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Oral history interview (11/19/2003) by Jason Kokinda, in Richlands, NC, pertaining to Amy Sue Brown's life (1929-2003), childhood in Gregory Fork, NC tobacco farming family, corn farming, education, marriage to Percy Brown (1947), children, church life, Marine Corps base. 4 items. 6 p. 2 audiocassettes (2 p.); 1 computer diskette (1 p.); 1 interview index, dated 11/19/2003 (3 p. typescript). Note: Oral history in fulfillment of Dr. Lu Ann Jones' History 5960 (Fall 2003) class requirements. No Oral History Agreement signed. See also related Lu Ann Jones Collection #798.5.a.
Address (8/11/1994) by a naval officer (U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1938) from North Carolina, who served in World War II in the Pacific Conference, Crystal City, Arlington, VA. Notes: 1 audio cassette. 0.5 hr. (Side A #1-357 only) Transcript available: None. Interviewer: N/A. No oral history agreement. Loaned for copying by James T. Cheatham, 8/11/1994: original returned to lender.
The Maury York Papers are comprised of his administrive files, committee records, and records about grant projects, library director searches, and library projects including the First in the Family Cenntennial Oral History Project, the history fiction project, and the Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming.
This collection contains materials compiled and published by the Burroughs Wellcome Genealogy Club of Greenville, NC. The club, founded by Jean Marie Duff, was associated with the Burroughs Wellcome Fund in Triangle Park, NC. Included in the collection are family Bible records from 23 families in the eastern states.
This collection includes a copy of a typescript of the autobiographical sketch written in 1893 by Eastern North Carolina physician and educator Richard Henry Lewis, Sr. (1832-1917). It refers to important family history in his background and describes important events in his life up until 1893.
Collection (1916-1918) includes 14 silver gelatin photographs and 4 printed postcards that belonged to Emil Görling, a German soldier in the 3rd Landwehr Division during World War I. The majority of the images document the 1918 German Spring Offensive in Northern France, specifically the Noyon campaign (April-August 1918). Included are images of the devastation in the area, the battlefields between the towns of Noyon and Lassigny in France, and the unit at work, at leisure and in retreat in the Lorraine area. Many of the photographs and postcards have comments written with pencil or ink in German.
Papers (1805-1889, 1961-1963) of a wealthy, Elizabeth City, NC business family, consisting of correspondence, legal records, financial records, genealogical papers, Civil War events, letters, wedding gift, labor strikes and miscellaneous.
The collection is papers found in a doctor's bag belonging to Dr. Bennett E. Stephenson. The papers include advertisements, useful prescription information cards, handwritten notes, and notes with formularies for ringworm.
Papers (1741-1914, undated) including correspondence, legal records, land records, records of enslaved persons, financial records, receipts, ledger account book, recipes, cures, disease, etc.
The majority of this collection pertains to James V. Lobell of Maryland who was a leader in the footwear industry from 1913 to 1961; he founded Cavalier Shoe Polish Company which was purchased by KIWI in 1961. Included are business and personal correspondence, photographs, reports, shoe catalogs, and bound issues of Shoes and Leather Reporter (1910s-1920s). Papers also reflect his involvement with the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary (especially during WWII), and Business Education among other topics. The donor wrote his master's thesis on Lobell's life and materials related to his research are included, too. Unrelated to Mr. Lobell are clippings (1969-1978) and posters concerning Rose High School (Greenville, North Carolina) football and baseball teams; a broadside "Chronology of Pitt County History" created by Jessamine Shumate (1953); and North Carolina public school education-related documents (1906-1933).
Contains Rocky Mount Sanitarium Nurses Alumnae minutes (1956-2013), constitution and bylaws, and Florence Nightingale pledge booklet.
Oral history interview with Simeon O. Holloway who discusses his recollections from the time period 1942-1945 while serving in the United States Navy B-1 Band.
Oral history interview (ca. 2/17/1987) of Maj.-Lt. Col. Edwin G. Wernentin's experiences with the 138th Engineering Company, 1st Air Force, during World War II, in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands, 11/10/1944 - 11/23/1945; read by Bill [?] from a transcript by E. G. Wernentin. Notes: 1 item. 1 tape. 0.5 hr. No oral history agreement. Transcript available: Partial notes only (3 p.).
This collection contains portions of two ledger books (1910-1930s) and one complete ledger book (1950s-1960s) documenting the church membership rolls of and claims payments made to the Conference by members of the Invitation AME Zion Church in Greene County, North Carolina. Also included are some birth, death, and marriage records, especially in the two older ledgers.
This collection contains land records (1883-1900) for Edgecombe and Pitt Cos., North Carolina, financial records (1882-1901), and genealogical notes related to the DuPree family. Also included are photographs of DuPree, Morton, Boone, and Hardison (Martin Co., N.C.) family members and a 1910 class picture from Greenville High School, Pitt County, N.C.
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