Vertical File Collection

1783-1991,2015, undated
Manuscript Collection #936
Portions of this collection are digitized (2 items)
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Creator(s)
Munford, C. T.; Munson, Elmer B. (Barry); Gooch, Ginger; Bruton, Winnie Davis ; Bennehan, Rebecca; Heckt, Melvin D.; District of Columbia
Physical description
1.70 Cubic Feet, 45.3 Megabytes, 2 document cases, a flat box, a shoebox and 1 oversize folder
Preferred Citation
Vertical File Collection (#936), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
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ECU Manuscript Collection
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This collection is open for research. Original audiovisual media and digital files are unavailable for use. Please contact Special Collections for access copies.

The Vertical File Collection contains individual items that don't fit into existing collections. There is no overall theme or subject connecting them. Items included vary from photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, advertising materials, programs, negatives, and postcards to land grants, genealogy notes, and a music transcription book. Inclusive dates are 1792-2016.

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Custodial History

September 9, 2003, (unprocessed) 81 items, 0.9 cubic feet; Collection (1839-1991) of printed materials, including broadsides, pamphlets, periodicals, advertising materials, programs, books, leaflets, etc. relating to the biography and history of North Carolina and the South, arranged according to subject matter and drawn from various manuscript collections. See preliminary inventory attached.

November 11, 2003, (unprocessed addition 1) 2 items, 0.001 cubic feet; Photographic negatives (undated) of two scenes with two adjacent stone buildings on a tree-lined urban street, possibly in Kinston, North Carolina. Black & white. 2 copies of each negative. 12" x 10". Donor: Anonymous

June 15, 2005, (unprocessed addition 2) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Broadside (1853) The Key to the Mysteries of Mormonism. Color print. 18" x 12" New York, NY: I Van Deusen and Maria his Wife, 1853. Note: Filed oversized. Print illustrates doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church). Signed "Thomas Spring [?]" verso. Transferred from Laupus Library, ECU, by Ruth Moskop, Greenville, NC.

August 11, 2006, (unprocessed addition 3) 2 items, 0.001 cubic feet; Collection (1920-1939, 1958-1975) of genealogical records from the Tyndall and Daniel families bibles. Donor: Donald C. McLane, III

August 11, 2006, (unprocessed addition 4) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; License No. 1434 (9/20/1949) from the City of Greenville, North Carolina for the firm to operate a warehouse for Star No. 1 & No. 2 ($100.00) and Gold Leaf ($50.00) tobacco, located on 9th Street, for the year ending 6/30/1950; signed by H. H. Duncan, tax collector. Printed form. Donor: John D. Carter

December 7, 2006, (unprocessed addition 5) 1 item, 0.01 cubic feet; Ledger (1783) of an unidentified English mercantile firm recording credits and debits relating to cargoes of broadcloth, fustians, flax, Indian chintz, linen, sugar, sundries, etc. and expenses of voyages of the ships CHARLOTTE, COBHAM, ELIZABETH, FANNY, ISABELLA, RACHEL, SARAH, TAY VERNON, etc. to America, Boston, Hamburg, Jamaica, Leith, Lisbon, Madeira, Perth, & Rotterdam, etc.; also expenses for outfitting, warehouse duties & insurance, etc. Donor: Neill A. Lindsay, III

July 24, 2015, (unprocessed addition 6) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Program (1927?) for the movie "The Jazz Singer" being shown at the Colonial Theatre in Harrisburg (Pennsylvania?). Donor: Deede Allen

July 24, 2015, (unprocessed addition 7) 1 item, 0.05 cubic feet; Included is a land grant to James Nunn from the State of North Carolina for a tract in Lenoir Co., North Carolina. The land grant was signed by Governor Thomas Bragg in 1856. Donor: Frank and Ann Taylor via Mike Taylor

