Source: Guide to the Daily Reflector Negative Collection, ca. 1920-1967, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #741 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image shown above (1951) is of two men in a cart drawn by a mule with the purpose of persuading voters to cast their ballots for Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 Presidential Election. The [...]
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Saunders Family Collection, 1941-1945, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #964 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The image that is shown is a V-mail Easter greeting dated April 7, 1943 from Staff Sgt. Jack Mitchell to his wife in Bedford, Virginia. Sgt. Mitchell sent the card while stationed in England. The item [...]
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Carroll H. Leggett Collection, 1970-1990, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #856 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, an event of great historical significance because he is the first African American to be elected to the office. Another historical [...]
Source: U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records Collection, 1939-1997 East Carolina Manuscript Collection #559 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is well known for providing service to the public by doing boat inspections, teaching seamanship classes, and helping the Coast Guard patrol the waterways. But what the public may not [...]
Source: Jan Sellers Coward Collection, undated, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, #1112 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The photograph shown above, taken probably in the 1960s by Jan Sellers Coward, is of the Cromwell family graveyard near the former site of Cromwell Hall, which is now lost. The Cromwell graveyard is located between Greenville and Tarboro, [...]
Source: David B. Stevens Papers, 1943-1946, 1973-1988, undated; East Carolina Manuscript Collection #779 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: Jesse Helms (1921-2008) was a five-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina and a member of the Republican Party. He is well known for the great influence he had over both state and national politics during his Senatorial [...]
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the E. Frank Stephenson, Jr., Collection, 1736-1981, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #692 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: This remarkable invention, which was a revolving battery gun with a firing capacity of 250 rounds per minute invented in 1865, was the creation of a Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling who was born on [...]
Source: Frank Spencer Briggs Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #781 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The Yukon Gold Rush or the Klondike Gold Rush, as it was sometimes known, was the frenzied migration of people to Dawson City, Yukon near the Klondike River in Alaska for the prospecting of gold in the late nineteenth century. [...]
Source: Preliminary Inventory of the Alpheus W. Drinkwater Collection, 1875-1997, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #805 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: Andy Griffith is a well-known actor who was born and bred in North Carolina and who is famous for his roles in two popular TV shows, The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s and Matlock [...]
Source: Guide to the John Graham Johns Papers, 1921-1955, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #410 Staff Person: Nanette Hardison Description: The two images shown are from the John Graham Johns Papers, which is a collection of material that comes from John Graham Johns’ attendance in the Navy Academy and his service in the Navy from 1921-1955. [...]