Source: John B. Green Collection #380.2.b Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Seen in the photograph above are four, unnamed, concrete-hulled river steamers at the Newport Shipping Corporation shipyard, in New Bern, North Carolina. They are obviously incomplete and unnamed. Built to solve the desperate shortage of steel for shipping during World War I, they were [...]
Source: William N. Still, Jr. Papers (#139) East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: Featured are two undated photographs of onsite trailers serving as living quarters for factory workers and their families for World War II-era shipbuilding workers. These workers were employed at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation’s yards at Wilmington, North Carolina.
Source: Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: This image offers a nice view of the Barbour Boat Works factory in New Bern, North Carolina. The business ended in the mid-1980s. Included in the Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records are important ship drawings, correspondence and photos. We plan to add descriptions of all [...]
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Albert Parker Niblack Collection, 1876-1942; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1080 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This 1882 cabinet card shows portraits of 17 officers inset around a photograph of their ship, the USS LACKAWANNA. Captain Henry Wilson is featured in the center of the top row between his higher ranking [...]
Source: Barbour Boat Works, Inc. Records, 1943-1998, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #758 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: One collection that has lately proven quite popular with researchers is the Barbour Boat Works Inc. Records. Many of the requests we have received are from owners of an original Barbour boat who, with plans of restoring [...]
Source: Frank A. Armstrong, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #35 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The photograph below is one of the most famous in any of our collections. It shows Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966) signing the Instrument of Surrender on board the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) during the formal ceremony [...]
Source: U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #559 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Special Collections in Joyner Library is the official repository for the records of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. The Auxiliary was established by Congress in 1939 as a way for owners of motorboats and yachts to volunteer their services [...]
Source: A.M. Handley Journal, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1064 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is a pen and ink sketch of the HMS BUCTON CASTLE, a three-masted sailing ship. It was drawn on the inside front cover of his journal by one of her passengers, Capt. A. M. Handley. An officer in the British [...]
Source: Marietta Manufacturing Company Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #742 Staff Person: Emily Blankenship Description: The Marietta Manufacturing Company records were officially donated to the Special Collections Department in the spring of 1997. A team of four library staff and students traveled to West Virginia to obtain the records. After spending two days retrieving over [...]
Source: John L. Porter Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #850 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: Attached is an original pen & ink sketch of the MERRIMAC (sic), the famous Confederate ironclad ram. The sketch was made in 1862 by Naval Constructor John Luke Porter (1831-1893) who had helped convert her into the first ironclad warship. [...]