July 24, 2015, (unprocessed addition 8) 1 item, 0.005 cubic feet; China Inland Mission Calendar (1939) created by the China Inland Mission which was founded in 1865 by the Rev. J. Hudson Taylor with the purpose of bringing the Christian Gospel teachings to the inhabitants of inland China. Purchased from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, Wilmington, Delaware, with funds from the Elizabeth Price Crockford Missionary and Church History Endowment

January 11, 2016, (unprocessed addition 9) 5 items, 0.005 cubic feet; Included are an undated black and white photograph of the plane Enola Gay autographed by Paul Tibbets; a 1946 snapshot of B-17s at Kingman (Arizona) Army Air Force Field in the "Boneyard;" an undated (ca. 1990) color photograph of the USS Kitty Hawk autographed by Capt. D. L. Rainey, Jr., and an information sheet on the USS Kitty Hawk; and a Wright Brothers National Memorial (at Kitty Hawk, NC) postcard signed by Capt. D. L. Rainey, Jr., and by Edwards Park (author and WWII fighter pilot) on December 17, 1990. Donor: Joseph Hardman.

January 12, 2016, (unprocessed addition 10) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Undated postcard of St. Gabriel's Colored Mission in Greenville, North Carolina, when Rev. Fr. C. P. Maurice was pastor. Donor: Bryan Dale Sauter.

January 12, 2016, (unprocessed addition 11) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Included is a pamphlet titled Valuable Standard Works, on Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, Chemistry, etc., printed in London, in February 1837, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman of Paternoster Row. Donor: Victor T. Jones, Jr.

January 13, 2016, (unprocessed addition 12) 1 item, 0.001 cubic feet; Addition includes a card containing a damaged photograph of Lillian Campbell against a background of Christmas decorations of holly leaves and berries. Campbell is identified as a teacher in 1912 at the Greenville Graded School in Greenville, North Carolina. Donor: William E. "Mickey" Elmore.

January 13, 2016, (unprocessed addition 13) 3 items, 0.005 cubic feet; This addition includes three documents related to Ginger Gooch's missionary work in Limuru, Kenya, for the Uhuru Child nonprofit organization. The donor, Jill Gooch, is her mother. Donor: Jill Gooch.

January 13, 2016, (unprocessed addition 14) 11 items, 0.007 cubic feet; This addition includes 11 photographs taken by Barry Munson in 1999 of Glencoe Mill buildings in Burlington, North Carolina, before they were restored. Images are of the mill-house, the company store, and the superintendent's house. Donor: Elmer B. "Barry" Munson.

April 5, 2019, (unprocessed addition 15) 1 item, 0.1 cubic feet; Included are pages 819-820 of the December 24, 1864, issue of Harper's Weekly. The subject covered via hand-colored engravings is the Capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, on October 31, 1864. Gift of Richard A. Stephenson.

February 13, 2019, (unprocessed addition 16) 1 item, 0.02 cubic feet;This ca. 1910 cabinet photograph is of the C. T. Munford store located at 402-404 South Evans Street in Greenville (Pitt County), North Carolina. Bought with state funds from Aaron Benneian.

March 31, 2020, (unprocessed addition 17) .25 cubic feet; Included are a photograph album (1907-1917) related to Winnie Davis Bruton and a photograph of a seventh grade class in 1913 in which she is listed as the teacher. Location of the school might be in the area of Montomery Co. (where she was living as a child) or Cumberland Co., North Carolina (where she died). Gift of Michael Heywood.

May 18, 2020, (unprocessed addition 18) 0.05 cubic feet; This addition includes a student music transcription workbook from 1792 containing folk tunes from the British Isles. It belonged to Rebecca Bennehan (1778-1843) who married Duncan Cameron in 1802 in Orange County, North Carolina. Her father Richard, her brother Thomas, and her husband amassed a large plantation of which a small portion is preserved at Stagville Historic Site. Gift of Henry John Ernst III

September 19, 2020, (unprocessed addition 19), 2 items; Post card of Whichard's Beach on the Pamlico River in Washington, N.C., and 1940 post card of highway bridge over the Tar River at Greenville, N.C. Bought with state funds from Robert Dekeukelaere and Hosea2 via ebay.

