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The Camera Shop Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-293
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from The Camera Shop, a business that operated at Front and Grace Street in Wilmington, N.C. for seventy-two years. Materials include personal, business, and supply correspondence, customer and supplier invoices, advertising correspondence and invoices, job applications, property paperwork, and mail solicitations from 1942-1957. Of note in this collection is correspondence between The Camera Shop and suppliers during World War II, at which time The Camera...
Dates:
1942-1957
Found in:
Special Collections
The Cantwell Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-109
Scope and Contents
The collection includes remarks of Alton A. Lennon of North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, requesting approval for an article from The Star News to be reprinted in The Congressional Record, Saturday, August 7, 1954. The article relates the origin of a salute to our flag with hand over heart first used by Wilmington-Wrightsville Beach resident Elizabeth Cantwell. Mrs. Cantwell describes how this idea germinated and its effect on others. Also included is a brief history of her husband's career...
Dates:
1954, 1968, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
The Complete Book of Terrorism
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-118
Scope and Contents
An unpublished manuscript covering all aspects of terrorism, written by John Pynchon Holms and Thomas J. Burke.
The contents include the history, definition, objectives, and motivations of terrorism and terrorists, covering training, tactics and weapons of modern revolutionaries and criminals. Also outlined is a primer on making bombs and booby traps, "silent" weapons such as knives, and recipes for biological, chemical, and nuclear tactics. Mr. Burke does include chapters on discovery and...
Dates:
1993, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
The Dame Catherine C. Carpender Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-185
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters, pictures, articles, and other memorabilia belonging to Dame Catherine C. Carpender. Born on July 9, 1915 in Virginia and raised in New Brunswick, NJ, Catherine Carpender moved to Wilmington, NC in 1948. For her charitable work with a clinic in Malta, she was made a member of the Order of Malta and was awarded the Cross of Merit. Dame Carpender spent a great deal of time traveling abroad, primarily in the Mediterranean region and India. Boxes number 9...
Dates:
1963-1991, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
The Ficklen Family Private Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-010
Abstract
This group of papers contains letters between Ficklen family members, primarily in Virginia, and documents of the Hamilton family of Kentucky. In addition, there is also an ad in the The Weekly Independent, Fredericksburg, VA placed by J.B. Ficklen & Sons of Fredericksburg, VA. Other items include indentures of sale of land and a will regarding the estate of John Hamilton, Sr. and a family tree compiled by Fitzhugh Ficklen in 1933 (with later additions...
Dates:
1803-1960
Found in:
Special Collections
The Hawk's Eye
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-110
Scope and Contents
The Hawk's Eye was a regular feature article in the Star News written by Carlton Rhodes, a student at Wilmington College. The article was subtitled "News of Wilmington College," and chronicled all the important events and people associated with the college at that time.
Dates:
circa late 1940s-1950s
Found in:
Special Collections
The Lee W. Weaver Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-225
Scope and Contents
This collection contains memorabilia from the European Front of World War II collected by Sgt. Weaver during his service overseas, including memorandums, Special Orders, certificates, photographs correspondence, and postcards.
Dates:
1937-1994; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
Found in:
Special Collections
The Printer's Art Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-084
Abstract
This collection consists of examples of illuminated works, which have been broken into six series: Early Printing and Engraving, Oriental Printing and Engraving, Examples of Paleography, Examples of Book Illumination, Ancient Bible Pages, and Parchment pages.
Dates:
Undetermined
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas A. Moore Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-173
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of personal papers, correspondence, photographs, programs, records, videotapes, and cassette tape recordings covering Mr. Moore’s education and career from 1985-1999. His positions included Deputy to the Executive Director/ Director of Administration & Human Resources for Helen Keller International; Assistant Officer for Volunteers for Missions at the Episcopal Church Center World Mission Unit; Administrative Assistant for Special Parish Ministries and...
Dates:
1985-1999, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas E. Cooper Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-045
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a studio portrait of Thomas E. Cooper as a young man, two printed items, and nineteen items of correspondence. The early handwritten letters, from 1905 to 1907, are primarily from Cooper to his wife, Jane Collins, written while Cooper was working in Mullins, South Carolina. Later letters from 1925 are typewritten to his wife while Cooper was serving a prison sentence in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Cooper had been charged and sentenced, along with...
Dates:
1905-1949
Found in:
Special Collections