Staff Picks

Staff Picks

Special Collections staff highlight an item from the collections weekly. This list is organized by major collection and some topics:

    Hoover Collection on International Communism
    Maritime and Naval History
    Manuscript Collections
    Maps
    Oral History Interviews
    People
    Places - North Carolina
    Places - Outside North Carolina
    Rare Books
    Schlobin Science Fiction and Fantasy
    Things
    University Archives
    War Time

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Hoover Collection on International Communism

Constitutional Education League
Dig We Must! - Into the Coal Operators' Profits!
Joseph McCarthy
May Day: 1938 for Democracy, Jobs, Security, Peace!
Pei-ching Chou Puo
Peking Opera on Contemporary Revolutionary Theme
Rebel Song Book
Rhythm, Riots & Revolution
S.S. Utah - A Banned Book
We Choose America
Who Wants War?: How the Soviet Union Builds for Peace
Workers Vanguard

Maritime and Naval History

Barbour Boat Works, Inc.
Blackbeard
CSS Neuse
HMS Bucton Castle
Marietta Manufacturing Company, "Made Mechanically Correct"
Safe Boating
The History of the Bucaniers of America
The "Maine"
Towboat Oliver C. Shearer
U. S. Coast Guard Orientation for Potential Recruits
USS Lackawanna Cabinet Card (1882)
USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia
Vessels Constitution & Etner

Manuscript Collections

81st Infantry Division Wildcat Shoulder Patch
1956 GMC Work Trucks Foldout Brochure Poster
Ada Delutuk Blackjack
Americans Flee Mexico To Texas to avoid Attack by Revolutionaries
Andy Griffith and the Lost Colony Production
Barbour Boat Works, Inc.
Basketball Star Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell & Coach Paul Jones
Bermuda Map
Blue Ridge Parkway
Bryan Grimes
Buzz Bomb Attack 1944
Capus Waynick and Anastasio Somoza
Chinese New Year, 1903
Christmas Card by William Meade Prince, 1950
Christmas Celebrations in Wilkesboro, N.C., As Described in 1848 Letter
Civil War Special Orders
Clarence Leroy Shuping Letter
Cromwell Graveyard
CSS Neuse
David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915
Davy Crockett Letter
Denis B. Cashman Diary
Doctor's Office at Penny Hill in Pitt County, N.C.
East Carolina Railway and Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr.
ECU Facilities Services
Emiline Pigott: Confederate Spy
Evans Street, Greenville, NC, ca. 1910
Farabee Civil War Letter
Flooding in Kinston, NC
Foy Land Record
Frank S. Briggs and the Yukon Gold Rush
Fred Sutton
Gatling Gun: The First Machine Gun
Gazette of the United States & the NC Ratification of the US Constitution
Goetzinger Letter
Greenville Police Riot Training ca. 1961-1962
Hardee's Restaurant
Hearne Brothers & Co. of Whitakers, NC
Henry Corbin Diary
HMS Bucton Castle
Hoover Days Cart
Howard Zacher in his plane "Margie"
Improved Jordan Grits Separator
Inglis Fletcher
James Noah Joyner in China
James Yadkin Joyner
Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Japanese Surrender Photograph
Jesse Helms
John F. Kennedy & Carl Sandburg
John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster, circa 1960
Joseph Hewes, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Josephus Daniels
Judge Thaddeus Banks Letter
Kinchen Wiley Cobb
Kinston High School's Little Mothers League for Better Babies
Lawrence Douglas Wilder
Letter from Harry S. Logan to sister Mrs. H.C. (Murdena S. Logan) Kennerley
Letter from King George V to Byron Hilliard-American Expeditionary Forces
Letter of Walter Clark to Dr. Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Concert
Lucy Cherry Crisp
Lyndon B. Johnson-Capus M. Waynick Telegram
Marietta Manufacturing Company, "Made Mechanically Correct"
Mark Twain Letter
Mary Marcia Blount Rodman
National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C.
North Carolina Textile Industry Items
Old Money
Parker Store, Menola, NC - 1
Parker Store, Menola, NC - 2
Pitt Community Hospital
Pitt County Courthouse, ca. 1900
Pitt Theatre, Greenville, NC
Post Card of the movie "Pitch a Boogie Woogie"
Postcard of Children Playing in Bogue Sound
Postcards of Taft Inauguration Parade & Roosevelt Departure
Proctor Hotel, Greenville, NC
Prohibition Propaganda Broadside, Circa 1908
Portrait of Enfa Zhou Awaiting Execution, 1907
Queen City Coach Company Letter, October 16, 1944
Safe Boating
Sally Phillips Smith
Slave Birth Records, Ormond Family Farm, Greene County, N.C., 1794-1824
Sparrow Warren Civil War Letter
Stadium Cleaners, Greenville, NC
Storm Center of Plug Tobacco
Tabitha Marie DeVisconti
Tax Receipts from the Government of the Confederate States
The C. Heber Forbes Store
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant, Greenville, NC (undated)
The Little Mint
The Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina 1964
Tobacco Harvest
Towboat Oliver C. Shearer
United Confederate Veterans Song Book
U. S. Coast Guard Orientation for Potential Recruits
USS LACKAWANNA Cabinet Card (1882)
USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia
Valentine's Day Postcards
Vessels Constitution & Etner
Victoria Street, Barbados
V-Mail Easter Greeting
Washington Park, Beaufort County, N.C., Photographs
Watercolor Self-portrait of A. R. Ammons
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
White's Theatre
William S. W. Ruschenberger, Journal (1848)
World War I Battlefield Scenes
World War I Draft Notice
World War II Diary
WW II Japanese Souvenir Flag
WWII Prisoner of War Camp, Williamston, N.C., 1943-1945
Wright Hotel, Raleigh, NC

