Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: This image of children wading in Bogue Sound at Morehead City, N.C., is from a postcard mailed to Miss Lucy Warren Myers of Greensboro, N.C., and was postmarked 1908. The location depicted is of the pier behind the Atlantic Hotel [...]
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 [...]
Source: John W. Warner Papers, 1947-1986, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #519 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: “Pitch a Boogie Woogie” was the first movie made by a North Carolina-based production company. It featured an all-African American cast of mostly Greenville, N.C., performers and was released in 1948 by Lord-Warner Pictures, Inc. Though successful in North [...]
Source: Guide to the William E. Elmore Collection, 1821-1948, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Flooding is common in eastern North Carolina. Below are two shots of high water at Kinston, N.C., taken on October 6, 1924, by M. S. Croom of Croom’s Picture Shop, 206 East Street in Kinston, [...]
Source: Lawrence-Gulley General Store Records, 1903-1954, East Carolina Manuscript Collection Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: General store records are usually sizable collections which contain many cash books and ledgers. They contain a wealth of information concerning what items people were normally buying in a specific time period and how much these items cost. They can [...]
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: George A. Holderness, Jr. Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #672 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: The celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va., was just held on May 11th, 12th and 13th, 2007. For the non-Virginians or non-historians reading this, I will point out that Jamestown is considered the first [...]
Source: University Archives, UW0000/2 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Since this week commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of East Carolina University, it seemed appropriate for this week’s staff pick to be two photographs that are related to the early years of ECU’s existence. The people in these photographs are standing on Fifth Street [...]
Source: Inglis Fletcher Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #21 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: Ada Delutuk was an Eskimo born in Alaska in 1898 who was raised from the age of about ten by missionaries in Nome. By 1921 she was divorced from Jack Blackjack and had temporarily placed her sick child Bennett in an [...]
Source: William E. Elmore Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #39 Staff Person: Martha Elmore Description: The image below is possibly of Kinchen Wiley Cobb of Greenville, N.C. According to a sketch written by his son Charles D. Cobb, Sr., in the Chronicles of Pitt County North Carolina (1982), Kinchen Cobb became Supervisor of the Greenville [...]