July 23, 2021, (unprocessed addition 20), 1 item; Receipt (March 17, 1863) for payment of money owed for bread furnished to the Sisters of Mercy in New Bern, N.C., signed by Joseph A. Goldthwait of the 23rd Massachusetts Vol. Infantry, Acting Commissary Subsistence. Purchased from Leland Little Auctions.

July 23, 2021, (unprocessed addition 21), 1 item; Diary kept by Melvin D. Heckt of the 1st Marine Raider BN, 1st BN 4th Marines, 6th Marine Division, while serving in the Pacific Ocean Theatre from December 3, 1943, to September 14, 1945. He was involved in the battles to recapture Guam and Okinawa from the Japanese. Gift of Susan Holland.

April 26, 2022, (unprocessed addition 22), 1 item, .01 cubic feet; Letter (October 8, 1918) from Ross Sparks (?), a soldier stationed at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, writing to his family in Ohio describing life at the camp and mentioning a quarantine. Purchased from Frank Hedge on Ebay.

July 15, 2022, (unprocessed addition 23), 1 item, .10 cubic feet; 1898 Rand, McNally and Co. map of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Malaysia and Korea (14" x 21"; 245 statute miles = 1 inch). Transfer from Joyner Library Government Documents via Ralph Scott.

July 19, 2022, (unprocessed addition 24), 1 item, 0.05 cubic feet; This document is a release from an 1857 promissory note executed between John N. Maffitt of Wilmington, North Carolina, and John C. Kennedy and Allan Pollock of Washington, D.C., for property in Washington. The release was notarized in 1876, and later recorded in 1885 by the abolitionist and former enslaved person Frederick Douglass in his capacity as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. Maffitt was a very successful blockade runner during the Civil War. Purchased from CTM Books and Antiques through AbeBooks.

July 28, 2022, (unprocessed addition 25), 1 item, 0.20 cubic feet; This addition includes a miniature embossed leather album containing twenty-eight gem tintypes probably from the late 1860s through the 1870s. The images are of unidentified men, women and children. Purchased from Leland Little Auctions.

August 29, 2023, (unprocessed addition 26), 1 folder, 0.01 cubic feet; Contract agreement whereby John E. Laughter of Halifax County, North Carolina, agreed to purchase three hundred acres in Brinkleyville Township of Halifax County from J. P. Tyree and his wife Pattie A. Tyree in 1885. Gift of Margaret Tobin.

November 10, 2023, (unprocessed addition 27), 1 folder, 0.01 cubic feet; July 2017 letter written by Louis P. Kerestesy describing his meeting with General Frank Armstrong in Alaska in 1960 at Elmendorf AFB while Kerestesy was an Airman 3rd Class. Also enclosed are photographs of Kerestesy in uniform in 1960, holding an autographed picture of General Armstrong in 1960, and in 2017. Gift of Louis Paul Kerestesy.

November 29, 2023, (unprocessed addition 28), 1 folder, 0.10 cubic feet; Funeral Guest Book (December 28, 1973) for George Michael Williams, Sr., of Goldsboro, North Carolina. Listed as one of his children is Gene Jerome Williams (1948-1996), formerly University Archivist at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Transferred from the office of Gene Williams, University Archivist

November 29, 2023, (unprocessed addition 29), 1 folder, 0.05 cubic feet; Transit Book 366, with printed tables on inside covers for calculating distances from the centers of roadways for cross-sectioning and lined pages for handwritten information, was produced by Keuffel and Esser Co. who also sold drawing materials and surveying instruments. The unknown owner of this book surveyed Greensboro, North Carolina, property related to railroad traverses. Sections are listed with titles like: McIver St. School, Water Works Property, and Colored School. The latter part of the book was used for calculations based on the tables for computation of traverse. The book is not dated, but was probably done in 1902 or later (based on copyright). Gift of Ralph Scott.

