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Thomas Fanning Wood, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-151
Scope and Contents
This collection contains business records, cancelled checks, notes and bills collected during Thomas Wood Jr's association with Alexander Sprunt & Son. Wood represented Alexander Sprunt & Son in New York and Europe, mainly the Netherlands and France. The overseas cablegrams relating to business matters are in code.
The collection also contains correspondence with the Sarah Leigh Clinic in Norfolk, VA. These letters concern Mrs. Wood and her battle with breast cancer. Also included...
Dates:
1907-1926
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Tom Summers Sports Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-327
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides and game day programs mainly from SC colleges, universities and high schools that were collected by Tom Summers. A few items from professional sports are included. Also included in the collection are sports magazines and books, photos, newspapers articles, and other memorabilia, as well as Summers’ published newspaper columns and books, Hunkering Down: My Story in Four Decades of Clinical Pastoral Education and Want a Frog?...
Dates:
1944-2012
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
University of North Carolina Wilmington Landmark Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-268
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Landmark Committee and Historical Events Committee, both of which were convened at the request of the University's Board of Trustees to complete work for a project associated with the University Commons site. The Landmark Committee was tasked with identifying an appropriate landmark to place in the University Commons outdoor space in companionship with its landscaping plan. Once the Landmark Committee's...
Dates:
1982-1987
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wayne Jackson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-104
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials pertaining to the career of Wayne Jackson, a broadcaster for southeastern North Carolina NBC television affiliate WECT (formerly WMFD). In particular, this collection documents three important events in Wilmington College history including the first televised basketball game in the region (that of the Virgina-Carolina Athletic Conference Junior College Basketball Tournament championship game), a dinner held for the Seahawks baseball team following their...
Dates:
1954-1974
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Weather Bureau Station Wilmington, North Carolina Official Documents
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-015
Scope and Contents
These papers consist largely of communications between the central U.S. Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C., and the local weather observation post at Wilmington, N.C. Although the inclusive dates of this group are 1871-1912, all but one of the items fall in the years 1871-1908, with no items from the years 1883-84, 1893-94, 1899, 1905-06, and 1909-11. These papers consist of seven topical series; items within each series are arranged in chronological order. Series 1,...
Dates:
1871 - 1912
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wessel & Eilers Business Ledger
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-002
Scope and Contents
H.B. Eilers and J. Wessell opened a wholesale grocery and liquor business December 8, 1851 in Wilmington. The business was located at No. 1 and 2 of P.K. Dickinson’s Building on North Water Street. This collection consists of a ledger book for the firm that covers 1853 – 1856. The ledger has an alphabetical index in the front and contains 557 pages of entries.
Dates:
1853-1856, 1984
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
William J. Hoke Captain's Commission
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-012
Abstract
This collection contains a commission for William J. Hoke as a Captain of the Southern Guards, a Rifle Company attached to the Seventieth Regiment, North Carolina Militia, on December 11, 1850. His commission was signed by North Carolina Governor Charles Manly and his private secretary, Andrew J. Terrill.
Dates:
1850
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Art Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-198
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the records of the Wilmington Art Association, which was founded in 1971 and is the second organization to use this name. Included are articles of incorporation, by-laws, mailing lists, and newsletters. The collection also contains three scrapbooks, which document the artists and events associated with the organization over the course of thirty years. The scrapbooks include ephemera, flyers, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and artist spotlights. The...
Dates:
1971-1999
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington, NC and the Lower Cape Fear Area During the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-026
Scope and Contents
Excerpts of letters, diaries, papers, and published materials comprise the body of this research collection, which relate specifically to Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear (LCF) during the Civil War. Subjects include troop movements, civilian life, shipping, prisoners of war, and military engagements. Wilmington was the last Confederate port to be captured; blockading and blockade runners and the defense and capture of Fort Fisher are especially well represented. Items of local...
Dates:
1855, 1861-1865, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898 Coup D'état (Newspapers)
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-132
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of issues of the Wilmington Daily Record, The Evening Dispatch, and fragments of the New York Journal around the time of and covering the Wilmington coup in 1898. The Journal makes explicit reference to the "riots" in Wilmington, gives the death toll as sixteen killed, and reprints the text of the Alex Manley...
Dates:
1898 (photocopies)
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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