Chronology of Pitt County History
Source: Chronology of Pitt County History, Joyner - NC Broadsides Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Today’s pick features "Chronology of Pitt County History,” a broadside by Jessamine Shumate. Shumate was...
Women Archives
American Legion 40-Year Member Certificate
Source: Minnie B. Parker Scrapbook Manuscript Collection #89 Staff Person: Martha G. Elmore Description: Minnie Bell Parker lived most of her adult life in Norfolk, Virginia, after being born October...
Petticoat Pilots Meeting
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection (Manuscript Collection #741) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: For decades women faced tremendous hurdles in their desire to become pilots. In the early years they...
Ellen Zukunft McGrew
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...
Imperial Tobacco Company Factory Employees
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.11.a.7 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: In this August 1956 image taken for the Greenville, N.C., Daily Reflector newspaper, African American women are sorting tobacco at...