Maps

Bermuda Map

Oral History Interviews

Sally Phillips Smith

People

Ada Delutuk Blackjack
American Indian Drawing by John White
Americans Flee Mexico To Texas to avoid Attack by Revolutionaries
Andy Griffith and the Lost Colony Production
Basketball Star Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell & Coach Paul Jones
Blackbeard
Bryan Grimes
Capus Waynick and Anastasio Somoza
Clarence Leroy Shuping Letter
David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915
Davy Crockett Letter
Denis B. Cashman Diary
East Carolina Railway and Henry Clark Bridgers, Sr.
Emiline Pigott: Confederate Spy
Edward R. Murrow Delivering 1963 Commencement Speech
Farabee Civil War Letter
Frank S. Briggs and the Yukon Gold Rush
Fred Sutton
Goetzinger Letter
Greenville Police Riot Training ca. 1961-1962
Howard Zacher in his plane "Margie"
Inglis Fletcher
James Noah Joyner in China
James Yadkin Joyner
Japanese Surrender Photograph
Jesse Helms
John F. Kennedy & Carl Sandburg
Joseph Hewes, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Joseph McCarthy
Josephus Daniels
Judge Thaddeus Banks Letter
Kinchen Wiley Cobb
Kinston High School's Little Mothers League for Better Babies
Lawrence Douglas Wilder
Letter from King George V to Bryon Hilliard-American Expeditionary Forces
Letter of Walter Clark to Dr. Charles O'Hagan Laughinghouse
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Concert
Lucy Cherry Crisp
Lusty Wind for Carolina
Lyndon B. Johnson-Capus M. Waynick Telegram
Mark Twain Letter
Mary Marcia Blount Rodman
Omai
Portrait of Enfa Zhou Awaiting Execution, 1907
Postcards of Taft Inauguration Parade & Roosevelt Departure
Sally Phillips Smith
Tabitha Marie DeVisconti
Temptin' Temptations
The Library Club, from the 1958 Buccaneer and Synergy, 2008
The Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina 1964
Verona Topping Lancaster Autograph Book
Watercolor Self-portrait of A. R. Ammons
William S. W. Ruschenberger, Journal (1848)

Places - North Carolina

Blue Ridge Parkway
Christmas Celebrations in Wilkesboro, N.C., As Described in 1848 Letter
Cromwell Graveyard
Doctor's Office at Penny Hill in Pitt County, N.C.
Evans Street, Greenville, NC, ca. 1910
Fifth Street, Greenville, NC
Flooding in Kinston, NC
Foy Land Record
Hardee's Restaurant
Hearne Brothers & Co. of Whitakers, NC
Kinston High School's Little Mothers League for Better Babies
National Bank Building, Greenville, N.C.
North Carolina Textile Industry Items
Parker Store, Menola, NC - 1
Parker Store, Menola, NC - 2
Pitt Community Hospital, Greenville, NC
Pitt County Courthouse, ca. 1900
Pitt Theatre, Greenville, NC
Postcard of Children Playing in Bogue Sound
Proctor Hotel, Greenville, NC
Secotan
Stadium Cleaners, Greenville, NC
Storm Center of Plug Tobacco
Students' gardens at East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1914
The Imperial Tobacco Processing Plant, Greenville, NC (undated)
The Model School
Tobacco Harvest
Washington Park, Beaufort County, N.C., Photographs
White's Theatre
Wright Hotel, Raleigh, NC

