Source: The Merchant Shipper's Assistant and Common Carrier's Guide (Boston: I.R. Butts, 1850) and The Seaman's Assistant (Boston: I.R. Butts, 1849). Joyner Library Special Collections, HE745 .B88 1850 Digitized version...
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...
Source: USS Sarda entering Havana, Cuba Call Number: 818.os1.1 Staff Person: Ken Harbit Description: USS Sarda (SS-488), was a Tench-class submarine. Financed by bonds purchased by the residents of Lynn,...
Source: Ronald Vaughn Papers (Manuscript Collection #658) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: Ronald Vaughn of Brownwood, TX, enlisted in the Navy with his twin brother Donald (January 1944). He served...
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...
Source: John Luke Porter Papers (#850) Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: John L. Porter (1813-1893) constructed naval ships in Portsmouth, Virginia, prior to the Civil War. After the secession of...
Source: Harold Stacey Burdick Collection, 1892-1923; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1162 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown is a studio portrait of Lt. Commander Harold Stacey Burdick (#1162.1.g) in...
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...
Source: Ellen Zukunft McGrew Papers, 1942-1958; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #723 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This featured portrait is of Ellen Zukunft McGrew of Portland, Maine, an X-ray technician who...
Source: S.S. Utah, Hoover PS 3531.E2967 S1 1933 Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: Mike Pell's S.S. Utah is an example of the genre of proletarian fiction. Proletarian fiction written in...