Source of acquisition

Anonymous Gift

Transferred from Laupus Library, ECU, by Ruth Moskop, Greenville, NC

Gift of Donald C. McLane, III

Gift of John D. Carter

Gift of Neill A. Lindsay, III

Gift of Deede Allen

Gift of Frank and Ann Taylor

Purchased from Ian Brabner, Rare Americana

Gift of Joseph Hardman

Gift of Bryan Dale Sauter

Gift of Victor T. Jones, Jr.

Gift of William E. "Mickey" Elmore

Gift of Jill Gooch

Gift of Elmer B. "Barry" Munson

Purchased from Aaron Benneian

Gift of Richard A. Stephenson

Gift of Michael Heywood

Gift of Henry John Ernst III

Purchased from AbeBooks

Gift of Susan Holland

Purchased from F. Hedge on Ebay.

Transferred from Joyner Library Government Documents via Ralph Scott

Purchased from CTM Books and Antiques

Purchased from Leland Little Auctions

Gift of Margaret Tobin

Gift of Louis P. Kerestesy

Transfer from Gene Williams, University Archivist, ECU

Gift of Ralph Scott

Processing information

Encoded by Mark Custer, March 10, 2008

Digital materials processed by John Dunning, August 2025

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Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

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Key terms
Family Names
Daniels family
Tyndall family
Corporate Names
Enola Gay (Bomber)
Glencoe Mills
Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier)
Topical
Account books
Buildings--North Carolina--Greenville
Land grants--North Carolina--Lenoir County
Latter Day Saint churches--Doctrines
Missionaries
Places
North Carolina--History
Container list
Box 1 Folder a Timely Facts About Tobacco Profits. Pamphlet. Letter (3/30/1949) from B. T. Sustare, Manager, The American Agricultural Chemical company, Norfolk, VA to Tabitha M. DeVisconti, Farmville, NC. 2 p. 1940
Box 1 Folder b Kimball Farm, Oxford, NC. Leaflet. 1 item. 15 p. 1916
Box 1 Folder c Presentation and Unveiling of Memorial Tablet: Charles Brantly Aycock, Goldsboro, North Carolina, November1, 1929. Program Leaflet. 1 item. 25p
Box 1 Folder d BUNKER, Chang and Eng. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1839 by John M. Elliott in the Clerk's Office for the southern District of N. York. P.A. Mesier, Lithography, NO. 28 Wall Street, N.Y. Siamese Twins. Broadside. 1 item. 1 p. 1839
Box 1 Folder e Liddell Company, Manufacturers of Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton and Yarn Presses, Shafting, Pulleys, Etc., Charlotte, N.C. (New York: Charles F. Bloom, Printer, 1889). 1 item. Pamphlet. Partly used as a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on recipes and medicinal remedies for various diseases
Box 1 Folder f The Gold Dust Twins At Work and Play, as Sketched by the Famous Artist E. W. Kemble. (Chicago: N. K. Fairbank Co., 1902) 1 item. 8 p. Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder g Big Four Warehouse For the Sale of Leaf Tobacco, Carver, Currin & Cozart Proprietors, Durham, N. C., 193_. Blank Receipt form. 1 item . 1 p
Box 1 Folder h C. G. Graves & Co. Corn, Oats, Hay, Flour, Bacon and all Heavy and Fancy Groceries, Carthage, N. C. 191_. Blank letterhead paper. 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder i American Saw Mill Machinery Co., Hackettstown, New Jersey: The Saw Mill and the Tractor in the North Carolina Woods: They Are All American, of Course. 1 item. 1 p
Box 1 Folder j DREWRY, Guy Humphrey Biographical Data Draft. 1 item. 4p. Typescript. Photocopy. Ca. 1973
Box 1 Folder l Sanitary Drinking Cups, Southern School Supply Co., Raleigh, NC. n.d. 1 item. 1 p. Paper drinking cup
