Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Sarah Blakeslee (1912-2005) studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1936 she married her former teacher at the PAFA, Francis Speight. The Speights moved from [...]
Source: Lucy Cherry Crisp Papers, 1794-1972, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #154 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Lucy Cherry Crisp (1899-1977), a native of Edgecombe County, N.C., studied music at the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina and later studied at Boston University, Columbia University, and Radcliffe College. During her career she taught music, [...]
Source: Overcash-Wright Literary Collection: A. R. Ammons Papers, 1935, 1937, 1944-1988, 2007, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #1096 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Through the generosity of Reid and Susan Overcash of Raleigh and East Carolina University’s Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, the Joyner Library acquired in 2007 an important collection of the papers of [...]
Source: Inglis Fletcher Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection 21.17.e Staff Person: Maury York Description: The image on this Christmas card was drawn by William Meade Prince (1893-1951), an illustrator and author who lived in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A native of Roanoke, Virginia, Prince studied art at the New York School of Fine and Applied [...]