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: 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: Charles O’Hagan Laughinghouse Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #267 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Charles O’Hagan Laughinghouse (1871-1930), a native of Pitt County, North Carolina, worked as a physician in Greenville from 1893, when he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school, until his untimely death. Locally, he served for many years [...]
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: James N. Joyner Papers, 1923-1954, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #429 Staff Person: Maury York Description: James Noah Joyner (1888-1972), the son of James Yadkin and Effie (Rouse) Joyner, worked for the British-American Tobacco Company in China from 1912 until 1935. Managing sales of cigarettes made by B.A.T., he traveled extensively and lived in [...]
Source: Dig We Must! – Into the Coal Operators’ Profits!, Hoover HD8039.M615 D5 1970 Staff Person: Maury York Description: With the approach of May Day, the Special Collections Department features the cover of a pamphlet published in 1970 by the Coal Commission of Communist Party, U.S.A. The pamphlet is part of the Hoover Collection on [...]
Source: Guide to the Clarence Leroy Shuping Papers, 1920-1975, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #553 Staff Person: Maury York Description: Letter of Clarence Leroy Shuping concerning Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Campaign in North Carolina, May 14, 1932 Clarence Leroy Shuping (1886-1971), a native of Rowan County, North Carolina, practiced law in Greensboro for many years following his [...]
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 [...]
Source: Guide to the Capus Miller Waynick Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This photograph from the Capus Miller Waynick Papers in the East Carolina Manuscript Collection shows Waynick (right) with Anastasio Somoza, the military dictator who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 until he was assassinated in 1956. Waynick (1889-1986), a [...]
Source: Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiae . . . , Joyner Rare F229.B78 1590 Staff Person: Maury York Description: This engraving depicts the Native American village of Secotan, located somewhere along the Pamlico River, at the time of Walter Raleigh’s 1585-86 colonization effort. Two important members of this colony were [...]