Special Collections Staff Picks

Source: U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #1041 Staff Person: Jon Dembo Description: This digital image shows two sailing vessels, the CONSTITUTION of Manteo and the ETNER of New Bern, in the waters of Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. The ETNER, the two-masted vessel to starboard, may be in some difficulty or [...]

Source: William H. Rowland Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #876 Staff Person: Lynette Lundin Description: This photograph is from Collection #876/12 William H. Rowland Papers (1861-1971). The Hull remnant was of the Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS NEUSE. It was set on fire by Confederate troops to prevent being captured in March of 1865. It was [...]