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Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-187
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photocopies of newspaper articles, letters, certificates, photographs, and other memorabilia between 1965 - 1999 related to Horace Whitley's tenure as the mayor of Whiteville, NC.
Dates:
1963-1996
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-034
Scope and Contents
The McDonald-Howe Family Papers contains materials pertaining to the Alfred Howe family and the children of his daughter, Rebecca Howe McDonald. Included are documents pertaining to the life of Alfred Howe, who was the son of Anthony Walker, a formerly enslaved person, and his wife, Tenah Howe, a member of the Tuscarora. Howe was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and became a successful builder, in addition to holding a number of elected positions. Additional materials in the...
Dates:
1861-1966
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-051
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 109 photocopies of letters from Black soldiers during World War II. They were used in Dr. Phillip McGuire’s book, Taps for a Jim Crow Army, published in 1983. The letters contain the many maltreatments Black soldiers dealt with during their service, including the complaints they made and corresponding consequences they suffered for speaking out. Maltreatments included but were not limited to use of racial slurs, corporal...
Dates:
1941-1946 (photocopies), 1983; Majority of material found within 1941-1946 (photocopies)
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-315
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documentation of the Page family from 1911 to 2000, including accounting books, receipts, loans, correspondence, photographs, a bible, and a marriage license. McLean Page and the Page family worked as farmers, potentially sharecroppers, in Whiteville, North Carolina. Many of the papers in this collection are records of transactions for farm equipment and resources, including financial documents, loan papers, and crop lien forms. Personal to the family are photographs...
Dates:
1911-2000
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-323
Abstract
Dr. Melton McLaurin is a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He received a PhD in American history from the University of South Carolina in 1967, and taught in the UNCW history department from 1977 to 1995. From 1996 until his retirement in 2004, Dr. McLaurin served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at UNCW.
Dr. McLaurin is the author of several works, including Separate Pasts, Growing Up White in the...
Dates:
1877-2006, undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-318
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the written works of Michael Papadaes, especially focused on his Greek ancestry.
Dates:
2012-2016, undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-375
Scope and Contents
Contains posters for the following documentaries filmed by Mike Raab: Rolling Thunder, The Ice House, Ground Zero Goldsboro, The Flag That Killed Lincoln, Relish Our Dogs, The Disappearing Church, Hometown Hollywood, and Second Chances.
Dates:
2012-2018, Undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-338
Abstract
Congressman Mike McIntyre served as the Representative for North Carolina's 7th Congressional district from 1997 to 2015. McIntyre's Congressional collection consists of papers and memorabilia accrued during his time in office and represents issues important to the district and his interactions as a Congressman. The collections consists of 111 linear feet of papers and approximately 700 artifacts.
Dates:
1970-2014
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material related to the U.S. Army's Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point (MOTSU) in Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina. The terminal functions as a transport location for various military supplies. Contents include operational documents of the terminal, newspaper clippings, maps and archaelogical surveys of MOTSU, and safety, environmental, and preservation reports. The bulk of the collection is dated between 1952 and 1992.It also includes...
Dates:
1767-1888 (photocopies), 1911-2000; Majority of material found within 1952-1992
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-317
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the research materials of historian, Milton Rugoff, for his book titled, The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century.
Dates:
2007-12-12
