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Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-04
Scope and Contents
The Academic Affairs Collection consists of administrative records pertaining to curricula, institutional research, and supporting academic services at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and its predecessor Wilmington College. The collection demonstrates an evolving higher education mission, starting with the school's establishment as a locally funded two-year college through its transformation into a leading public research university. A significant part of the collection is from...
Dates:
1947-2023
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-02
Scope and Contents
This record group includes information by and about the Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1958 to the present. Files include official, signed meeting minutes, committee meeting minutes, subject files,correspondence, clippings, membership rosters, and photographs.
Dates:
1958 - 2021
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-046
Scope and Contents
This extensive collection includes the original materials and photocopies of the legal actions instituted by Dr. Eaton and his fellow plaintiffs to compel the integration of the fundamental institutions of New Hanover County--the public schools and the hospital--in the 1960s and 1970s. Moreover, the collection also reflects the broad spectrum of Dr. Eaton's interests and activities which included medical and public health issues, education, civil rights and athletics.A gifted...
Dates:
1941-1993
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-271
Scope and Contents
Dr. William H. Wagoner served as the Superintendent of the New Hanover county school system from 1961-1968, as the fourth President of Wilmington College from 1968-1969 and as the first Chancellor of the University of North Carolina Wilmington from 1969-1990. This collection contains correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings, agendas, photographs, maps and ephemera related to the careers of Dr. Wagoner in Wilmington as well as his personal life.
Dates:
1959-1990
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-24
Scope and Contents
This collection brings together prints, slides and negatives, many of which were used in campus publications such as the yearbook, student newspaper, course catalogs, and alumni publications. There are color as well as black and white photographs. The different photographic formats are interfiled. The collection includes photographs of athletics, student life, and academics, as well as special events and university advancement activities from the college's founding until the early 2000s.
Dates:
1948-2009
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-107
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research materials from Mary Bason Broadfoot pertaining to an article she wrote on the Kenan House property in Wilmington, North Carolina for the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin. Materials include correspondence between Broadfoot and Kenan family descendants, interview notes with the Sarah Graham Kenan's long-time chauffer Denver Clarence Padrick, and drafts of Broadfoot's article. The collection also documents miscellaneous aspects of Kenan...
Dates:
1864-1972
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
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-03
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of administrative files from the Presidents and Chancellors of the institution, including correspondence, accreditation reports, installation and inauguration programs, biographical information, and photographs. Files from the first two presidents, Thomas T. Hamilton and John T. Hoggard, contain information on the establishment and administration of the two-year Wilmington College. Topics from William Madison Randall's service as the last president of Wilmington...
Dates:
1952-2011
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-06
Scope and Contents
The Public Service and Continuing Studies Collection contains records pertaining to the administrative history of public service, extended education, and continuing studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington beginning in 1970. The collection include include annual reports, marketing materials, news releases, course catalogs, and photographs. The largest series is Community Services and Programs with files about the university's professional education, adult education, youth...
Dates:
1970-2019
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-090
Abstract
This collection contains the personal papers of Thomas T. Hamilton, first President of Wilmington College and long time Principal of New Hanover High School. With inclusive dates of 1948-1989, the collection includes Hamilton's curriculum vitae, newspaper articles, photographs, a letter, and a typed report. These papers focus on Hamilton's career change in 1949 and his involvement with Wilmington College.
Dates:
1948-1989
