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Wilmington Bird Club

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Identifier: SC-MS-321
Scope and Contents This collection contains documentation of the Wilmington Science Club, founded in 1946 by Edna Appleberry as the Wilmington Bird Club. Included are Appleberry's handwritten field notes from 1947 to 1960 for birds in Wilmington, North Carolina; Appleberry's personal field notebook used from 1956-1959; typed migration, nesting, and field notes spanning from 1947 to 1960; spring bird censuses taken from 1953 to 1959 of bird counts in Wilmington, North Carolina; and correspondence between...
Dates: 1947-1972, undated

Wilmington Civitan Club Records

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Identifier: SC-MS-227
Scope and Contents The Wilmington Civitan Club Records span from the club’s charter in 1938 to 2006. Materials include items such as the club constitution and bylaws, membership lists, newsletters, directories, meeting minutes, typescripts, and brochures on Civitan International and the history of the Wilmington Civitan Club. The collection also contains scholarship material from the club’s annual fruitcake sale and its relationship with the Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina, along with newspaper clippings...
Dates: 1938-2006

Wilmington Council of the Navy League Photographs

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Identifier: SC-MS-238
Scope and Contents This collection contains 34 photographs that represent an active period of civilian involvement with the Wilmington Council of the Navy League in southeastern North Carolina primarily from the 1950's to the 1960's. The images represent interactions of League members including Gene Edwards, Bobby Tate, and Mayor O.O. Allsbrook, with local military installations and service men. Additional images depict trips taken on behalf of the Wilmington chapter of the Navy League to Washington D.C. and...
Dates: 1940s-1960s, undated

Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records

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Identifier: SC-MS-397
Scope and Contents The Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records document the efforts of UNC Wilmington public history professor, Dr. Virginia Stewart, in seeking grant funding from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Services Fund to carry out a preservation assessment of Wilmington’s historic Oakdale and Pine Forest Cemeteries. Upon receiving the award, Stewart coordinated on-site consultations of these cemeteries by preservation professionals Lynette Strangstad and...
Dates: 1993-2002; Majority of material found within 2000-2002

Wilmington Movement 1971

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Identifier: SC-MS-108
Scope and Contents This collection contains sixteen original articles from the Wilmington Morning Star and its joint Sunday edition with the Wilmington News, the Star-News (all now merged into the Wilmington Star-News), and two from Raleigh's The News and Observer, chronicling the events leading to and during the racial unrest centering around the...
Dates: 1971 February 03 - October 03

Wilmington, NC and the Lower Cape Fear Area During the Civil War

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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

Wilmington, N.C. Shipping Correspondence

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Identifier: SC-MS-139
Scope and Contents

This collection contains eight pages of correspondence, including invoices to William R. Bowers (of William R. Bowers and Co.) in Providence, Rhode Island during the 1830s. Goods were shipped from Wilmington, N.C. by Lazarus and Whitmarsh, John W. Fisher, and D.B. Hood.

Dates: 1832-1838

Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898 Coup D'état (Newspapers)

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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)

Wilmington, North Carolina Historic Buildings Survey

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Identifier: SC-MS-029
Scope and Contents The Junior League of Wilmington began a survey of Wilmington’s historic buildings in 1974. The league extracted data from courthouse records and the Sanford Insurance maps and wrote on-site descriptions. This research was the basis of "Old Wilmington Guidebook," which the Junior League published in 1978.The papers are filed in 249 folders, each folder labeled with the street name and number and, if appropriate, the name of the building or item. Folders contain some or all of the...
Dates: 1974-1978

"Wilmington Riot of November 10, 1898" Source Documents

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Identifier: SC-MS-069
Scope and Contents This collection was compiled in 1973 by Michael Glancy, to complete his Multiple Abilities Project research report entitled "The Wilmington Riot of November 10, 1898." The collection includes xerographic, microform, and photocopies of newspaper and periodical articles, letters, memoranda, resolutions, and memoirs of some of the principal participants in the November 10, 1898 racially-motivated coup d'etat of Wilmington, NC. Featured persons include Alfred Moore Waddell, Senator Marion...
Dates: 1865-1936 (photocopies)

