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League of Women Voters of the Lower Cape Fear Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-351
Scope and Contents
This collections contains the records of the League of Women Voters of Lower Cape Fear from the early 1960s through present day, including meeting minutes, member rosters, informative guides, voter information, budget statements, publicity materials, and other business relevant to the every day operation of the organization. Based in Southeast North Carolina, of particular interest may be correspondence with government officials both in support of and in opposition to various existing and...
Dates:
1962-2021
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Library Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-07
Scope and Contents
The Library Collection has administrative records beginning in 1947, when Wilmington College opened in New Hanover High School as a two-year county-supported college. The collection includes annual reports, committee records, circulation statistical reports, gift records, newsletters, self-study reports, and photographs. The handwritten accession books are unique pieces in the Wilmington College series of the collection. The University of North Carolina Wilmington series consists of...
Dates:
1947-2019
Found in:
University Archives
Lower Cape Fear Region Maps
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-023
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three maps of New Hanover county. Two maps document the topography and location of sunken blockade runners during the Civil War; the third map is of New Hanover county in 1949.
Dates:
1886-1949
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
McDonald-Howe Family Papers
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
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Melton McLaurin Collection
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
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Murchison Family Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-222
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal and business papers of the Murchison family, specifically of David Reid Murchison, his wife, and his business associates. Items are mostly calling cards, notes, and stationary.
Dates:
1872, 1912, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
New Hanover High School Class of 1951 Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-380
Scope and Contents
This collections contains photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by Perry Whitman related to reunion events for the New Hanover High School Class of 1951. Materials begin in 1976 with the Class' 25th reunion and end in 2011 with their 60th reunion. The scrapbooks contain cards, correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings, obituaries, photographs, reunion planning documents, and an original 1951 commencement program.
Dates:
1976-2011
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
North Carolina Azalea Festival Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-024
Scope and Contents
This collection contains various souvenir books, programs, brochures, magazines, newspaper clippings and other ephemera related to the North Carolina Azalea Festival from 1948-2004. The Azalea Festival began in 1948 at the instigation of Dr. Houston Moore of Wilmington, NC. The first president was Hugh Morton, and Queen Azalea I was Jacqueline White, a movie actress with RKO Studios. Throughout the years, the Festival has filled three to four days with art and craft shows, a parade,...
Dates:
1949-2004
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
North Carolina Indentures
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-120
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over a hundred years worth of North Carolina land indentures, mortgage deeds, and warranty deeds, mostly in Brunswick County. Three documents refer specifically to lots of land in the city of Wilmington, and another refers to land in the State of New York.
Dates:
Other: 1799-1928
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Oscar Pearsall Personal and Business Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-192
Abstract
Oscar Pearsall was a wholesale grocery merchant in Wilmington, North Carolina. He parterned with Benjamin Franklin Hall in 1874 and established Hall & Pearsall, a wholesale grocery and commission business. In 1906, Pearsall launched Pearsall & Company, with two of his sons, Frederick and Horace. This collection contains ledgers, correspondence, bills and shipping labels related to the two companies, as well as medical insurance certificates and related correspodence for Pearsall.
Dates:
1857-1962
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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