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Army Corps of Engineers Aerial Photos of NC Coast and Selected Coastal Areas
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-133
Scope and Contents
Aerial photographs of peat farming operations in coastal northeastern North Carolina, and Army Corps of Engineers aerial surveys of NC shoreline 1976, 1978, 1981, 1984, including First Colony Farms, NC shoreline, Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and Albemarle Peninsula.
Dates:
1976, 1978, 1981, 1984
Found in:
Special Collections
Consuelo Berkman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-290
Scope and Contents
Consuelo "Connie" Berkman was an artist and photographer in Wilmington, North Carolina and the adopted daughter of well-known artist, Jack Berkman. The Consuelo Berkman Papers contain artwork, correspondence, personal journals, photographs, yearbooks, and other materials dating from 1968 to her death in 1996. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Berkman's photography and includes thousands of prints, slides, negatives, and contact sheets documenting daily life in and around the...
Dates:
1968 - 1996
Found in:
Special Collections
Patricia O'Meara Robbins and Carroll Robbins Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-341
Scope and Contents
This collection features the photography of Patricia O'Meara Robbins and the family research her daughter, Carroll Robbins Jones, compiled with her husband, Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., to write their book about Patricia's life and career--"She 'Shot' Her Way to Success: How China's Empress Dowager Ci Xi Launched a Photographer's Trailblazing Career," published in 2016. Some of the photographs were also featured in a 2001 book the Jones' wrote, "Hawaii Goes to War: The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor,"...
Dates:
circa 1870-2013; Majority of material found in 1933-1959
Found in:
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:
Special Collections