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Collection includes negatives from U. S. Coast Guard Cutter KANKAKEE files (ca. 1921), showing the stern wheel paddle steamer S. J. PHILLIPS, of New Bern, North Carolina, and two sailing vessels, CONSTITUTION of Manteo, NC, and the ETNER, of New Bern, NC. Also included are photographs and 1 negative of the tanker OVERSEAS CHICAGO (1977), the Merchant Marine ship PENN CHAMPION at Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard (1969), the cargo ship SS SANTA MERCEDES (1964) and the Greek cruise ship OLYMPIA.

Papers (2006-2024) from the Tar River University Neighborhood Association (TRUNA) of Greenville, North Carolina. TRUNA was created in 1998 as a merger of two pre-existing neighborhood associations: The University Neighborhood Association (TUNA) and the Tar River Neighborhood Association (TRNA). Included are files of the president, minutes, correspondence, and files related to an initiative to save the neighborhood from planned ECU development by creating the East College Park Homeowners Association (later deemed unnecessary when ECU withdrew their plans related to expansion there). Some records of TUNA and TRNA activities are also included.

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

Collection (1943-1945) of member of U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1941, including correspondence, typescript diary relating to the cruise of the USS BORUM (DE-790).

Collection (1782) consisting of land grant patent.

Papers (1870-1923) consisting business ledgers of a general store, a treasurer's report, a map and eight essays.

History (undated) of USS Bunch (DE-694) entitled "World War II Ocean Escorts and their fast North Atlantic Merchant Convoys"

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

Collection (1753-1852) including deeds concerning Bladen and Bath counties (NC).

Ledgers, day books and other records (1920-1980), of Falkland, NC Mercantile business and its antecedent firms.

Warning: This collection contains racial imagery and rhetoric that may be offensive to users. This collection contains color photographic prints documenting university history.

Collection (ca. 1899-2011, undated) documenting the history of Pepsi-Cola in New Bern, N.C.; the involvement of the Minges family in the soft drink business, 1923-1992, in Greenville, Tarboro, and Rocky Mount, N.C.; and the Minges Bottling Group, Inc., of Ayden, N.C. Materials include clippings, correspondence, contracts and financial records, advertising materials, photographic prints and compact discs, printing plates, printed materials, trademark registration certificates, video recordings, ephemera,etc. Digital files document the history of the Minges family of Catawba and Pitt Counties, North Carolina, and the history of the Minges Bottling Group.

Logbook (1792 - 1793) for East India cargo ship Thetis and folders of supporting evidence.

Papers of Richard Eberhart (1885-1990 [Bulk: 1918-1989], undated) documenting the life and literary career of the Austin, Minnesota-born poet, playwright, literary critic, and educator, including correspondence, scripts, typescripts, holographs, miscellaneous materials, audio and video materials, and loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Books Collection, proofs of published works, audio recordings, printed materials by Eberhart and other writers, oversized materials and materials in English, French, Greek, Anglo-Saxon, Old French, Russian, Spanish, Thai language.