As the tobacco project work began, interest grew at Joyner Library for expanding this project into digital history exhibits on other aspects of eastern North Carolina history. In the fall of 2000, the library hired a digital project manager to oversee this expanded endeavor. Three exhibits focusing on the 1900 era were identified to begin this work: the ECU Centennial Exhibit, the Steamers Exhibit, and the Pitt County Digital Tobacco History Exhibit. Graduate student assistants and work-study students began the work of digitizing and assembling the digital materials you see today.
ECU will celebrate its Centennial year in 2007. The current ECU Centennial Exhibit includes documentation concerning the controversy on where the school should be located as well as material about the first graduating class. The Steamers Exhibit pertains to steamboat lines serving the Cashie and Roanoke rivers and the Albemarle Sound during the late nineteenth century. The Exhibit's letters, written by the Askew brothers to their father, document the family’s steamer endeavors, including construction of the Bertie , which was based in Windsor, North Carolina.
The September 2001 public launch of the first three exhibits reflects Phase 1 of the work on these three topics. In October 2001, Phase 1 of a fourth exhibit, on John Lawson, was added to the this collection of digital exhibits. The first three exhibits focus on the turn of the twentieth century, while the John Lawson exhibit highlights the beginning of the eighteenth century. John Lawson's legacy in eastern North Carolina is examined via such documents as court records, an account of his dramatic death, and images of hundreds of actual plant specimens collected by Lawson and preserved in England.
More material has been identified for digitization in each of these four initial exhibits. Joyner Library at East Carolina University also looks forward to addressing more topics in new eastern North Carolina digital history exhibits in the coming years.
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Digital Editorial Board
Principal Investigators
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Manuscripts and Rare Books
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Digitization Center
Sources for Digitized Material
Digital Editorial Board
In October 2000 this Board was formed to help guide the development of the exhibits. The Board oversees all major aspects of exhibit work including exhibit topics, best practices, and other strategic planning issues. Board members include:
Carroll H. Varner
Director, Academic Library Services, East Carolina University (ECU),
varnerc@mail.ecu.edu
. Chair of the Digital Editorial Board 2000-present.
Deana Astle
Associate Director for Collections Department, Joyner Library, ECU,
astled@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2001-2003.
Pam Burton
Head of the Systems Department, Joyner Library, ECU,
burtonp@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2000-2003.
Jonathan Dembo
Head of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Joyner Library, ECU,
demboj@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2000-present.
Margaret Foote
Formerly Acting Associate Director and Head of Cataloging, Joyner
Library, ECU, Board member 2000-2001.
Jean Hiebert
Assistant Professor, Joyner Library, ECU,
hiebertj@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2002-2003.
John Lawrence
Associate Director for Administration & User Services, Joyner Library, ECU,
lawrencej@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2001-present.
Jan Mayo
Head of Cataloging, Joyner Library, ECU,
mayoj@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2002-2003.
Gail Munde
Formerly Associate Director, Joyner Library, ECU. Board member 2000.
Ann Stocks
Electronic Resources Librarian, Assistant Head of the Systems Department, Joyner Library, ECU,
stocksa@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2000-present.
Diana Williams
Digital Projects Manager, Joyner Library, ECU,
williamsdi@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2000-present.
Maury York
North Carolina librarian, Joyner Library, ECU,
yorkm@mail.ecu.edu
. Board member 2000-present.
Principal Investigators
Principal Investigators lead digital exhibits from conception to web publication and maintenance. These individuals or groups of individuals provide scholarly direction for the Exhibits. Their work includes selecting items for digitization, writing introductory research notes for each exhibit, and writing introductions to the categories of material within each exhibit. This information appears above the digitized item under the heading “Notes.” Principal Investigators to date include:
Mary Boccaccio
Curator of the East Carolina Manuscript Collection, Joyner Library, ECU,
boccacciom@mail.ecu.edu
. Principal Investigator for the Steamers Exhibit, 2000-present; and Principal Investigator for the ECU Centennial Exhibit, 2001.
Vincent J. Bellis
Professor Emeritus of Biology at ECU,
corgy@greenvillenc.com
. Principal Investigator for the Naturalist category (images of herbarium specimens) in the John Lawson Exhibit, 2001-present.
Suellyn Lathrop
University Archivist, Joyner Library, ECU
lathrops@mail.ecu.edu
. Principal Investigator for the ECU Centennial Exhibit, 2000-2001.
E. Thomson Shields, Jr.
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Roanoke Colonies Research Office at ECU,
shieldse@mail.ecu.edu
. Principal Investigator for the John Lawson Exhibit, 2001-present.
Maury York
North Carolina librarian, Joyner Library, ECU
yorkm@mail.ecu.edu
. Principal Investigator for the Pitt County Digital Tobacco History Exhibit, 2000-present.
Larry Tise
Wilbur and Orville Wright Visiting Distinguished Professor of History at ECU. Principal Investigator for the Wright Brothers Centennial Exhibit, 2003.
