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B. D. Schwartz Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-153
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twenty scrapbook albums containing letters, documents, news articles, awards, photos, advertisements, and brochures spanning sixty-seven years. Schwartz held many local and state offices in North Carolina, including Wilmington City Councilman, the Mayor of Wilmington, State Representative, and State Senator. As mayor, Schwartz served during a time of civil unrest surrounding the Wilmington Ten and established a chapter of the Human Relations Commission...
Dates:
1918-1993
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Dr. Frank Ainsley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-324
Scope and Contents
Dr. W. Frank Ainsley was a long-time professor in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. These papers contain materials collected by him during his academic and research careers and focus geographical concerns in southeastern North Carolina primarily during the 1970s to 1990s. Included are journal articles, newspapers, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, notes, photographs, correspondence, maps, and other similar research materials. Although the...
Dates:
1858 - 2008
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Friedrich Brauer Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-060
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of printed materials, pamphlets, broadsides, postcards, flyers, newspapers and other ephemera, related to the study of Germany during World War I, of the post war political and economic conditions of the Weimar Republic, and of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party. Part of the collection consists of German campaign materials from the late 1920s and early 1930s. Photographs include a few of the Brauer family and one of the grave site of...
Dates:
1847-1958; Majority of material found within 1914-1933
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Jane Brister World War II Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-237
Scope and Contents
This collection contains notes, photographs, and lists concerning the displacement of the Melster Family by the Nazis and the later repatriation of their property, as well as materials related to Jane Brister's return of two vases to Linderhoff Castle and an unrelated postcard addressed to Brister.
Dates:
1930-2001; Majority of material found within 1974-1985
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
M.W. Godwin Linda Darnell Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-154
Scope and Contents
The M.W. Godwin Linda Darnell Collection was assembled by Minot West Godwin, a passionate fan and collector, and consists of two major parts. The first relates to Godwin and his research, correspondence, and some non-Darnell materials. The majority of the collection consists of material relating to Linda Darnell, including personal papers, content related to the production and exhibition of her films, clippings, and ephemera. These include but are not limited to over 4,000 photos (studio,...
Dates:
circa 1910s-1936 (photocopies), 1936-1998; Majority of material found within 1936-1966
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Rabbi Samuel Mendelsohn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-058
Scope and Contents
This collection contains over two hundred sermons, lectures, addresses and letters written by Rabbi Samuel Mendelsohn in the 1870s-1880s. Sermons were written for congregants at Beth-El in Norfolk, Virginia and later at the Temple of Israel in Wilmington. Rabbi Mendelsohn's lectures and addresses were often performed for his congregants, but he also made addresses at other synagogues or public venues, such as The Opera House (now Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts) in Wilmington,...
Dates:
1871-1969; Majority of material found within 1871-1887
Found in:
Randall Library 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:
Randall Library Special Collections
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