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ECU Centennial Exhibit
Founding
1st Graduation

John Lawson Exhibit
Entrepreneur
Adventurer
Naturalist

Steamers Exhibit
Construction
Navigation
Regular Operations
Agent
Excursions
Repairs
Connecting Steamers
KALULA

Tobacco Exhibit
Business
Newspapers
Records/Photos
Warehouses
Census

Wright Brothers Exhibit
Diaries
Photos
The Brothers
Outer Banks
Hidden Images
Publications
Dare County Homecoming Edition
Rare Articles and Pamphlets
Wright Memorial Special Edition
Weather Data

ECU Centennial Exhibit
Founding
"The Act Authorizing the Training School"
"For an Eastern Normal"
"The Wilson Normal: Elder P.D. Gold of Wilson Adresses the Committee on Education"
"The Wilson Normal: Delegation in Its Behalf Urge Its Establishment"
"A Delegation from Elizabeth City Here in the Interest of a State Normal School in that City"
"An Act to Stimulate High School Instruction in the Public Schools of the State and Teacher Training"
"Reasons Why the Citizens of Pitt Should Vote in Favor of the School Bonds..."
To My Dear Sir
Dear Col [Col. W.B. Rodman]
My Dear Sweetheart [Loula Fleming]
"Notice to the Voters of Pitt County"
My dear Sir [Mr. Jos. F. Ta[y]loe]
"No Modifications"
Dear Sir [Gov. R. B. Glenn]
Greenville's Proposal for ECTTS
"Greenville Gets the School, Will Be Located on the Harrington Property"
"Greenville Gets Training School"
"Greenville Winner of Training School"
"Ground Broken for the School"
"Rules of the Board of Trustees of the East Carolina Teachers' Training School"
"Haywood Dail’s Ballot-Diet Is Part of the ECU Legend"
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1st Graduation
ECTTS Faculty
Robert Wright with Students
Student Body & Faculty
"President Robert H. Wright's Inaugural Address"
"The East Carolina Training School"
[Five Friends]
[Commencement Photo]
[Commencement Program]
[Invitation to the Celebration of the Third Anniversary of the Groundbreaking for the ECTTS Building
"Pattie Dowell--East Carolina's First"
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John Lawson Exhibit
Entrepreneur
Robert Daniell v. John Lawson
Christoper Gale v. John Lawson
Abstract of John Lawson's Will
Thomas Peterson, attorney of Perry and Company v. John Lawson
To Edmund Jenings Esq.
Contests of John Lawson's Will
Christopher Gale v. Joseph Dereham
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Adventurer
To Secretary, SPG [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts]
To Chenin and Boyd
To Glover
To Lawson
Journal of the Proceedings of Philip Ludwell and Nathaniel Harrison
To Alexander Spotswood, Governor of Virginia
To the Honorable Robert Gibs and To the Honorable Council and General Assembly
"Relation of my American Project"
To Secretary, SPG [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts]
"The Torch Leads On: 175 Years of New Bern School in Historic Review"
Biographical Sketch of John Lawson
Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, and Writer
Paradise Regained Again: The Literary Context of John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina
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Naturalist
Browse Herbarium Specimens by Taxonomic Latin Name
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HS158 p129
HS158 p151
HS158 p214
HS171 p65
HS242 p110
HS242 p111
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HS242 p128
HS242 p132
HS242 p135
HS242 p129b
HS242 p136
HS242 p134
HS242 p129
HS242 p131
HS242 p130
HS242 p133
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Steamers Exhibit
Construction
To E. S. Askew & Brother
[Envelope from E. H. Frazier & Co., East-Baltimore Iron and Brass Works]
To E. S. Askew & Bro.
[Contract between Frazier & Co. and Askew & Bro.]
To E. S. Askew & Bro.
To Father [Zephaniah Askew]
To Father, Sir [Zephaniah Askew]
To Father [Zephaniah Askew]
To Father [Zephaniah Askew]
Permanent Enrollment No. 6
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Tobacco Exhibit
Business
Report of the Bureau of Labor and Printing for Pitt County
The North Carolina Year Book
The North Carolina Year Book and Business Directory
Report of the Department of Labor and Printing for Pitt County
Illustrated City of Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina
The North Carolina Year Book and Business Directory
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Newspapers
"Greenville Tobacco Warehouse . . . The Grand Opening"
"Greenville Tobacco Warehouse . . . Has Four Breaks Each Week"
"Pitt County is Fast Gaining . . . "
"Tobacco Culture"
"About Curing Tobacco"
"How Tobacco Was Introduced into Pitt"
"Let 'Er Hum!"
"Tobacco Warehouse"
"Tobacco Warehouse"
"The Warehouse"
"Greenville Tobacco Warehouse"
"The Tobacco Department: Greenville's Progressive Business Men"
[Editor's Note about O. L. Joyner]
"The Tobacco Department: The Growth and Development of the Greenville N.C. Tobacco Market"
"The Tobacco Department: Our Buyers"
"The Tobacco Department: Our Buyers"
"The Tobacco Department: Our Buyers"
"The Tobacco Department: Our Buyers"
"Many Delegates Here"
"Growers of Tobacco"
Center Brick Warehouse
Famer's Consolidated Tobacco Co.
Paraham's Warehouse
Wiley Brown
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Records/Photos
A Country Scene in Pitt County, N.C.
A Tobacco Field Near Greenville, N.C.
[Unidentified Men in a Pitt County Tobacco Field]
[Letterhead of the Eastern Tobacco Warehouse, Greenville, NC]
[Letterhead of Evans & Hooker, Greenville, NC]
To the Tobacco Planters of North Carolina
[Letterhead of Coward, Hooker & Company, Greenville, NC]
[Letterhead of Parham & Parham, Greenville, NC]
One of the First Tobacco Barns in Pitt County
Export Leaf Tobacco Co. (Greenville, NC) Payroll Sheets
Leaf Packing Factories of the Imperial Tobacco Co. in America: Farmville
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Warehouses
[Map of Greenville Tobacco Warehouse District]
Greenville, NC Tobacco Warehouse Historic District: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
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Census
1900 Census Returns for Pitt County, North Carolina
Search By Last Name or Occupation

