boats Archives

Apr 17, 2012
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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...

Nov 04, 2010
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Aerial View of Barbour Boat Works, Inc.

Source:  Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records Staff Person:  Dale Sauter Description:  This image offers a nice view of the Barbour Boat Works factory in New Bern, North Carolina.  The business...

Jan 30, 2009
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USS LACKAWANNA Cabinet Card (1882)

Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Albert Parker Niblack Collection, 1876-1942; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1080 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description:  This 1882 cabinet card shows portraits of 17 officers inset...

Aug 08, 2008
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Barbour Boat Works, Inc.

Source: Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records, 1943-1998, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #758 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: One collection that has lately proven quite popular with researchers is the...

Apr 18, 2008
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Japanese Surrender Photograph, 2 September 1945

  Source: Frank A. Armstrong, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #35 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The photograph below is one of the most famous in any of our...

Jun 29, 2007
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Safe Boating

Source: U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #559 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Special Collections in Joyner Library is the official repository for the records of the...

Feb 02, 2007
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HMS Bucton Castle

Source: A.M. Handley Journal, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1064 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is a pen and ink sketch of the HMS BUCTON CASTLE, a three-masted sailing ship....

Jan 12, 2007
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Towboat Oliver C. Shearer

Source: Marietta Manufacturing Company Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #742 Staff Person: Emily Blankenship Description: The Marietta Manufacturing Company records were officially donated to the Special Collections Department in the...

Nov 17, 2006
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USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia

Source: John L. Porter Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #850 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is an original pen & ink sketch of the MERRIMAC (sic), the famous Confederate...

Sep 08, 2006
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Vessels Constitution and Etner

Source: U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1041 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: This digital image shows two sailing vessels, the CONSTITUTION of Manteo and the...