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Genealogical files (undated) pertaining to the Croom family, related families, and the Croom reunions in Sandy Bottom, Lenoir County, North Carolina, including correspondence, research notes, programs, family histories, genealogical charts, clippings, and miscellany. Also includes a school project created by Doris Croom Outlaw's daughter Nancy Sue Outlaw at age 14 in 1963 which includes information about her family history background and experiences in her home life and school life in Kinston, North Carolina, and contains photographs.

Papers (1885-2009) of prominent Washington, NC, attorney Junius Daniel Grimes, who was member of the firm Ward and Grimes, and his family and business associates, including correspondence, legal records, land records, financial papers, publications, taxes, installments, bills, survey, map, etc.

Papers of U.S. Navy officer, USNA class of 1941, including squadron history for Air Force Bombing Squadron Ten (1944-1945); reports on "Operation High Jump," manpower, and command leadership; and a chart.

1.65 cubic feet; Collection (1830-1926) including correspondence, ephemera, photographic prints, manuscript volumes & oversized materials, relating to the McDaniel, Harvey, and related families of Kinston and Trenton in Jones & Lenoir Counties, North Carolina, including materials related to the family's real estate holdings, business and social life, church activities, and children's educations.

Warning: This collection contains content that may be offensive to users. Collection covers the administrative term of Leo W. Jenkins as chief executive of East Carolina University. Speeches, correspondence, and publications include East Carolina gaining University status, the foundation of a medical school, the transition of athletics into Division I, and the growth of the campus.

Collection (1932-1975) of correspondence, clippings, and yearbooks compiled by Harriett Roseveare and Carolyn James, who served as club officers, relating to club membership and activities in support of World War I and II, including sale of war bonds, United Nations Day, home economics education, Green Springs Park, Parent - Teacher Associations, nursery schools and night schools, social events and scholarships for teenagers, Community Fine Arts Festival, Pitt General Hospital, Pitt County Fair, and other activities.

Account books, handwritten notebook, and miscellaneous papers from Dr. H.H. Whitaker. The handwritten notebook includes symptoms, treatments, prognosis, and other valuable information about a wide range of illnesses. Miscellaneous papers include draft copies of deed contracts, correspondence, and receipts.

Hometown Bethel was started in 2002 to help restore and revitalize Bethel, North Carolina. This collection contains five scrapbooks (2002-2016) of photographs, clippings, photocopies, and handwritten material documenting events taking place in Bethel such as Harvest Festivals, Easter celebrations, and Christmas Parades; Hurricane Irene's effects; and the history of Bethel. Also included are a few Whistle Worthy News newsletters put out by Hometown Bethel, and information concerning and a 2004 publication about Bethel veterans.

Papers (1927-1960) consisting of correspondence, clippings, articles, and speeches on tobacco and the tobacco program.

Papers (1836-1977) including genealogical materials, clippings, census materials, clippings, speeches, travel diary and correspondence, etc.

This collection contains administrative reports, publications, radio and television schedules, information about events, photographs, and videorecordings.

This archive covers the early life and long United States Army career of Brigadier General George T. Bowman (b. 1869 and d. 1951). His career included service (stateside) during the Spanish-American War with the New York 65th Volunteer Infantry, with various New York volunteer and regular Army units in the Philippines (1899-1904), in Cuba (1906-1909), with Gen. John Pershing on the Mexican border (1915-1916), during World War I (1918-1919), and in Germany after World War I ended. Included are correspondence, orders and other military documents, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, maps, narratives and commentary by Bowman, and a diary.

This collection contains information on people, places, and events arranged by subject. Many items are not originals.

This donation contains material (1968-1995) collected by Walter Charles Lackey and his wife Mildred Futrell Lackey documenting their involvement in the Murfreesboro Historical Association. Included are a photograph album containing images of the 1980 Dedication of Wheeler House and the 1977 Lafayette Ball, 1981 Lafayette Ball programs, clippings (1968-1979), the History of Murfreesboro United Methodist Church (1976), invocation and history of Wesleyan Female College upon unveiling of a historical marker, "Memories of Murfreesboro" compiled August 1992 by the Recollections Committee of the Murfreesboro Historical Assoc., and three publications.