Box 1 Folder m Odell's System of Short-Hand (Taylor Improved) (New York: O. A. Roorbach, ca. 1872) 1 item. 42 p. Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder n Ballots. 3 items. 7 p
Box 1 Folder o Statements of Hon. Frank P. Graham of North Carolina in the Senate of the United States: 1. Farewell Statement; 2. Statehood for Hawaii and Alaska; 3 An American National and International Program. Reprinted from the Congressional Record. (Washington, DC: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950). 1 item. 37 p
Box 1 Folder p "Grimesland" A Story from Pitt County's Past Prepared for the Pitt County Historical Society, by Joseph W. Congleton, Jr., May 19, 1977. Photocopy Typescript. 1 item. 8 p
Box 1 Folder q Greenville Drug Co. J. Key Brown, Druggist. Prescription delivery envelope. 1 item. 1 p. N.d
Box 1 Folder r Goodson & Flanagan, Greenville, North Carolina advertising fan. 1 item. 3 p
Box 1 Folder s Memoir of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. (Mary Ann Morrison) Mecklenburg Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Charlotte, N.C. (1915) 1 item. 14 p. Pamphlet
Box 1 Folder t Stonewall Jackson: Sketch of the life of Stonewall Jackson written by Mrs. Emil Shaffer, nee Miss Anna Jackson Preston, and presented to the Senate on May 10, 1928, by Hon. Cole L. Blease, Senator from South Carolina [Reprinted from Senate Document No. 173, Seventieth Congress] 74th Congress 2d Session, Senate, Document No. 148 (Washington, DC: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1936.) 1 item, 4 p
Box 1 Folder u Two Historic Shrines: the Wright Memorial on Kill Devil Hill and Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island Price 25 cents. Edited by W. O. Saunders Founder and Past President of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, Secretary of the U. S. Roanoke Colony Commission. (Elizabeth City, NC: W. O. Saunders, c. 1937) Pamphlet. 1 item. 30 p
Box 1 Folder v State Bank & Trust Company, Greenville, N.C. On Guard America. Defense Bond envelope. 1 item. 1 p. (c.1941) Banthrico Inc., Chicago
Box 1 Folder w A Little About Our Usefulness. Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Cor. Third and Main Streets, Winston-Salem., N.C. Pamphlet. 1 item. 10.p c. 1910
Box 1 Folder x The North Carolina Awards. 22nd North Carolina Awards Program, The Raleigh Marriott November 22, 1985. 1 item. 16 p. The North Carolina Awards. 23rd North Carolina Awards Program, The Raleigh Marriott November 22, 1986. 1 item. 16 p
Box 1 Folder y Brief History of the Order of Knights of Pythias. Compiled and promulgated by Supreme Lodge Extension and Educational Commission. Presented to J. Key Brown who was admitted to membership in "Tor Rever [sic]" Tar River Lodge No. 93, Greenville, NC. Pamphlet. 1 item. 16 p. 1914
Box 1 Folder z This is the Hut the "Y" Built. United War Work Campaign, November 11 to 18, 1918, by Bruce Barton; illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg and Louis Ruyl. (National War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A.) Pamphlet. 1 item. 16 p
Box 1 Folder za Woodrow Wilson asks North Carolina to Re-Elect Lee S. Overman Candidate for United States Senator. Campaign leaflet. 1 item. 1 p. 1914
Box 1 Folder zb Headquarters, Moore County Democratic Executive Committee, Carthage, N.C. Blank Letterhead. 1 item. 1 p. n.d
Box 1 Folder zc Invitation to inauguration ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States; Inauguration Ceremonies Program, January 10th, 1961. Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. (2 copies); 1961 Inauguration Ceremonies General Admittance to Preferred Standing Room, East Front of Capitol, Senate Side, Ticket. 5 items. 19 p. 1/20/1961
