Source: We Choose America, Hoover E 169.1.W5x Staff Person: Ralph Scott Description: We Choose America was East Carolina University’s literary contribution to the 1976 American bi-centennial. Written at the height of the Cold War, the volume pokes fun at Communism using the American view of perceived differences between life in the Soviet Union and the [...]
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: University Archives (digital image being accessioned) Staff Person: L.K. Gypsye Legge Description: Last week we enjoyed delightful weather in Eastern North Carolina. Thursday, the 24th of April was sunny and warm, but breezy enough to make an afternoon outside a delight even without a festival of fun for its own sake. Happily, Pirates and [...]
Source: University Archives UW0000/2/4/7.1 Staff Person: L. K. Gypsye Legge Description: It is impossible to predict what may appear next in Special Collections. A phone call was made one afternoon to the Search Room desk. On the line was a woman who lives in Jackson, Mississippi. Her great-aunt was an alumna of East Carolina, and [...]
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, [...]
Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #741 Staff Person: Dale Sauter Description: The image below was taken in December 1958 for use in a Daily Reflector article related to businesses that are open on Christmas Day. I viewed the actual article on microfilm, but was unable to find details on which theater [...]
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: Moore Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #275 Charles O’Hagan Laughinghouse Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #267 Edgerton Family Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #361 Staff Person: Brian Johnson Description: This document is a NOTICE OF CALL AND ORDER TO APPEAR FOR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION issued by the Local Board for the County of Pitt, [...]
Source: Frank Wooten Jr, Papers, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #126 David A. Norris Collection, East Carolina Manuscript Collection #687 Staff Person: Coleen Allen Description: The white building was Greenville’s original hospital know as Pitt Community Hospital, and was located on Johnston Street, parallel to East Fourth St. When the hospital opened in 1924, it had [...]
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 [...]