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Elizabeth Dole with Donald Duck US Coast Guard Auxiliary promotional photo of Elizabeth Dole (in a life-vest) with Donald Duck. Date approximated.
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Letter from J.R. Fearing to Captain Timothy Hunter Letter to Captain Timothy Hunter from J.R. Fearing regarding the Burnside Expedition. Fearing tells Hunter that General Ambrose Burnside's men are close and they are waiting to be attacked near Elizabeth City, N.C. He asks Hunter to take care of his wife if something happens to him. He mentions that a part of General Henry A. Wise's forces are present, but he wishes the whole unit was there. Date approximated.
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License of schooner William W. Hall License for a vessel above twenty tons, issued to Timothy Hunter and George W. Hobbs for the schooner William W. Hall on November 2, 1853.
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N. & S.R.R. depot, Elizabeth City, N.C. Postcard depicting railroad station in Elizabeth City, N.C., showing a train, some horse-drawn carriages, and pedestrians. Numbered 15289. Addressed on verso to Mr. Martin Douglas, Chapel Hill, N.C. Date from postmark.
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Farmers' supper speech notes Speech notes by North Carolina state Attorney General Robert Morgan at the Farmers' Supper event. Numbered: Vol. 10, no. 03.
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Orville Wright with reporters departing Manteo - Sepia #1 Orville Wright speaks to reporters onboard ferry from Manteo to Elizabeth City following successful glider tests. Writers present in 1911 were D. Bruce Salley from Norfolk; John Mitchell of the Associated Press; Van Ness Harwood of the New York Herald; Arnold Krockman from the New York American; and a few others. Identities in the photo have not been preserved. Sources differ as to whether the ferry was the Hattie Creef or the Trenton, both of which carried passengers and cargo between Elizabeth City and Manteo during these years. Inscription on verso reads: "Orville Wright (center) and correspondents at Kitty Hawk, N.C." Another inscription on the back of this mounted photo is not legible.
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"Old brick house" : rendezvous of Blackbeard, the pirate, Elizabeth City, N.C. Postcard of the house of Blackbeard, "five miles above Elizabeth City on the banks of the Pasquotank River." Historical note on verso. Numbered EC-8. Date approximated from other postcards in collection.
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General Burnside's headquarters for Battle of Roanoke - Cyanotype #7 Photograph taken during the 1911 Wright glider tests on the Outer Banks. One of the favorite tourist sites on Roanoke Island at the turn of the century was the Civil War headquarters of General Burnside who liberated the island from Confederate control from this once stately house on the western coast of the island. The individual in the photograph is not identified, but would most logically be Van Ness Harwood, the photographer.
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Elizabeth City, North Carolina Water color lithograph from the February 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, as seen from the Pasquotank River
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Historic district, Elizabeth City, North Carolina Historic district, Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Elizabeth City, N.C. : Elizabeth City Area Chamber of Commerce, [19--?] [13] p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. Cover title. National register of historic places.
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Duties of Boys to their Country Duties of Boys to their Country, an address by Lt. Carl Forsyth of the U.S. Coast Guard Station at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to the Boy Scouts of the Greater Albemarle and the citizens of the township of Elizabeth City, N.C., at Sheep School Auditorium.
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Oath of mail contractors and carriers Certificate of oath of mail contractors and carriers signed by James H. Robinson, sworn before the justice of the peace in Chowan County, North Carolina. Robinson's route (#13095) stretched from Elizabeth City to Williamston.