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Box 8

 Container

Contains 17 Results:

Illustrations from De rebus Alexandri Magni... by Curtius Rufus, Quintus, 1685

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC Small 108
Scope and Contents This collection contains seven etched illustrations from De rebus Alexandri Magni, cum commentario perpetuo & indice absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci... by Curtius Rufus, Quintus. It was published in 1685 by Utrecht, Francisca Halma. The etchings were drawn by Dutch artist Jan van den Aveelen. The full text, though not included here, is the only surviving Roman biography of Alexander the Great.Also includes printed bibliographic records and notes related to...
Dates: 1685

Dr. Louis H. Adcock photography, Undated

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: SC Small 109
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three sets of printed photographs taken by Dr. Louis Adcock, a former professor and founding member of the UNCW chemistry department. The first set of prints are of tobacco workers and Durham, North Carolina circa late 1940s; the second set is of Greenfield Lake in Wilmington, NC, possibly circa 1957, with a construction photograph of the UNCW Fisher University Center circa the mid-2000s; the third set is of local artist Claude Howell's work, undated.

Dates: Undated

Dorothy Dixon Papers, 1963-1982

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: SC Small 110
Scope and Contents This collection contains the papers of Dorothy Dixon, a nurse at James Walker Memorial Hospital and professor of nursing at UNC Wilmington. The first folder contains correspondence, meeting minutes, agenda items, certificates, and related documents from Dixon's service on the Practical Nursing Advisory Committee for New Hanover County and its various iterations throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The second folder contains correspondence, guidelines, forms, lists of medical terms, and related...
Dates: 1963-1982

Susan Simmons Collection, 1953-1956

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2024_01003
Scope and Contents

This collection contains ephemera belonging to nursing student Susan Simmons from her time in the James Walker Memorial Hospital nursing program, as well as the sorority Epsilon Sigma Alpha and related nursing and educational material from 1953-1956. Content includes informational booklets, event and program booklets, newspaper clippings, and handbooks.

Dates: 1953-1956

Wilmington Presbyterian delegation telegrams, 1956 January-February

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2024_02004.1
Scope and Contents This collection contains a set of Western Union Telegrams from February 2, 1956 between the residents of Wilmington, North Carolina and the local Presbyterian delegation that was attending a meeting at White Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. The meeting was held by the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina to decide the location of their new college in Eastern North Carolina, with the members of the Wilmington delegation championing the city as the logical location for...
Dates: 1956 January-February

Carl and Ann Tinder Collection, 1959-1978

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2024_02004.2
Scope and Contents This collection contains a set of ephemera, newspaper clippings, and a July 1976 issue of "Ideas for Better Living" from the Cooperative Savings and Loan Association business in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Carl Tinder worked. Also included is ephemera from John T. Hoggard High School, belonging to Carl's daughter Ann, who was a 1978 graduate. Also included are a letter from Carl's wife Catherine to Ann and a prescription for Ann when she was a child from Babies Hospital with a...
Dates: 1959-1978

Cape Fear Council on Science and Technology records, 1984-1988

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1-5
Identifier: SC Small 097
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the work of the Cape Fear Council on Science and Technology, a group whose purpose was to encourage collaboration among the regional scientific and technological community. Included are the organization's by-laws, meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence, membership applications, a brochure, report, and newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1984-1988

Southeast Region Superintendents' Council documents, 1977-1978

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC Small 098
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the work Southeast Region Superintendents' Council, which was comprised of North Carolina public school superintendents from various counties in the southeastern part of the state. Included are meeting agendas and minutes, as well as a small number of documents compiling data and other information about federal education laws and their impact locally.

Dates: 1977-1978

Civil War letters, 1863-1864

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: SC Small 103
Scope and Contents Contains two Civil War era letters. The first is dated December 16, 1863 at Wilmington, N.C. and is addressed to Jane from Neill A. Baker. It discusses movement from Kinston and Baker's visit to family along the way, as well as being paid and how troops are spending their money. Neil Baker was in the 50th regiment, N.C. Infantry, Company F. The second letter dated May 9, 1864 at a camp near Wilmington N.C. and is addressed to "Capt." from R. C. (Robert Cicero) Broadhurst. It discusses a...
Dates: 1863-1864

Local film ephemera, 1990

 Collection — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: 2020-07-001
Scope and Contents

Contains a signed blank employment page by actors Gene Hackman and Dom DeLouise when shooting the 1990 film, Loose Cannons, shot locally in Wilmington, NC

Dates: 1990