Aggregate Census Items
1900 Aggregate Census Population Data for Pitt County, Part I
1900 Aggregate Census Population Data for Pitt County, Part II
1900 Aggregate Census Agriculture Data for Pitt County, Part I
1900 Aggregate Census Agriculture Data for Pitt County, Part II
1900 Aggregate Census Manufactures Data for Pitt County
1910 Aggregate Census Population Data for Pitt County
1910 Aggregate Census Agriculture Data for Pitt County
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Publications
Dare County Homecoming Edition
[Ad for Steamer Trenton, East Carolina Transportation Company]
[Ad for Manteo-Norfolk Line]
[Ad for Kramer Brothers Company]
[Ad for Sharber & White Hardware Co.]
"Dare County's Fame Spreads Across Globe"
"How to Get There and What to Do"
"Homecoming Program in Dare Next Week"
"Not a Mishap in a Million Miles"
"Principal Figures in the Dare County Homecoming Celebration Which Will Attract the Attention of Two Nations All Next Week"
"Roanoke Island Ready for its Noted Visitors"
"Warren Tells Congress Lost Colony Story"
"Largest County of Coast Guards"
"Praise For a Good Piece of Work"
"National Memorial to Aviation to be Sought"
"Prosperous County in a Prosperous State"
"Here Sportsmen Find Their Paradise"
"Beautiful Winter Homes in Currituck"
"Currituck Close to Roanoke Island Now"

Rare Articles and Pamphlets
[Text on Elizabeth City]
The Albemarle District of North Carolina
North Carolina and Its Resources
"History at Kill Devil Hill"
"Dare County"
Elizabeth City: Rich in Natural Beauty, Unsurpassed in Location, Unlimited in Resources, Manufacturing, Lumbering, Trucking and Fishing Center
The Beginning of Human Flight
Virginia Dare Shores, North Carolina
"The Wright Memorial and Fort Raleigh"
Wings Over Kill Devil...and Legends of the Dunes of Dare

Wright Memorial Special Edition
"Hunting, Fishing, Bathing" [at Kitty Hawk]
"Welcome to Dare County"
"Take Virginia Dare Trail to Opportunity"
"Manteo Welcomes the Visitors to the Wright Memorial Dedication"
[Ad for Owens Shoe Company]
[Ad for Dr. H.A. Thorson, Chiropractor]
[Ad for O.B. West Co.]
[Ad for E.S. Chesson & Son]
[Ad for P.W. Melick Co.]
[Ad for Shell Products]
[Ad for L.D. Tarkington]
[Ad for the Steamer Trenton]
[Ad for Elizabeth City Marble & Granite Works]
[Ad for The Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Company]
[Ad for Coca-Cola Bottling Works]
[Ad for The Texas Company]
"Wright Memorial Bridge"
"Where North Carolina History Begins"
"Captain Martin L. Johnson is Veteran Sailor of Dare Water Routes and Bypaths"
"Seven Ton Rock Set Up to Mark Birth of Flight"
"Preparation at Kill Devil Hill Causing Bustle"
"Unquenchable Forever"
"Citizens of Kitty Hawk Have Erected Their Own Personal Tribute to Brothers' Memory"
"Memorial Body Always Behind Tower Plans"
"Drinkwater Says Didn't Send First Telegram of the Flight Joe Dozier, Deceased, Did It"
"Wright Memorial Bridge Forms Link Between Dare County and Mainland of Eastern Carolina"
"Sportsmen Find Long Sought Ideal Spot in Dare County Paradise"
"Surprised In a Way and In a Way I Wasn't," Says John T. Daniels Who Saw First Flight"
"Ehtridge Was Thrilled When Man First Flew"
"Sixty Foot Granite Memorial Now Towers High Above Sea Level On Scene of Man's Victory Over Air"
"Coast Guard Is an Integral Part of Dare County: Many Members of the Service are From Dare"
"Broadcast Through Columbia Network"
"Ruth Nichols"
"Proclamation of Mayor of Manteo Declares Holiday"
"Orville Wright is at Dedication of Granite Pylon Commemorating Flight Made December 17, 1903"
"Memorial Is Erected to Courage and Faith Says Congressman L.C. Warren"
"Nature Loses Another Battle as Memorial Is Dedicated in Downpour"
"Highlights"
"Feeling of Resentment Seen in Dare County as Result of Wright Memorial Dedication"

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Weather Data
1900
1901
1902
1903
1908
1911
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