Box 1 Folder zd The Republic: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Dissemination of Political Information, V. 4, nos. 3,5-6 (March, May, June 1875); v. 5, nos. 1,3,5 (July, Sept., Nov. 1875). Periodical. Published by the Republic Publishing Company, Washington DC. 6 items. 386 p
Box 1 Folder ze Why North Carolina Voted Dry, by Frances Renfrow Doak. Read before a convention of the United Dry Forces in Greensboro, January 16, 1934. (Raleigh, N.C.: Capital Printing Co., 1934). Pamphlet. 1 item. 26p
Box 1 Folder zf Carolina and the Southern Cross: History Not Hatred, Nor Sectional Strife. Dedicated to our busy people who always have time to make history but never time for research. V. 1, no. 8 (October 1913). Periodical. 1 item. 24 p
Box 1 Folder zg Merchants' Protective Union for the Continent from New York to San Francisco: A monthly chronicle of the Merchants' Protective Union, Organized under the laws of the State of New York for the Promotion and Protection of Trade. No. 1 (July 1868) (New York, NY: Merchants Protective Union, 1868). 1 item. 60 p
Box 2 Folder a "Barthram's Dirge, China, A Glance at its Past, its Present, and its Future. . . " Unidentified Periodical, pp. 445-520. Incomplete. 1 item. 75 p. n.d
Box 2 Folder a.2 "The Dead Letters, Narrative of a Poor Seamstress, by M.A. Denison, Part IV, . . . " Aurora, pp. 151-176. Incomplete. 1 item. 25 p. n.d
Box 2 Folder a.3 "What is the Proper Law of Marriage. . . " Aurora, pp. 153-160. Incomplete. 1 item. 7 p. n.d
Box 2 Folder b "Picked Up Here and There" and "Gleanings from the Gullies," (Haw River, NC: J. C. Stutts, c. 1918). Book. 1 item 98 p
Box 2 Folder c Minutes of the 162nd Annual Session of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Association, Held with the church at Bear Grass, Martin County, NC, October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 1927. (Wilson, NC: P.D.Gold Publishing Co., 1927) Pamphlet. 1 item. 12p
Box 2 Folder d First Methodist Church, Wadesboro, NC. Christmas Postcard. (New York, NY: Custom Studios, c. 1961)
Box 2 Folder e Unidentified Methodist Hymnal, pp. 399-734. Incomplete. 1 item. 335 p
Box 2 Folder f The Little Breeze God Sent. A Story of Christmas Consequences, by Ada Melville Shaw. (Nashville, TN: Executive Committee Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S., n.d.) Pamphlet. 1 item. 15 p
Box 2 Folder g Program of the Inaugural Ceremonies, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 2-3, 1969 (Raleigh, NC: Commercial Printing Co., 1969) Pamphlet. 1 item. 16 p
Box 2 Folder h An Address: The Country Lawyer, Delivered at the Twenty-first Annual Session of the North Carolina State Bar Association, at Greensboro, August 6th, 1919, by H. F. Seawell, of Carthage, NC. Pamphlet. 1 item. 22 p
Box 2 Folder i Mary Pickford Company Presents Mary Pickford in her second very own picture from her own studios "The Hoodlum" . . . ; Matinee -- Tonight ADMS 25 c. First National Exhibitors Circuit. Advertising Flyer. 1 item. 2 p. n.d
Box 2 Folder j How to Behave; or, The Spirit of Etiquette. A Complete Guide to Polite Society, for Ladies and Gentlemen. . . . 5th edition rev. enlarged. (New York: O. A. Roorbach, n.d.) Pamphlet. 1 item. 34 p
Box 2 Folder k East Carolina Balloon Race, September 13, 14, & 15 [1985], Eastern Regional Jetport, Kinston, North Carolina. Program. 1 item.26 p
Box 2 Folder l Steam Logging Machinery, by Surry Parker, Pine Town, NC. (Pine Town, NC: Surry Parker, c. 1912) Pamphlet. 1 item 35 p. 2 copies
Box 2 Folder m The Observance of Old Christmas at Swansboro, North Carolina, January 6-7, 1983. Souvenir Booklet. Sponsored by the Music and Drama Subcommittee of Swansboro's 200th Anniversary Celebration Committee. Pamphlet. 1 item. 38p
