Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The City of Greenville in 1958 used talking trash cans to encourage residents to keep streets and sidewalks clean. This one was located near Five Points–the intersection of Fifth Street, Evans Street, and Dickinson Avenue.
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741.26.a.7 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Father Maurice Tew came to Greenville from West Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1935 to assist the priest at St. Peter’s Catholic Church. Charged with the responsibility of ministering to African Americans in the city, Father Maurice spearheaded the construction of a [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Image Collection (East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741.10.e.14) Staff person: Matt Reynolds Description: This is an image of Pitt County’s second bookmobile from the spring of 1956. Essentially operating as mobile libraries, bookmobiles were used to deliver books and other materials to areas that did not have traditional library buildings. These programs were especially effective in granting [...]
Source: North Carolina Collection (Uncataloged Rare Materials) Staff Person: Fred W. Harrison Description: War officially reached the port town of Washington in March 1862, with the arrival of Federal troops escorted by the gunboat Picket. According to one account, “two companies and a band marched from the wharf to the courthouse playing national aires.” As evidenced by [...]
Source: #1169.5 Wright Collection/ Randall Jarrell Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: The Randall Jarrell Papers are dated 1913 to 1989. The manuscript collection includes correspondence, essays, manuscripts, printed poems, notes, original art, AV materials and books. He was an American poet of distinction, author and educator. Some of [...]
Source: UA50.05.01 – East Carolina Teachers College News, December 8, 1924. Staff Person: Kacy Guill Description: In the 1920s, East Carolina Teachers College students were only given one day off from classes for the Thanksgiving holiday and most students spent the day on campus. Special events for students usually included a Thanksgiving service, special readings, [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: According to NOAA, Hurricane Donna is the only hurricane on record to produce hurricane-force winds along the entire Atlantic Coast of the U.S. The 1960 hurricane reached Eastern North Carolina on September 11th when it made landfall at Topsail Island. Although the Outer Banks [...]
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 the Imperial Tobacco Company factory. Many other images related to tobacco production from the field, to the barns, to the warehouse, and finally to the [...]
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The image shown is of an article titled, “Baseball Has Come Long Way At College” by Lloyd Whitfield. It was printed in the May 11, 1951 issue of the Teco Echo, ECU’s campus newspaper. The article describes the first 20 years of baseball at ECU. This and [...]
Source: University Archives Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: With the start of the 77th football season for East Carolina University we can take a look back at how it all started. The image from the 1933 Tecoan and the article from the October 9, 1932 Teco Echo below represent the first football team’s origin, its [...]