Special Collections Staff Picks

  Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection (Manuscript Collection #741) Staff Person: Maury York Description: Hurricane Hazel, a Category 4 storm, hit North Carolina on the morning of October 15, 1954. It cut a wide path of destruction in eastern and central North Carolina before heading up the East Coast to Canada. Hazel caused some 19 [...]

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, #741.29.d.20 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison This image dated April 8, 1963 is of Edward R. Murrow, an American broadcast journalist, who was a pioneer in television news journalism. A native of Guilford County, North Carolina, Murrow gained recognition for his radio broadcasts during WWII and for later TV news reports that [...]