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Rehder Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-314
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers relating to the history of the Rehder family in Wilmington, North Carolina. The collection includes original documents, photocopies of original documents, correspondence, and photographs that detail the lives and lineage of Johann and Johanna Rehder beginning in 1844.Rehder family history is represented through both oral history and visual materials including typescripts, genealogical documents, photographs and scrapbooks. Additionally, of...
Dates:
1844-1980
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Robert E. Tapp Private Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-028
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of a family album and other photographs donated by a local Wilmingtonian, Robert E. Tapp, who relocated to Wilmington, NC in approximately 1904 from Somerset, England.
Dates:
1870-1979, Undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-180
Abstract
St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church is located in Wilmington, North Carolina. The church was formed by the merging of two congregations in 1944, St. Andrews Presbyterian and The Church of the Covenant. This collection includes histocial and financial data on the church, its leaders, members and organizations.
Dates:
1858-2009
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
St. James Episcopal Church Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-169
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the archival records of St. James Episcopal Church in Wilmington, North Carolina. Records span the founding of the church in the early 1700s through its modern era in the 21st century. Content represented includes the historical records of the church, day-to-day operations of the vestry, membership registers, clergy papers and correspondence, church events and celebrations, committee and service work, publications, and material related to the national Episcopal...
Dates:
1721-2017
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
St. Paul's Episcopal Church Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-253
Abstract
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was founded in Wilmington, North Carolina by Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, bishop of the diocese of North Carolina in 1858. This collection contains documents, ephemera, minutes, pamphlets, photographs, publications and record books pertaining to the history and operations of the church.
Dates:
1858-1997
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
The Burgwin Family Private Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-013
Scope and Contents
These papers are photocopied typescripts of New Hanover County, NC Deed Book and Will Book records and private letters, copied by Elizabeth McKoy of Wilmington, NC. The deed abstracts are occasionally accompanied by sketches of the area described in the deed. Some of this research material was in Elizabeth McKoy’s book, Early New Hanover County Records, published in 1973.These deeds describe land that eventually evolved into the Hermitage and Castle Haynes...
Dates:
1734-1967 (photocopies)
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
William B. McKoy Collection
Collection
Identifier: LCF-MS-001
Scope and Contents
This collection is the property of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society and is housed in Randall Library Special Collections as part of a long-term loan agreement between the Society and the Library.This collection contains materials pertaining to Wilmington real estate transactions and landownership, organized by block within the original city limits, as well as Eagle Island, Wrightsville Beach, and Masonboro. Material originally belonged to William B. McKoy (1852-1928), a...
Dates:
1801-1928, bulk 1845-1921
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington and New Hanover County Naval Affairs Committee Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-MS-399
Content Description
This collection contains material related to the Wilmington/New Hanover County Naval Affairs Committee from the late 80s-early 2000s. It includes newspaper clippings, slides, correspondence, and meeting material, mostly about the various naval ships that visited Wilmington.
Dates:
1980s-2000s
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records
Collection
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
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections