pitt County Courthouse, ca. 1900

Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #275 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This postcard depicts the Pitt County Courthouse prior to its destruction by fire in 1910. Located...

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