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Record #:
5467
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Snow L. and B. W. C. Roberts of Durham have donated over eleven hundred works of fiction to the North Carolina Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University. What makes this collection unique is that all the books are set partially or wholly in North Carolina. The volumes date from 1830 to the present and contain a number of rare works.
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19827
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In May 2001, Snow L. and B.W.C. Roberts of Durham donated approximately 1,100 works of fiction, written between 1830 and the present, to the North Carolina Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University. The donated collection only contains books related to North Carolina.
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Record #:
36031
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Buccaneer was the yearbook, back in print after a fifteen-year hiatus. Buccaneer was also the second incarnation of East Carolina University’s yearbook. The first version, published when ECU was East Carolina Teacher’s College, was the Tecoan, short for Teacher’s College Annual.
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36039
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Being planned was ECU’s Centennial celebration, which would take place between 2007-2009. Endeavors commemorating the event included Henry Ferrell’s Promises Kept. An example of a historical highlight for ECU’s century long development was a quote from the 1908 groundbreaking event speech made by the regarded father of ECU, Thomas Jordan Jarvis.
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36050
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The menagerie of movers and shakers in Greenville were profiled in this snapshot in words of how East Carolina University came to be. Accompanying the snapshot in words was a copy of the actual snapshot assembling those twenty-two individuals, taken on July 2, 1908.
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36052
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The title could also describe the era in which the profiled photos were taken. One featured six of the eighteen students with an instrument popular during the decade. The other showed students who could hold their own on either side of the steering wheel. The photos, just like the accompanied text, proved Wilson County club members aptly represented college students and young women the country over.
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36053
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A collection of music arranged by Alice Morgan Person in the 19th century may have stayed hidden, were it not for Harry Stubbs IV cleaning out the family home’s attic. From her great great-grandson’s archival contribution, items once bound by space have been digitalized, thus no longer bound by time.