Showing Collections: 1 - 6 of 6
Alton A. Lennon Congressional Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-031
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Congressman Alton Lennon during his tenure as U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 7th congressional district from 1957-1972. Included in the collection is correspondence, reports, and other documents related to legislation, district affairs, and politics during the time. Also included are three large scrapbooks documenting news coverage from Congressman Lennon's career and campaigns.
Dates:
1953-1973
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
B. D. Schwartz Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-153
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twenty scrapbook albums documenting the life and career of Benjamin David (B.D.) Schwartz, his wife Sylvia, and their family beginning in 1918 and ending in 1993. Schwartz, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, moved to Wilmington as young child. He attended local schools, worked at his father’s furniture business, and assisted his family in establishing the B’nai Israel Synagogue. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill, he returned to the port city and continued working...
Dates:
1918-1993
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Democratic Congressional Committee Advance Sheet Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-081
Abstract
"Easily Found" is an Advance Sheet issued by the Democratic Congressional Committee ca 1880, during the campaign for President of the United States in which James Garfield (Republican) ran against Winfield S. Hancock (Democrat).
Dates:
circa 1880
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
John J. Burney, Jr. Legislative Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-033
Scope and Contents
This collections contains the legislative papers of North Carolina State Senator John J. Burney, Jr. Senator Burney represented New Hanover County from 1966-1972. The legislative papers consist primarily of correspondence, bills, publications, printed materials and newspaper clippings, covering a broad spectrum of social, economic and political issues during his time in office. Topics include taxation, environmentalism, transportation and infrastructure, Wilmington College (now UNCW), and...
Dates:
1960 - 1972
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Kennedy Family Political Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-247
Scope and Contents
This collection contains videocassettes, framed photographs, campaign buttons, bumper stickers, autographs and other memorabilia related to the lives and political campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. The collection also contains an autographed Pro Set Senior PGA Tour card featuring Sam Snead.
Dates:
1967-2004
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
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Political Campaigns -- North Carolina 4
- Politicians 4
- United States -- Politics and government -- Sources 4
- Legislators -- North Carolina 2
- North Carolina -- Politics and government 2
- Political campaigns 2
- Presidential candidates 2
- Advertising, political -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- African Americans -- Political activity -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina 1
- Annexation (Municipal government) -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Bank fraud 1
- Bankers -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Children with disabilities -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina 1
- City planning -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States 1
- Civil service -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Clubs -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Crédit Mobilier scandal 1
- Discrimination in municipal services -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Economic development -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Education -- New Hanover County (N.C.) 1
- Elections -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Environmentalism -- North Carolina 1
- Festivals -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Fort Fisher State Recreation Area (N.C.) 1
- Israel -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
- Jews -- History -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Local government -- North Carolina -- New Hanover County -- Evaluation 1
- Low-income housing -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Masonboro Island (N.C.) 1
- Mayors -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Montford Point Camp (Camp Lejeune, N.C.) 1
- New Hanover County (N.C.) 1
- North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
- Ordinances, Municipal -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Political campaigns -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- Riots -- North Carolina -- Wilmington -- History 1
- School integration -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- White supremacy movements -- North Carolina -- New Hanover County 1
- Wilmington (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Wilmington (N.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Wilmington College -- History -- Sources 1
- Women's rights -- North Carolina 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- History -- Sources 1
- Zoning -- North Carolina -- Wilmington 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- correspondence 1 ∧ less
- Language
- French 1
- German 1
- Hebrew 1
- Yiddish 1
- Names
- United States. Congress. 2
- Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 1
- Burney, John Jay, Jr., 1924-2010 1
- Cooper, Thomas E., 1883-1949 1
- Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
- Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
- Lennon, Alton, 1906-1986 1
- New Hanover High School (Wilmington, N.C.) 1
- North Carolina State Ports Authority 1
- North Carolina. Governor (1925-1929 : McLean) 1
- Schwartz, B. D. (Benjamin David), 1909-2001 1
- Schwartz, Sylvia Wolk, 1911-1997 1
- Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy, 1951- 1
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington 1
- Wilmington College 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more