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Yvonne Cobourn speaks about her time as a student at East Carolina University in the late 1970s, including her classes and her on and off-campus jobs including working with Dr. Steven Riggs. She discusses her life in Greenville, North Carolina including local restaurants and attending musical performances at the Attic nightclub.

Papers (1832, 1883-1921) including letters, marriage and death records, school census.

This genealogy collection includes photocopied details on over 50 families in or around Beaufort County, North Carolina, including, but not limited to, family crests, biographies, Official First Families of North Carolina memberships and applications for membership (OFFNC), wills, land deeds, cemetery location information, family newsletters, pedigree charts, birth and death certificates, marriage licenses/deeds, census data, descendant lists, and photographs. Much information can be found for the Blount, Bowen, Bryan, Clark, Godley, Hunter, Little, and Galloway family lines. Extensive information can be found for the Hardy/Hardee and Ross family lines.

Collection (1779-1917) including correspondence, deeds, mortgages, letter of sympathy, land documents, promissory notes, and a will.

This collection contains a scrapbook that documents the student experience of Katie Harris.

The papers and audiovisual materials of Dr. Karen Baldwin, a professor of English and Folklore at ECU.

Interview (1942-1998) with African-American teacher who graduated from St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, NC, who taught for thirty-one years in the Wilson County, NC schools and currently teaches at James Baxter Hunt High School. Class assignment for Professor Lu Ann Jones' Fall 1998 History 5960 Class, submitted 10/27/1998. 1 cassette. 1.0 hr. Interviewer: Damika L. Hall. Interview date: 10/16/1998. Typed interview log and transcript by interviewer available. 10 p. Rec'd. 10/28/2003

Interview (ca. 1930-1999) with ECC graduate, 1963 from Macklesville - Fountain - Rocky Mount, NC, who taught English at schools in Kinston, Halifax County, Rocky Mount and Rose High School in Greenville, NC, 1969-1993. Class assignment for Professor Lu Ann Jones' Fall 1999 History 5960 Class, submitted 10/25/1999. 1 cassette. 1.5 hrs. Interviewer: Whitney Farmer. Interview date: 10/25/1999. Typed interview log and transcript by interviewer available. 14 p. Rec'd 10/28/2003.

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.

In this oral history, Carl Long (May 9, 1935 - January 12, 2015) discusses his professional baseball career (1952-1958) with the "Negro American League" and the Pittsburgh Pirates farm clubs including among others the Kinston (North Carolina) Eagles in the Carolina League where he was the first African American baseball player in the league; his time as the first African American deputy sheriff and first African American detective in Kinston; and his subsequent career as the first African American bus driver in Lenoir County (NC) from which he retired in 1995.

Papers (1844-1914) relating to crop prices and real estate, consisting of microfilms of photocopies, correspondence, flyer, military records, land records and muster rolls.

This collection (1846-1903) contains correspondence between Ransom Respess of Ransomville, North Carolina, and other members of his family including his son, Reverend George Respess of Ransomville, N.C. Topics include family members, agriculture, an 1860 uprising of enslaved persons in Alabama, and the Civil War Battle of Manassas (1862). Among other items included is an 1846-1849 arithmetic cipher book.

Partial casualty report (7/6/1863) for the 5th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg 1 - 3 July 1863, missing pages 1 - 4, but recording the wounded of part of Company G, all of companies H, and K, and including a complete recapitulation of the regiment's losses: killed (39), wounded (235), and missing (55), signed by 2d Lt. Edward S. Smedes who was later killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.

Collection (undated) consisting copies, biographical and genealogical material.