This collections contains business documents, newspaper clippings, financial materials, personal papers, notes, and yearbooks related to Margaret T. Harper's work with the Southport Women's Club, local house events and programs, and about her education.

Contains the organizational records, newspaper articles, correspondence, event materials, volunteer documents, etc. of NO PORT Southport, a grassroots group in Southport that formed to oppose the construction of a port in Southport, NC.

The majority of the collection is correspondence from the members of the Fourth of July Committee to organizations or people who they wanted to participate in the festival. In addition to correspondence from the members of the 4th of July Festival board, the collection has VHS tapes of parades and pageants held during the festival and also some unique artifacts like pewter medallions and a red, white, and blue telephone.