Box 2 Folder n Norfolk Southern Railroad Company Change of Schedule Effective June 11th 1914 Between Raleigh and Charlotte, Aberdeen and Asheboro, Star and Ellerbe, Carthage and Pinehurst, Raleigh and Fayetteville. Broadside. 1 item. 1 p
Box 2 Folder o Ericsson Line: By River, Lock, and Bay: Pamphlet & Panoramic Map of the Baltimore and Philadelphia [Ericsson Line] Steamboat Company's Route: Philadelphia to Baltimore. 1 item. 16 p. 1897
Box 2 Folder p A Sea Story [about the USS HARTFORD, 1858-1991], by Wesley Sullivan. Typescript. 1 item. 9.p. C. 1991
Box 2 Folder q A Story of a Court-Martial Or, How American Justice was Administered in Havana in 1898, After the French Order, by J. F. Mills, Late of the 1st North Carolina Volunteer Infantry, Cedar Key, FL, April 22, 1900. Pamphlet. 1 item. 11 p
Box 2 Folder r Confederate Veteran, Nashville, TN, v. 5, no. 9 (Sept. 1897), pp. 449-496. Published monthly in the interest of Confederate veterans and kindred topics. Periodical. 1 item. 47 p
Box 2 Folder s United Service Organization [USO] Greenville and Pitt County, NC Guest, Hostess, and Welcome to Greenville Name Tags. 8 items. 8 p. c.1942-1945
Box 2 Folder t Sans Souci Book Club, Greenville, North Carolina Year Book 1939-1940. 1 item. 22 p. 1939
Box 2 Folder u The Woman's Club of Greenville, NC Year Book, 1946-1947. Pamphlet. 1 item 8 p
Box 2 Folder u.2 The Woman's Club of Greenville, NC Year Book, 1952-1953. Pamphlet. 1 item 15 p
Box 2 Folder v Greenville Garden Club [Year Book] 1940-1941. Pamphlet. 1 item. 21 p. 1940
Box 2 Folder v.2 Greenville Garden Club [Year Book] 1941-1942. Pamphlet. 1 item. 16 p. 1941
Box 2 Folder x Collection (1920-1939, 1958-1975) of genealogical records from the Tyndall and Daniel families bibles
Box 2 Folder y License No. 1434 (9/20/1949) from the City of Greenville, North Carolina for the firm to operate a warehouse for Star No. 1 & No. 2 ($100.00) and Gold Leaf ($50.00) tobacco, located on 9th Street, for the year ending 6/30/1950; signed by H. H. Duncan, tax collector
Box 3 Folder a 1910 photograph of C. T. Munford Store, Greenville, North Carolina
Box 3 Folder b Winnie Davis Bruton's photograph album (1907-1917) and 1913 photograph of a seventh grade class Bruton taught.
Box 3 Folder c A student music transcription workbook from 1792 containing folk tunes from the British Isles. It belonged to Rebecca Bennehan (1778-1843) who married Duncan Cameron in 1802 in Orange County, North Carolina.
Box 3 Folder d Post card of Whichard's Beach on the Pamlico River in Washington, N.C., and 1940 post card of highway bridge over the Tar River at Greenville, N.C.
Box 3 Folder e Receipt (March 17, 1863) for payment for bread furnished to the Sisters of Mercy in New Bern, N.C., signed by Joseph A. Goldthwait, 23rd Regiment Massachusetts Vol. Infantry, Acting Commissary Subsistence.
Box 3 Folder f World War II Diary kept by Melvin D. Heckt, 1st Marine Raider BN, 1st BN 4th Marines, 6th Marine Division, from December 3, 1943 to September 14, 1945, while serving in the Pacific Theatre in Guam and Okinawa.
Box 3 Folder g Letter (October 8, 1918) from Ross Sparks (?), a soldier stationed at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North Carolina, writing to his family in Ohio describing life at the camp and mentioning a quarantine.
Box 2 Folder za Program for the movie "The Jazz Singer" being shown at The Colonial Theatre in Harrisburg [PA?], undated
Box 2 Folder zb China Inland Mission Calendar, 1939
