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Frederick D. Poisson Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-MS-170

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a copy book owned by Wilmington attorney Frederick D. Poisson. This particular book still has the instructions for how to use a copying book on the back of the front cover.

Poisson recorded information such as financial transactions and correspondence in the book. Notable Wilmington citizens are mentioned including, Cantwell, Carr, Cameron, McIver, MacRae, Pearsall, Sprunt, Sutton, and Waddell.

Dates: 1873-1876

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

From These Beginnings: Wilmington College 1946-1969

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-092

Scope and Contents

This collection includes various working drafts and notes for Dr. J. Marshall Crews' book, From These Beginnings: Wilmington College, 1946-1969. This book chronicles the early development of Wilmington College, which later developed into the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Dates: 1980-1982

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Gene Merritt Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-396

Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper articles, documents, and ephemera about Gene Merritt's work with the revitalization of Downtown Wilmington and DARE (Downtown Area Revitalization Effort), later Wilmington Downtown, Inc. from the 1980s-2000s.

Dates: 1980-2003

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

General William MacRae and Colonel Walker Taylor Biographies

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-039

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the biographies of two prominent Wilmingtonians, General William MacRae and Colonel Walker Taylor. Both items are photocopies of the original. MacRae served with the Confederacy in the Civil War and worked as a civil engineer for the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Taylor served as a community and civic leader, and in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson named him the U.S. Collector of Customs for the Wilmington Port.

Dates: Undated

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Grainger Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-342

Scope and Contents

Contains historical letters, deeds, and documents belonging to the Grainger family of Wilmington, NC, including deeds from Eagle Island and correspondence with American historian John Hope Franklin regarding the 1898 Wilmington race riot.

Dates: 1869-2017; Majority of material found within 1871-1898

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Hannah Soloman Block Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-181

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters, cards, invitations, programs, news clippings and full length newspapers, magazines, postcards, notes, and a manuscript. Three albums of photos, political and pageant buttons, letters, and awards are included in these albums. Also included are WWII-era items such as Civil Defense ID cards, Red Cross membership materials, ration books for food and gasoline, V-mail, and information on USO dances.

Dates: 1935-1998

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Herman Blizzard Rotary Archive

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-215

Scope and Contents This collection contains the archive of the Wilmington Rotary Club, established in 1915. The original donation of materials were collected, organized, and maintained by long time Rotary member, Herman Blizzard. Included are materials related to routine club business including minutes, newsletters, correspondence, financial documents, and photographs. Blizzard also kept personal files related to Rotary including letters, cards, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, artifacts, documented histories...

Dates: 1915-2019

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

Images of UNCW Collection

Collection

Identifier: UA-RG-24

Scope and Contents

This collection brings together prints, slides and negatives, many of which were used in campus publications such as the yearbook, student newspaper, course catalogs, and alumni publications. There are color as well as black and white photographs. The different photographic formats are interfiled. The collection includes photographs of athletics, student life, and academics, as well as special events and university advancement activities from the college's founding until the early 2000s.

Dates: 1948-2009

Found in: University Archives

Isabel M. Williams Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-241

Scope and Contents Contains bound volumes of the publication Thalian Hall, an unbound master copy of the publication with images, correspondence, copies of newspaper articles, notes, and a Star-News supplement from 1976; program from the re-opening of Thalian Hall; materials gathered from Isabel William’s travels around the world, including notebooks with typed observations of her experience and original watercolor map illustrations. Includes one publication written by Williams on the bicentennial of the...

Dates: 1980s-2000s

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

James R. Womble Civil War Letter

Collection

Identifier: SC-MS-043

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a letter written by James R. Womble, a Confederate soldier, to his father, Thomas Womble. Womble was a laborer in Company A, 2nd Battalion, North Carolina Local Defense troops, of the Arsenal Guard. His letter is dated January 20, 1865. It was written from the City Courthouse of Wilmington and describes the fall of Fort Fisher.

Dates: 1865 January 20

Found in: Randall Library Special Collections

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Frederick D. Poisson Collection

From These Beginnings: Wilmington College 1946-1969

Gene Merritt Papers

General William MacRae and Colonel Walker Taylor Biographies

Grainger Family Papers

Hannah Soloman Block Collection

Herman Blizzard Rotary Archive

Images of UNCW Collection

Isabel M. Williams Papers

James R. Womble Civil War Letter

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