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University of North Carolina, Wilmington 9
James Walker Memorial Hospital 5
Wilmington College 5
1898 Centennial Foundation (Wilmington, N.C.) 3
Bellamy, Heyward C., Dr., 1924-2014 3
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New Hanover High School (Wilmington, N.C.) 3
North Carolina Azalea Festival (1948-) 3
Thalian Hall (Wilmington, N.C.) 3
Eaton, Hubert A., Dr. (Hubert Arthur), 1916-1991 2
Episcopal Church 2
Episcopal Church. Diocese of East Carolina 2
Jones, Pembroke, 1858-1919 2
League of Women Voters of the Lower Cape Fear 2
Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998 2
United States. Navy 2
Waddell, Alfred M. (Alfred Moore), 1834-1912 2
Wilmington College. Board of Trustees 2
Albritton, Jana, 1954- 1
Allsbrook, O.O. (Ogden Olmstead), 1899-1974 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
American Tennis Association 1
AnimEigo, Inc 1
Babcock, W. F. (Willard F.), 1917-1991 1
Bellamy Mansion Museum 1
Bellamy, Ellen Douglas, 1852-1946 1
Berkman, Consuelo, 1949-1996 1
Berkman, Jack I., 1908-1999 1
Betz, Donald H. (Donald Henry) 1
Bingham, Mary Lily Kenan, 1867-1917 1
Block, Hannah, 1913-2009 1
Block, Nathan Ellis, 1903-1986 1
Block, Susan Taylor, 1951- 1
Boys' Brigade 1
Bradley, Amy Morris, 1823-1904 1
Brown University 1
Burney, John Jay, Jr., 1924-2010 1
Butler, Marion, 1863-1938 1
Cain, Robert J. 1
Cameron, Bruce Barclay, 1890-1944 1
Cameron, Daniel David, 1921-2005 1
Cameron, George Wallace, 1873-1939 1
Cameron, Lottie Fales, 1894-1960 1
Chavis, Ben, 1948- 1
Civitan International 1
Community Action Program (U.S.) 1
Community Hospital (Wilmington, NC) 1
Conser, Walter H. 1
Cooper, Thomas E., 1883-1949 1
Cotton, Nada McDonald, 1895-1977 1
Craven Operation Progress, Inc 1
Crews, J. Marshall, 1910-2010 1
Cronly family 1
Cronly, Michael, 1826-1898 1
Cronly, Robert Dixon, Jr., 1894-1968 1
Cutlar, DuBrutz, 1832-1898 1
Cutlar, DuBrutz, 1866-1905 1
Davis, Champion McDowell 1
DeCoursey, Francine 1
Democratic National Committee (U.S.) 1
Democratic National Convention 1
Edwards, W. Eugene, 1910-2006 1
Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006 1
Evans, Anchram Harris, 1838-1911 1
Evans, Elizabeth Robinson Kelly, 1844-1910 1
Evans, Merrill Jennings, 1904-1993 1
Faircloth, Lauch, 1928- 1
Fechtig, Alice Morriss, 1896-1971 1
Ford Foundation 1
Foundation for Community Development 1
Frinks, Golden Asro, 1920-2004 1
Gerard, Philip 1
Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003 1
Halyburton, William David, Jr., 1924-1945 1
Hayes, Sherman, 1948- 1
Helms, Jesse 1
Hemenway, Mary, 1820-1894 1
Hogue, Cyrus D., Jr., 1921-2017 1
Howe family 1
Howe, Alfred, 1817-1892 1
Howe, Tenah, -1852 1
Howell, Claude, 1915-1997 1
Jones, Viola Murrell 1
Jones, Wilbur D., 1934- 1
Jones, Wilbur David, 1892-1967 1
Junior League of Wilmington 1
Kenan family 1
Kenan, Sarah Graham, 1876-1968 1
Kenan, Thomas S., III 1
Kidder, Ann Potter, 1812-1872 1
Kidder, Edward Hartwell, 1840-1921 1
Kidder, Edward, 1805-1885 1
Kidder, Frederick, 1848-1908 1
Kirton, Edwin E. , Reverend, 1907-1986 1
Learning Institute of North Carolina 1
Lennon, Alton, 1906-1986 1
Love, Anna Parsley, 1886-1973 1
Low Income Housing Development Corporation of North Carolina 1
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society 1
MacRae, William, 1834-1882 1
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company 1
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