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Papers (1720-1872, 1936) including correspondence, legal documents, estate records, accounts, promissory notes, shipping records, receipts, an apprenticeship bond, tombstone records, tax lists.

This collection (1898-2007) includes correspondence, genealogical charts, and historical information about the Stroud family.

Collection (1939) consisting of a pamphlet entitled Bishop[Thomas Campbell] Darst and East Carolina during the past twenty five years [1914-1939]. by Frederick Arthur Turner.

Papers of Jonathan Bumas (1986) documenting the life and career of the Forest Hills, New York-born American book illustrator and publisher of children's books, consisting of oversized original art works with captions for Phonethics: Twenty-Two Limericks for the Telephone (1986) by John Ciardi; drawings by Jonathan Bumas, published by Palaemon Press, Limited.

Papers (1752-1914) including correspondence, certificates, clippings, legal papers, scrapbook, postcard signed only "Ex Reb", passport, newspapers.

This collection contains degree proposals, self-study materials, enrollment figures, correspondence, reports, unit code of operations, announcements, brochures, and publications by the Department of Geology.

This collection contains a logbook (1891-1929) kept by William Hadlock Gooding (b. June 1, 1856, d. September 7, 1936), the purser for the barkentine Olive Thurlow. During this time, Olive Thurlow, which operated out of Philadelphia, travelled to New York, Boston, Savannah, Washington, Port Royal, Barbadoes, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo. Other entries in the logbook refer to the settling of accounts in Boston by Gooding for his time with the bark Grace Deering (1901-1902); and accounts (1906-1909, 1925-1929) related to his life in Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine.

This collection contains annual reports, meeting minutes, and self-studies from the Department of Physics.

The Records of the Department of Mathematics are comprised of annual reports, research and publications, operational plan vision documents, grants and contracts proposals, faculty meeting minutes, chair and instructor correspondences, Board of Higher Education self-study, SACS self-study, unit code of operations reports, and Pi MU Epsilon announcements, brochures, and publications.

Various unrelated items (1862-1865) concerning the Civil War including two 1862 letters, an 1865 oath of allegiance, Harper's Weekly lithographs (1862), an Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company 1862 statement, an 1862 $1000 Civil War bond from North Carolina;, and photocopies of a memoir written about fifty years after the war and transcribed in 1978, an 1862 letter and an 1863 circular.

The Records of the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies are comprised of annual reports, general college proposal, bachelor of general studies proposal report, general college task force report minutes, general college committee minutes, orientation miscellaneous: announcements, brochures, and publications, institutional research statistics reports, strategic planning reports, undergraduate student manuals, undergraduate faculty manuals, miscellaneous: announcements, brochures, and publications.

Papers (1932-1965, undated) including correspondence, petitions, minutes, printed material, election returns, papers concerning tobacco control programs, crop report, clippings etc.

Book (1827-1860) including correspondence, account book, expenses, notation on hiring of Black individuals, enslaved persons etc. 1 Volume.

Flyers, invitations, and programs from medical history lecture series put on by East Carolina University Medical History Club and then Medical History Interest Group.

This collection (1760s-1902) mainly contains land records, accounts, a will, and receipts related to the Price and McDade families of Edgecombe and Nash Counties, North Carolina. Also included is a PDF scan of "The Life History of Dempsey Trevathan and Descendants." Another interesting item is a diary (1890-1895, 1902) kept by Theron L. Budesheim's grandmother Franc Emma Rhoades Bates. She documents her life in New York and Pennsylvania where her husband Oliver Bates worked as a scaler in the timber industry.