Source: William H. Rowland Papers, 1861-2006, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #876.17.x Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This is a photograph of Kinston, N.C.-born (1955) basketball star Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell, who played college basketball at UNC Charlotte and then went on to star with the Boston Celtics, 1977-1985. The photograph shows Maxwell on a visit to [...]
Source: David Balcombe Papers, East Carolina Manuscipt Collection Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: These 6 black and white photographs are from the David Balcombe Papers (Manuscript Collection #1140.1.i). They were taken in India in June 1915, when Balcombe was a private in H Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Queen’s West Surrey Territorial Regiment. The West Surreys [...]
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: Capus Miller Waynick Papers, 1775 [1932-1966]-1980, undated; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #421 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This 1964 photograph is from the Capus Miller Waynick Papers (P-421/1346) and is one of several in the collection showing anti-civil rights demonstrators in High Point, North Carolina. It was taken at the height of the conflict [...]
Source: Gazette of the United States Collection, 1790, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #873 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This particular issue of The Gazette of the United States from January 1790 is of special interest to North Carolinians. Page 314 of The Gazette (shown above, right hand page) includes a letter from President Washington announcing [...]
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: Quentin Gregory Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #200 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: This is a photograph of Enfa Zhou, leader of a gang of Manchurian guerilla outlaws, prior to his execution by the Chinese Government, on 8 March 1907 [according to the Chinese lunar calendar]. The captions printed in Chinese characters on the [...]
Source: George Willcox Mclver Papers (Addition #6), East Carolina Manuscript Collection #251 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: The Carolina Wildcat insignia displayed here is a reproduction of the shoulder patches worn by Headquarters units of the 81st Infantry Division during World War I. Although the division included troops from Florida, Puerto Rico, and New York [...]
Source: Wilbur Kenneth Bragg Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #1100 Staff Person: Jonathan Dembo Description: Buzz Bomb Attack 1944 The attached images are from a private scrapbook compiled by Sgt. Wilbur Kenneth Bragg during World War II. During the war, Bragg served as a photographer in the 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, which was stationed [...]
Source: City of Greenville Police Department Records, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1076 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: This image is from a collection of public relations slides produced by the Greenville Police Department, ca. 1961-1970, City of Greenville Police Department Records #1076.1.b.3.118 [finding aid not yet available]. This slide shows a squad of 13 gas-masked, [...]