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Personal files (1941–1945), including correspondence, reports, orders notes, fitness reports, and miscellaneous ships' records, dealing primary with command of the USS Cates (DE-176).

This collection contains materials created by the Office of Institutional Planning, Assessment, and Research including items related to strategic planning and statistical analysis of academic programs and faculty.

Collection contains ninety-six Civil War era cartes de visite. The vast majority of the images are of Union generals and leaders plus a few Union naval figures and political figures. All but six images have been identified; most identifications were not made contemperanously. Only five images are of Confederate figures.

Papers (1946-1948) obtained by Richard Dillard Dixon, Jr., while visiting his father Richard Dillard Dixon, Sr., who participated in the of International Military Tribunal (for Nazi war crimes) held in Nuremberg, Germany, as a member of the judges Secretariat and as a judge. Included are mimeographed transcripts of some of the trials and related manuscripts, press releases, and wall charts delineating the hierarchy of Nazi German government and military system. Other papers (1870-1970) concern the life of Edenton, N.C., attorney, insurance agent, wholesale oil salesman and civic activist Richard Dillard Dixon, Jr.

This collection contains a microfilm copy of the "History of the 37th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry" written by A. H. Stein (1866). Significant numbers of North Carolina men from Craven, Jones, Onslow, Beaufort, Carteret, and other nearby counties enlisted in the Union Army at New Bern and were assigned to this regiment. These soldiers were freed men, formerly enslaved, who had fled from the surrounding plantations to New Bern after it was occupied by the Union Army in 1862.

Papers (1854-1865) including typescripts, correspondence, photocopies of army muster rolls, enlistment contract and discharge, letters comment on destruction of standing crops of Virginia, the demolition of Hampton, etc.

This collection contains materials from Campus Safety and Auxiliary Services, which include the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, Campus Police, Mail Services, One Card Office, Student Stores, and University Printing and Graphics.

Papers (1926-2003) covering the schooling and naval service of U. S. naval officer, USNA class of 1931, Captain James H. Brown, including correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, and photographs. Extensive material pertains to his service during World War II aboard the USS SHAW (1940-1942), USS ABNER READ (1942-1944), and the USS AMMEN (1944-1945), as well as his service before and after World War II.

Two postcard maps to Dr. Surry P. Roberts' office.

This collection contains material (1895-1936) related to Black minstrel shows that artist Mose McQuitty (who played baritone horn and string bass) toured with. Included are advertisements, photographs, and a route book listing the date, city, state, and lead show that the minstrel troupe toured with. Also included are extensive research files created by Alex Albright. These files chart McQuitty's movement state by state and show by show.

Poem "Homeward Bound" Written by Marine officer aboard the U.S. Ship Merrimac (1859)

Papers (1882-1954, undated [bulk 1882-1920]) of U. S. Navy surgeon, including correspondence, reports, and miscellany.

Papers (1863, 1938) including bill of state and clippings, genealogical clippings, newspapers.

Letter (1862) consisting of a report sent to Maj. J. W. Ratchford on the actions of Ripley's Brigade during the Seven Days' Battles (Peninsula Campaign).

Collection (ca. 1981) of research materials compiled for a publication on Dr. Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse and the history of Pitt Community Hospital, ca. 1870-1981, including correspondence, notes, and photographic prints and negatives.