Places - Outside North Carolina

Bermuda Map
Chinese New Year, 1903
Frank S. Briggs and the Yukon Gold Rush
James Noah Joyner in China
Jamestown 350th Anniversary in 1957
Marietta Manufacturing Company, "Made Mechanically Correct"
Pei-ching Chou Pao
Peking Opera on Contemporary Revolutionary Theme
Victoria Street, Barbados

Rare Books

American Indian Drawing by John White
Blackbeard
Lusty Wind For Carolina
Omai
Secotan
The History of the Bucaniers of America
The "Maine"
The Microscope

Schlobin Science Fiction and Fantasy

Han Solo's Revenge
The Giant Sorcerer

Things

81st Infantry Division Wildcat Shoulder Patch
Christmas Card by William Meade Prince, 1950
Denis B. Cashman Diary
Detail of Site Plan - Staked Haybale
ECC Patch
Gatling Gun: The First Machine Gun
Hoover Days Cart
Improved Jordan Grits Separator
John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster, circa 1960
Lyndon B. Johnson-Capus M. Waynick Telegram
Old Money
Pat Dye Show Script, October 21, 1979
Post Card of the movie "Pitch a Boogie Woogie"
Prohibtion Propaganda Broadside, Circa 1908
Safe Boating
Student Handbook
The Microscope
Tobacco Harvest
United Confederate Veterans Song Book
USS LACKAWANNA Cabinet Card (1882)
Valentine's Day Postcards
WWII Japanese Souvenir Flag
Verona Topping Lancaster Autograph Book
Watercolor Self-portrait of A. R. Ammons
Yearbooks

University Archives

1914 Summer Class Photo (ECTTS)
1918 Flu Pandemic nickname "Spanish Flu", March 1918 to June 1920
1993 Commencement
Barefoot on the Mall 2008
Detail of Site Plan - Staked Haybale
Disaster Brings About an ECU Tradition
East Carolina Teachers Training School Board of Trustees
ECC Patch
ECTC Budget Cuts, 1932
ECTC News
ECTTS Faculty Meeting Minutes
ECU Historic Documentation of Support Staff
ECU's Historic Relationship with the Railroad
Edward R. Murrow Delivering 1963 Commencement Speech
Faculty Meeting on Wright Inauguration & Formation of Students Council
Fifth Street, Greenville, NC
Football Practice New Underway
Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics
High School Track Meet
J.Y. Joyner
New Year Message
Pat Dye Show Script, October 21, 1979
President Wright's Chapel Talk Concerning the Budget
Remembering The Flood of the Century
Student Handbook
Students' gardens at East Carolina Teachers Training School, 1914
Temptin' Temptations
The Library Club, from the 1958 Buccaneer and Synergy, 2008
The Model School
UN Walkout
Use of Closed Circuit TV Marks the Beginning of ECU's Technological Progress
Verona Topping Lancaster Autograph Book
Women's 1915 Basketball Team
Yearbooks

War Time

81st Infantry Division Wildcat Shoulder Patch
Buzz Bomb Attack 1944
Civil War Special Orders
CSS Neuse
David Balcombe: A British Soldier in India 1915
Emiline Pigott: Confederate Spy
Farabee Civil War Letter
Henry Corbin Diary
HMS Bucton Castle
Howard Zacher in his plane "Margie"
Japanese Surrender Photograph
Judge Thaddeus Banks Letter
Sparrow Warren Civil War Letter
Tax Receipts from the Government of the Confederate States
The "Maine"
United Confederate Veterans Song Book
USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia
V-Mail Easter Greeting
When Johnny Came Marching Home Again
World War I Battlefield Scenes
World War I Draft Notice
World War II Diary
WW II Japanese Souvenir Flag
WW II Prisoner of War Camp, Williamston, N.C., 1943-1945