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Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-022
Scope and Contents
These records are primarily deeds for land in Craven County, North Carolina ranging in date from 1724 to 1882. Included are a Lord’s Proprietors’ land grant, two king’s grants, a North Carolina state grant, several deeds, and some maps and descriptions of land tracts. Several deeds are transfers, made throughout the years, which consist of either part, or all the same parcel of land. Cross-references are made in the inventory to the most obvious of these grants. There are also letters and a...
Dates:
1724-1882, 1950
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-009
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal correspondence and private papers of the Wilmington-based Cronly family, primarily related Margaret M. Cronly (1827-1911), and her children Jane Murphy Cronly (1850-1935), Sallie Taylor Cronly (1852-1913), Michael Cronly (1858-1930), Joseph Murphy Cronly (1858-1907), William Neil Cronly (1860-1904), Robert Dickson Cronly (1863-1936), Douglas Tennent Cronly (1865-1931), Margaret Cronly (1868-1947), and Mary Douglas Cronly (1871-1949). Other family members...
Dates:
1888-1925
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-264
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and other documents associated with Cyrus Hogue's involvement in advocating for a new bridge crossing over the Cape Fear River in Wilmington. After decades of campaigning by local citizens, the Wilmington bridge project finally came to fruition with the completion of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge in 1969. Hogue, a local Wilmington lawyer and Chairman of the Democratic Party, was instrumental in working the State Highway Commission and Governor Terry...
Dates:
1962-1969
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-296
Scope and Contents
This collection contains original handbills and posters promoting surf film screenings in the greater Wilmington area, as well as sales flyers for a local surfboard shop called America Surfboards.
Dates:
1978, undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-197
Scope and Contents
This collection contains class lectures, research, experiments, various publications, photographs and other information dealing with Lindquist's career.
Dates:
Undetermined
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-081
Abstract
"Easily Found" is an Advance Sheet issued by the Democratic Congressional Committee ca 1880, during the campaign for President of the United States in which James Garfield (Republican) ran against Winfield S. Hancock (Democrat).
Dates:
circa 1880
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-053
Scope and Contents
This collection contains audio-visual materials from the DeVries-Bulluck company. Formats include beta, 16mm and 35mm film, as well as other rare formats. Videos contain both raw and completed footage of local interest segments, advertisements and public service annoucements in Wilmington during the 1970s and 1980s. Additionally, there are several notebooks in the collection that provide detailed descriptions of the footage in the collection.
Dates:
1970-1985
Collection — Box: Misc. MS Box 4, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: SC-MS-364
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photos, pamphlets, printed documents, and a nursing cape related to nurse Diane Satterfield and her education at the James Walker Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Wilmington, NC.
Dates:
1952-1985
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-135
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of original documents, letters, financial records and printed material dealing with the establishment of free public schools in Wilmington, North Carolina after the Civil War. The correspondence details the financial support for school construction, teacher recruitment, and administration provided by the Massachusetts Soldiers Memorial Society, Mary Hemenway, Amy Bradley and the American Unitarian Association for what came to be known as Wilmington School District...
Dates:
1865-1924
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-105
Scope and Contents
The Virginia Carolina Chemical Company, (VCC Co.), manufactured fertilizers throughout the United States. The collection concentrates on those factories located in North Carolina, Virginia, and the Midwest. Beginning in 1861 and ending in 1966, this collection contains numerous business documents, articles of incorporation, by-laws, deeds, correspondence, and photographs related to Virginia Carolina Chemical Company.
Dates:
1861-1966
