Seth Muse
Seth Muse (1912-1976) was born in Cash Corner, NC, and became a well known Washington D.C. news photographer, a member of the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Club. Muse took pictures of nearly all the prominent figures in North Carolina politics during his career, and his collection of photographs as part of the Seth Muse papers can now be searched online at and on site in Joyner Library. Included in the collection are photographs of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Vice President Richard Nixon and of leaders of other countries such as Queen Elizabeth of England, and famous people such as Bob Hope, Sophie Tucker, Kim Novak, the fighter Jack Dempsey, and Evangelist Billy Graham. According to Wm. Joseph Thomas, "Seth Muse was an enthusiastic supporter of East Carolina University. ... He attended ECU in 1937, and married Dorothy Crumpler of Roseboro, N.C., a graduate of East Carolina. Their son George also graduated in 1963 from East Carolina. ... This image of John F. Kennedy with Carl Sandburg was taken on Oct 25th, 1961 at the White House." In 1960, during his Presidential campaign, Kennedy visited the ECU campus and delivered an address at Ficklen Stadium on Sept. 17.
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