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Roger T. Krupp Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-266
Scope and Contents
Network radio and TV announcer for more than 40 years, Krupp worked for all of "The Big Three," ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as a contract announcer for many weekly radio shows. He was stationed at Schofield Barracks Post Broadcasting System as manager of the station, and interrupted a regularly scheduled program one minute after receiving a news flash from Associated Press bulletin announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A man of many interests, Krupp showed talent as an artist, a...
Dates:
1933-1978
Found in:
Special Collections
Ronald G. Phelps Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-353
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Ronald G. Phelps's personal documents, yearbooks, CDs, VHS tapes, photos, copies of published items, magazines, and newspaper clippings, largely related to Wilmington and the surrounding area's history from 1929 to 2018. Ron Phelps was active in the Wilmington community and considered a local amateur historian. A large portion of the collection focuses on New Hanover High School during Phelps's attendence and the various reunion events following his graduation in...
Dates:
1929-2018
Found in:
Special Collections
Ryan Anderson Baseball Research Materials
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-307
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the research materials gathered by Ryan Anderson for use in his Masters Thesis in the department of History at UNCW. The bulk of the collection is photocopied articles from the Wilmington Morning Star (1868-1921) pertaining to Wilmington baseball players, teams, and leagues. The collection also includes articles from the Wilmington Messenger and the Semi-Weekly Messenger, as well as articles about ball player, Robert Gwaltney. The collection includes 4 composition...
Dates:
1868-1921 (photocopies), 1999; Majority of material found within 1868-1921 (photocopies)
Found in:
Special Collections
Samuel D. Bissette Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-282
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Bissette's papers, photographs, artwork and record of his artistic career.
Dates:
1970-2005
Found in:
Special Collections
Sand Roots Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-093
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the photocopy of a corrected typescript of Ben Dixon MacNeill's (1889-1960) manuscript originally titled, By So Many Roots. Although this draft is dated "11:20 A.M., Monday, October 27, 1944, Buxton, Cape Hatteras" on the final page, Sand Roots, his first and only novel, was published posthumously in 1963. MacNeil did not show the manuscript to his publisher until ...
Dates:
1944 October 27
Found in:
Special Collections
Sara Mildred Strauss Newman Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-199
Scope and Contents
The Sara Mildred Strauss Newman Collection was donated by Dorothy Nesbitt. It consists of biographical information on her life, likely compiled by Dorothy Nesbitt, as well as correspondence by Newman and Nesbitt. Along with information surrounding Sara Mildred Strauss Newman’s time as a dance instructor, teacher, and writer in New York, the collection also includes materials relating to her opening another dance studio in Midtown Wilmington. Photos relating to her dance career as well as her...
Dates:
1905-2006
Found in:
Special Collections
Scheetz Music Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-056
Scope and Contents
This collection includes sheet music and songbooks of popular music during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most of the selections are written for piano, however there are several arrangements for the ukulele and guitar.
Dates:
1888-1959
Found in:
Special Collections
Sherwin Lipman Football Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-325
Scope and Contents
This collection contains football memorabilia, World War II memorabilia, and veteran documents. Included are game day programs from Army football games Sherwin Lipman played during World War II, as well as game day programs from football games Lipman played in the American Association immediately after World War II. The programs are dated from 1945 to 1946. The football memorabilia series also includes newspaper clippings and articles written about games Lipman was a part of during his...
Dates:
1939-2011
Found in:
Special Collections
Sidney Gardner MacMillan Private Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-040
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of thirty letters written by Sidney Gardner MacMillan to his family, one letter written by Jessie N. Worth to her Aunt Margaret MacMillan, and five photographic postcards of France. Sidney's letters provide a unique view of a soldier from Wilmington, NC who was part of the United States Army during the Battle of Marne in France and part of the US occupation of Germany near the end of World War I.MacMillan's letters to his parents and to his sister,...
Dates:
1918-1919
Found in:
Special Collections
Sir John Stoddart Memoranda
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-018
Scope and Contents
This collections consists of the original envelope which held the document, Memorandum On the modified Trial by Jury established at Malta, written by Sir John Stoddart. Additionally, there is a separate Memorandum on the abolition of Ecclesiastical Immunities at Malta, also written by Stoddart in 1828.
Dates:
1832-1834
Found in:
Special Collections