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Thursday Morning Music Club Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-036
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities Wilmington's Thursday Morning Music Club from its origin in 1892 to 2014, including the club's affiliation with the North Carolina and National Federations of Music Clubs. Represented in the records are minutes, bylaws, banking records, reports, correspondence, member directories, programs, and yearbooks. Of historical significance are the minutes of the club's first meetings documenting its founding members, meeting locations and songs practiced....
Dates:
1892-2014
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
W. D. Sr. and Viola M. Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-207
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers of Wilbur D. Jones, Sr., (1892-1967), a Wilmington banker and World War I veteran, and his wife, Viola Murrell Jones (1903-1973). Materials include newspapers, biographical materials, World War I-era correspondence and memorabilia, reports cards, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper clippings, printed webpages, and realia, including two purses that belonged to Viola M. Jones. Major subjects include World War I and the Independent Order of...
Dates:
1894-2002, bulk 1908-1973
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wallace C. Murchison Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-106
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Wallace C. Murchison (1919-2013). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, grant applications, publications, publicity materials, financial documents, maps, blueprints, brochures, notes, printed materials, and a photograph. Major subjects include the North Carolina Fund, the Wilmington-New Hanover County Good Neighbor Council, the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, and Democratic political campaigns,...
Dates:
1948-1974
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Weather Bureau Station Wilmington, North Carolina Official Documents
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-015
Scope and Contents
These papers consist largely of communications between the central U.S. Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C., and the local weather observation post at Wilmington, N.C. Although the inclusive dates of this group are 1871-1912, all but one of the items fall in the years 1871-1908, with no items from the years 1883-84, 1893-94, 1899, 1905-06, and 1909-11. These papers consist of seven topical series; items within each series are arranged in chronological order. Series 1,...
Dates:
1871 - 1912
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
William B. McKoy Collection
Collection
Identifier: LCF-MS-001
Scope and Contents
This collection is the property of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society and is housed in Randall Library Special Collections as part of a long-term loan agreement between the Society and the Library.This collection contains materials pertaining to Wilmington real estate transactions and landownership, organized by block within the original city limits, as well as Eagle Island, Wrightsville Beach, and Masonboro. Material originally belonged to William B. McKoy (1852-1928), a...
Dates:
1801-1928, bulk 1845-1921
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington and New Hanover County Naval Affairs Committee Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-MS-399
Content Description
This collection contains material related to the Wilmington/New Hanover County Naval Affairs Committee from the late 80s-early 2000s. It includes newspaper clippings, slides, correspondence, and meeting material, mostly about the various naval ships that visited Wilmington.
Dates:
1980s-2000s
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Bird Club
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-321
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documentation of the Wilmington Science Club, founded in 1946 by Edna Appleberry as the Wilmington Bird Club. Included are Appleberry's handwritten field notes from 1947 to 1960 for birds in Wilmington, North Carolina; Appleberry's personal field notebook used from 1956-1959; typed migration, nesting, and field notes spanning from 1947 to 1960; spring bird censuses taken from 1953 to 1959 of bird counts in Wilmington, North Carolina; and correspondence between...
Dates:
1947-1972, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Civitan Club Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-227
Scope and Contents
The Wilmington Civitan Club Records span from the club’s charter in 1938 to 2006. Materials include items such as the club constitution and bylaws, membership lists, newsletters, directories, meeting minutes, typescripts, and brochures on Civitan International and the history of the Wilmington Civitan Club. The collection also contains scholarship material from the club’s annual fruitcake sale and its relationship with the Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina, along with newspaper clippings...
Dates:
1938-2006
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Council of the Navy League Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-238
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 34 photographs that represent an active period of civilian involvement with the Wilmington Council of the Navy League in southeastern North Carolina primarily from the 1950's to the 1960's. The images represent interactions of League members including Gene Edwards, Bobby Tate, and Mayor O.O. Allsbrook, with local military installations and service men. Additional images depict trips taken on behalf of the Wilmington chapter of the Navy League to Washington D.C. and...
Dates:
1940s-1960s, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-397
Scope and Contents
The Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records document the efforts of UNC Wilmington public history professor, Dr. Virginia Stewart, in seeking grant funding from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Services Fund to carry out a preservation assessment of Wilmington’s historic Oakdale and Pine Forest Cemeteries. Upon receiving the award, Stewart coordinated on-site consultations of these cemeteries by preservation professionals Lynette Strangstad and...
Dates:
1993-2002; Majority of material found within 2000-2002
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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