Adrienne Boniface
Laszlo Szabo
Mark Pike
Students
Graduate Research Assistants
Heather Cain
Scott Balkum
Chris Bingham
Sheldon Floyd
Elizabeth Hodges
Bakhodir Ismatov
Matthew Lawrence
Tracy Martin
Matthew Miller
Noel Mitchell
Rob Thompson
Jeff Wilhelm
Jesse Worley
Undergraduate Students
Wade Borden
Alexis Davis
Teshanna Dickens
Thomas Doyle
Rachael Durkee
Sarah Fox
Noah Folsom
Kenny Gray
Carletta Hill
LaToya Jones
Crystal Kuegel
Kashif Matthews
LeAnn McKoy
Moses Mitchener
Kinsey Moore
Phil Shutt
Justin Vaughan
Chi Yiu
Laurie Godwin
Susan Butler
Bryna Coonin
Valerie Garner
Fred Harrison
Barry Munson
Nancy Shires
Maury York
Jonathan Dembo
Martha Elmore
Susan Midgette
Suellyn Lathrop
Lynette Lundin
Kim Blanton
Dawn Beckwith
Brian Hall
Rita Khazanie
Michael O'Connor
Ralph Scott
Bob Smith
William Thiesen
Melissa Williams
Barbara Worthington
Vikram Ahmed
Michael Reece
Diana Williams
The staff of the Eastern North Carolina Digital
History Exhibits gratefully
acknowledges the following providers of materials for digitization:
Government Offices
Office of Register of Deeds, Pitt County Courthouse, Greenville,
NC
Provided photocopy of map of Greenville Tobacco Warehouse District, 1913, Map Book 1, p. 35, used in
the
Tobacco
digital history exhibit.
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History
Provided permission to use excerpts from
The
Colonial Records of North Carolina
in the
John Lawson
digital
history exhibit.
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/default.htm
Individuals
Mr. Stephen E. Bradley, Jr.
Provided permission to use excerpts from his
abstracts of
Early Records of North Carolina
in the
John Lawson
digital
history exhibit.
Ms. Betsy Gohdes-Baten
Provided copies of photographs submitted with
the National Register nomination for the Tobacco Warehouse District in
Greenville, NC. These are used in the
Tobacco
digital history exhibit.
Levis Allen Churchill
Provided transcription of name, race, and family number for each head of household in the 1900 Pitt County census. We used these three categories of information to start our full census effort that now includes over forty categories of information for every person in the 1900 Pitt County census.
Marjorie Hudson
Provided permission to use her article "Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, and Writer," from the
North
Carolina Literary Review
, in the
John Lawson
digital history exhibit. In April 2002, she published
Searching for Virginia Dare: A Fool’s Errand
.
Roger Kammerer
Provided permission to use the rendering of the cupola used in the Eastern North Carolina Digital History Exhibits collage.
E.Thompson Shields
Provided
permission to use his article
Paradise Regained Again: The Literary Context of John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina
,from the
North Carolina Literary Review
, in the
John
Lawson
digital history exhibit.
http://www.ecu.edu/english/profiles/shields.htm
or
http://www.ecu.edu/rcro/
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tucker, Greenville, NC
Provided original photo, used in the
ECU Centennial
digital history exhibit,of five young students from the opening years at the Eastern Normal.
Libraries, Museums, and Universities
Joyner Library, Greenville, NC
The bulk of the items were digitized from
holdings in Joyner Library's Manuscripts and Rare Books (including the University
Archives, the East Carolina Manuscript Collection, and the Rare Book
Collection), the North Carolina Collection, and the General Stacks.
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Provided permission to use tobacco drawing by
Ms. Nicholas Jose Rapun in the
Eastern North Carolina Digital History
Exhibits
collage, for which they hold copyright.
http://www.nypl.org/
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
At the request of Joyner Library in 2001, the
Picture Library of The Natural History Museum in London digitized the herbarium
specimens collected by John Lawson to be used in the
John Lawson
digital
history exhibit. The museum has provided permission for Joyner Library to use
these images for educational purposes including in our
Eastern North
Carolina Digital History Exhibits
. East Carolina University's College of
Arts and Sciences funded the cost of the initial imaging by the Picture
Library.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Provided scans of the Wright Brothers glass plate negatives.
http://www.loc.gov/
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Provided scans of Wright Brothers images.
http://www.wright.edu/
Newspapers and Periodicals
The Daily Reflector
, Greenville, NC
Provided original bound volumes of the 1894 and
1895
Eastern Reflector
used in the
Tobacco
digital history exhibit.
http://www.reflector.com/
North Carolina Literary
Review
Provided permission to use two articles from the 1992 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review in the
John Lawson
digital history exhibit. More articles on Lawson appear in the September 2002 issue of the North Carolina Literary Review
http://www.ecu.edu/nclr/