Box 2 Folder zc Undated black and white photograph of the plane Enola Gay autographed by Paul Tibbets; 1946 snapshot of B-17s at Kingman (Arizona) Army Air Force Field in the "Boneyard"; undated (ca. 1990) color photograph of the USS Kitty Hawk autographed by Capt. D. L. Rainey, Jr., and an information sheet on the USS Kitty Hawk; and a Wright Brothers National Memorial (at Kitty Hawk, N.C.) postcard signed by Capt. D. L. Rainey, Jr., and by Edwards Park (author and WWII fighter pilot) on December 17, 1990.
Box 2 Folder zd Postcard (undated) of St. Gabriel's Colored Mission in Greenville, North Carolina
Box 2 Folder ze 1837 Pamphlet titled Valuable Standard Works on Medicine, Surgery, Midwifery, Chemistry, etc., published in London, England
Box 2 Folder zf 1912 Greenville Graded School (N.C.) Christmas Card with picture of Seventh Grade Teacher Lillian Campbell
Box 2 Folder zg Materials related to missionary work in Limuru, Kenya, for the Uhuru Child nonprofit organization, 2015-2016
Box 2 Folder zh 11 Photographs of Glencoe Mill Buildings (Burlington, N.C.) taken by Elmer B. "Barry" Munson in 1999 before the buildings were restored
Oversize Folder os1 1856 Land Grant from State of North Carolina (signed by Governor Thomas Bragg) to James Nunn in Lenoir County, N.C.; 1853 broadside (color print) "The Key to the Mysteries of Mormonism"; pages 819-820 of the December 24, 1864, issue of Harper's Weekly including hand-colored engravings of the capture of Plymouth, N.C., on October 31, 1864; 1898 Rand, McNally and Co. Map of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Malaysia, and Korea; and a release from an 1857 promissory note executed between John N. Maffitt of Wilmington, North Carolina, and John C. Kennedy and Allan Pollock of Washington, D.C., for property in Washington, which was recorded in 1885 by the abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his capacity as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.
Box 4 Miniature embossed leather album containing twenty-eight gem tintypes probably from the late 1860s through the 1870s. The images are of unidentified men, women and children.
Box 3 Folder h 1885 contract agreement between John E. Laughter and J. P. Tyree and his wife Pattie A. Tyree of Halifax County, North Carolina, related to the sale of three hundred acres in Brinkleyville Township of Halifax County.
Box 3 Folder i July 2017 letter written by Louis P. Kerestesy describing his meeting with General Frank Armstrong in Alaska in 1960 at Elmendorf AFB while Kerestesy was an Airman 3rd Class. Also enclosed are photographs of Kerestesy in uniform in 1960, holding an autographed picture of General Armstrong in 1960, and in 2017.
Box 3 Folder j Funeral Guest Book for George Michael Williams, Sr. of Goldsboro, North Carolina, who was buried on December 28, 1973, in Willow Dale Cemetery.
Box 3 Folder k Transit Book 366, with printed tables on inside covers for calculating distances from the centers of roadways for cross-sectioning and lined pages for handwritten information, was produced by Keuffel and Esser Co. who also sold drawing materials and surveying instruments. The unknown owner of this book surveyed Greensboro, North Carolina, property related to railroad traverses. Sections are listed with titles like: McIver St. School, Water Works Property, and Colored School. The latter part of the book was used for calculations based on the tables for computation of traverse. The book is not dated, but was probably done in 1902 or later (based on copyright).
0936-b3-f1 "Donald George Fletcher: A Founding Father: An Innocent Man!" written by Connie A. Thomas, 2015 45.3 Megabytes 1 file

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