Source: Frank M. Wooten, Jr., Papers (Manuscript Collection #126) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These two postcards were sent from Beaufort, N.C., in July of 1911 to Mrs. Julia Wooten of Greenville, N.C., from Pattie. Perhaps Pattie was staying at the Inlet Inn pictured on one of the postcards, and she probably wore one of [...]
Source: Laupus Health Sciences History Collection Staff Person: Matt Reynolds Description: This late 19th Century advertising card for E.S. Wells Rough on Rats vermin extermination powder depicts a peeved family chasing a variety of pests from their home. The powder, which contained a mixture of arsenic and ground coal was said to “clear out rats, [...]
Source: Elihu A. White Papers, #14.11.a (P-14/6) Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This photograph of Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia dates from the 1870s. It’s name derives from the fact that it was originally built in 1770-1773 to serve as a meeting hall for the Carpenters’ Companies of the City and County of Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest [...]
Source: John B. Green Collection #380.1.a Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This early combat photograph taken by an American sailor shows the first of approximately 2,300 sailors and marines from the South Atlantic Fleet and the 2nd Advanced Base Regiment landing at Veracruz, Mexico in the predawn hours of 21 April 1914. Two other marine [...]
Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers #480 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: New Bern was founded in 1710 and is North Carolina’s second oldest town. This post card, bearing a 1908 postmark, depicts a downtown view of New Bern including Christ Episcopal Church, the Courthouse, Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, the Post Office and the First Baptist [...]
Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #275 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown is a postcard of a dance held in the Lumina Dancing Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. The postcard, dated around the early 1900s, shows couples wearing the fashion of that time period. This along with other postcards and [...]
Source: Blanche Hardee Rives Papers, 1905-1974, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #335 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images below are holiday postcards for Thanksgiving and Christmas from the Blanche Hardee Rives Papers http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0335/. The Christmas Card was sent to Z.A. Dawsey Hardee, the brother of Blanche Hardee Rives, on 22 December 1913. Blanche Hardee Rives [...]
Source: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #275 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This postcard depicts the Pitt County Courthouse prior to its destruction by fire in 1910. Located on the site of the present courthouse (Third and Evans streets in Greenville), the building was designed by Dabney Cosby (1779-1862), who apparently moved to [...]
Source: Tabitha Marie DeVisconti Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #480 Staff Person: Maury York Description: National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C. This post card depicts the National Bank Building, which was constructed between 1911 and 1916 by the firm of Higgs, Hardee, and Laughinghouse at Five Points in Greenville. Five Points was the intersection of Fifth [...]
Source: Gracie Fulk Collection, 1909-1925, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #938 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: The images shown below are Valentine’s Day postcards received by Gracie Fulk in 1924. These and many other postcards can be seen in collection #938 in the Special Collections Department at Joyner Library at http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0938/. The collection consists of [...]