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The Black Poet Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-094
Scope and Contents
The Black Poet was the 1865 annouced title of a work to be published that was to contain "a concise history of the life" of George Moses Horton, bard and recently freed enslaved individual. Richard Walser used the 1865 title for his 1996 work on Horton, since no evidence exists that the 1865 book was ever written. Walser wrote his "concise history" during part of a year he spent on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Claude Howell created the drawings for the book. This collection contains the...
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
The Camera Shop Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-293
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records from The Camera Shop, a business that operated at Front and Grace Street in Wilmington, N.C. for seventy-two years. Materials include personal, business, and supply correspondence, customer and supplier invoices, advertising correspondence and invoices, job applications, property paperwork, and mail solicitations from 1942-1957. Of note in this collection is correspondence between The Camera Shop and suppliers during World War II, at which time The Camera...
Dates:
1942-1957
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
The Cantwell Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-109
Scope and Contents
The collection includes remarks of Alton A. Lennon of North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, requesting approval for an article from The Star News to be reprinted in The Congressional Record, Saturday, August 7, 1954. The article relates the origin of a salute to our flag with hand over heart first used by Wilmington-Wrightsville Beach resident Elizabeth Cantwell. Mrs. Cantwell describes how this idea germinated and its effect on others. Also included is a brief history of her husband's career...
Dates:
1954, 1968, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Thomas E. Cooper Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-045
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a studio portrait of Thomas E. Cooper as a young man, two printed items, and nineteen items of correspondence. The early handwritten letters, from 1905 to 1907, are primarily from Cooper to his wife, Jane Collins, written while Cooper was working in Mullins, South Carolina. Later letters from 1925 are typewritten to his wife while Cooper was serving a prison sentence in the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. Cooper had been charged and sentenced, along with...
Dates:
1905-1949
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Thomas J. Armstrong Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-001
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection consists of letters written by Thomas J. Armstrong's son, Edward Hall Armstrong, during the Civil War. Also included are: a photograph of Edward, his officer commissions, and his book on military tactics, eulogies for Edward by various persons, a letter from Edward's body servant--an enslaved person named Moses, and miscellaneous letters and documents from other family members, including Thomas's boyhood reminiscences, a receipt for sale of an enslaved person, and...
Dates:
1859-1885
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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 System Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-01
Scope and Contents
This record group includes records pertaining to North Carolina's public universities, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and/or the University of North Carolina Wilmington as a constituent institution of the system. This record group does not provide a comprehensive administrative history of the University of North Carolina System. Rather, it consolidates materials from and about the multicampus University of North Carolina that had been collected by various UNC Wilmington...
Dates:
1969-1990
Found in:
University Archives
University of North Carolina Wilmington Academic Affairs Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-RG-04
Scope and Contents
The University of North Carolina Wilmington Academic Affairs Records consists of administrative materials 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...
Dates:
1947-2023
Found in:
University Archives
University of North Carolina Wilmington Board of Trustees Records
Record Group
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, correspondence, clippings, membership rosters, and other materials pertinent to university governance and administration.
Dates:
1958-2021
Found in:
University Archives