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Joseph K. Taussig Jr. Was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1920. He was Served aboard the USS Nevada at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The collection spans 1996 and 2005 and includes the booklet "The Day I Lost My Foot in the Pentagon and Other Literary Jewels" written by Taussig. The strength of the collection is the assorted published articles about Taussigs experiences in the Navy and Pentagon.
This collection contains materials related to the Iota Upsilon Chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha at East Carolina College.
Diploma for Angus Bethune from New York City University in 1848. Memorial certificate for Angus Bethune dated 1892.
Papers (1815-1866) including a promissory note, receipts, and a letter from the Freedman's Bureau relating to the payment of wages to Sophia Dunford, a freedwoman. 8 items.
Papers (1974-1916) consisting of correspondence, land records, financial papers, legal papers, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous.
Papers (1945-1974) consisting of business and personal correspondence, financial papers, medical correspondence and miscellaneous.
A button from the Polio Pioneer campaign by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and immunization card for polio from Yonkers, New York.
A typescript history of the USS Borie (DD 704) and an issue of its newsletter Noah's Ark News (Sept. 2, 1945), and photographs.
Advertising material mainly for drugs. It includes advertisements, package inserts, warning labels, pamphlets, paper dolls, journals, 1 wrapper, and 1 fan.
Papers (1890-1926) including correspondence, clippings, and certificates, publication, biographical sketches.
Records (1874-1876) consisting of minutes and bylaws of Hearts Ease Grange.
A New and Accurate Map of the Provinces of North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc., Drawn from the late Surveys and regulated by Astronl. Observatns. (Photocopy)
This notebook is an 1870 student's notebook containing field notes of a Survey of the Coast of North Carolina done for the United States Coast Survey. It was likely kept by Jacob Bell Cornell (1848-1897), a member of the Class of 1872 at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Of specific interest are a diagram and calculations associated with a lighthouse in the Pamlico Sound and references to Portsmouth Island and Swan Quarter.
This collection contains about 363 cubic feet of material documenting the Congressional career of Lunsford Richardson Preyer. Mr. Preyer (January 11, 1919-April 3, 2001) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the U.S. House of Representatives for twelve years (January 1969-January 1981).
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