Source: Pittman – Coffield Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1135.1.f Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: Although greeting cards are normally not considered of great historical value, they can offer insight into the thought processes of people as well as a look at the types of greeting cards that were circulating during a given time period. [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, 741.38.a.96 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Children trick or treating on Evans Street in downtown Greenville, October 1965.
Source: The Minges Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1136 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This collection documents the Minges family’s involvement in the manufacture of soft drinks, including Pepsi-Cola, in North Carolina. The materials in the collection date from the 1890′s to 1992 and focus on the development of Pepsi-Cola. Caleb Davis Bradham, born in [...]
Source: The William H. & Araminta Guilford Tripp Papers, 1849-1911, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #614 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: William H. and Araminta Guilford Tripp were married in 1853 and lived on Mount Hope farm on the Pamlico River in Beaufort County. William H. Tripp was a member of the North Carolina House of [...]
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: Guide to the George Leland Dyer Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #340 Staff Person: Maury York Description: The Chinese New Year is one of that country’s most important holidays. It begins on the first day of the first lunar month, in late January or early February. In 1903, Commander George Leland Dyer, a U.S. [...]
Source: Guide to the Hackett Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #176 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Dr. A. A. Scroggs of Wilkesboro, N.C. in Wilkes County, wrote to his future partner in medical practice Dr. Robert Franklin “Frank” Hackett on December 26, 1848. Dr. Hackett was then at Jefferson College in Philadelphia finishing his [...]
Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These postcard images depict the departure of President Theodore Roosevelt’s carriage from the White House and the newly sworn in President William H. Taft and his wife Helen Herron Taft riding in a carriage in Taft’s inauguration parade from the [...]
Source: William Blount Rodman Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #329 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Washington Park is on a peninsula of land adjoining Washington, N.C., on the east. The land was sold to John Humphrey Small, Sr., in 1839 and was the property of his son U.S. Representative John H. Small, Jr., at the [...]