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Robert J. Cooke Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-214
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of material collected by Robert J. Cooke from various presidential elections from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, primarily at the respective Democratic Conventions. Items include copies of speeches, pamphlets, publications, press badges, ads, biographies, and campaign material. Candidates of note include Governor George C. Wallace, President Jimmy Carter, and President Bill Clinton. A selection of Cooke's research on the Rorison family of Wilmington, North...
Dates:
1967-2013, undated; Majority of material found in 1976, 1992
Found in:
Special Collections
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
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
Stanley Rehder Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-373
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers and audiovisual materials relating to Stanley Rehder's World War II experience and work as a Venus flytrap enthusiast. The World War II series of this collection includes newspaper clippings and research pertaining to the 1944 Christmas Eve sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville. Rehder was a lieutenant aboard the ship at the time, and this collection includes the writings Rehder created to memorialize the event as well as documents of Rehder's veteran organization....
Dates:
1946-2012
Found in:
Special Collections
Susan Taylor Block's Collection of Van Eeden Research
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-121
Scope and Contents
This collection contains information regarding the second iteration of Van Eeden farm colony in the 1940s, gathered as research material by local author Susan Taylor Block for her 1995 publication, Van Eeden. The first series of the collection features photocopies of original material from the Alvin Johnson Economic Papers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This mainly includes correspondence between Alvin Johnson, the founder of the new colony, and the...
Dates:
1938-1995
Found in:
Special Collections
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 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
U.S. Military Ships, Bases, and Operations Photographs and Plans
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-071
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs and plans that span thirty-one years of U.S. military history at sea. Of note in the collection are twenty-one photos of Japanese bombing and aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
Dates:
1932-1963
Found in:
Special Collections
USO Club, Jacksonville NC Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-195
Scope and Contents
This collection specifically deals with nearly sixty years of operations with the United Service Organization (USO) in Jacksonville, NC, including information on the post-WWII era segregated USO. Materials on national and international USO operations from the WWII era to the 1980s are also among the collection.Material consists of numerous photographs, publications, newspapers, operations and budget reports, council meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, event press,...
Dates:
1913-2011
Found in:
Special Collections
Virginia Harriss Holland World War II Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-312
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal correspondence and ration paperwork from Lt. Commander David S. Harriss's service in the United States Navy from 1942-1945. The rations are for non-highway gasoline and include two gasoline ration coupons, a mileage rationing record, and a basic mileage ration coupon book. This collection also includes an Alcoholic Beverage Control Sales Permit made out to Elizabeth H. Harriss and a letter regarding a "change of duty" to David Harriss from the Bureau of...
Dates:
1942-1945
Found in:
Special Collections