Source: Frank M. Wooten, Jr., Papers (Manuscript Collection #126) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: These two postcards were sent from Beaufort, N.C., in July of 1911 to Mrs. Julia Wooten of Greenville, N.C., from Pattie. Perhaps Pattie was staying at the Inlet Inn pictured on one of the postcards, and she probably wore one of [...]
Source: E. C. Winslow Records (Manuscript Collection #1174) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: About 3000 Italian prisoners of war were sent to Camp Butner, just outside of Durham, N.C., in September 1943 where they were engaged in work projects. Out of this group about 500 men each were sent to branch camps in Tarboro, Windsor, [...]
Source: William E. and Marion B. Stewart Papers (Manuscript Collection #707) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: U.S. Navy officer William E. Stewart and his wife Marion visited China and the Philippines in the late 1930s. While there they took many photographs and bought other photographs which they collected into two albums–one for each country. This [...]
Source: William Moore Family Papers (Manuscript Collection #596) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: As often happens in time of war, the Confederate States of America helped to finance the expenses incurred in the Civil War by issuing bonds. In this example, a $100 bond is issued on March 2, 1863 (in compliance with the February [...]
Source: Grady T. Davis, Sr. Papers (Manuscript Collection #1187) Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: This photograph of Main Street, looking north, in Windsor, N.C., is one of eight photographs (size 8″ x 6″) mounted on cardboard taken of Windsor street scenes, buildings, and the Confederate Monument around 1910. The photographer is unknown, but the photographs were probably [...]
Source: Elihu A. White Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #14 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Elihu A. White (1824-1900) of Belvidere in Perquimans County, N.C., was a Quaker farmer and business leader. He served in local government positions, was active in the Republican Party and was appointed collector of Internal Revenue under two U.S. presidents. [...]
Source: Herman H. Duncan Collection #921 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: This photograph of the 1922 Greenville High School (Greenville, North Carolina) Baseball Team was used in the Greenville High School 1922 yearbook “The Tau.” Kneeling team members from left to right are identified as Richard Williams, Wesley Harvey, Douglas West, Frank Harrington, Berry [...]
Source: Edward Merritt McEachern, Jr., Collection #25.2.c Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: The Keeley Institute in Greensboro, N.C., was established circa 1891 and it survived until 1961. From 1906 on the Institute operated at Blandwood, the former home of N.C. Governor John Motley Morehead. The Greensboro location was just one of over more than 200 [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.33.b.4 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: In Greenville, N.C., before the era of quick electronic vote tabulations for election results, people used to wait outside the Daily Reflector office and watch as vote tallies were posted and updated on the tally board. This June 1964 photograph shows the vote tally being adjusted while citizens [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: According to NOAA, Hurricane Donna is the only hurricane on record to produce hurricane-force winds along the entire Atlantic Coast of the U.S. The 1960 hurricane reached Eastern North Carolina on September 11th when it made landfall at Topsail Island. Although the Outer Banks [...]