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Katherine Harriss Byers Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-255
Scope and Contents
This collection contains newspaper and magazine articles covering local, national, and world events that were collected by the family of Katherine Harriss Byers.These items include weekly news magazines, Wilmington Shipyard bulletins of WWII, a Newport News & Dry Dock Year Book, a history of NC Shipyard 1941 - 1946, and a news article dated 1934 on President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Among the news items are pictures and articles on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, Pulitzer...
Dates:
1932-1992; Majority of material found within 1941-1945
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-352
Scope and Contents
This collections contains materials related to the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, a shipyard in Wilmington, North Carolina that was created as part of the U.S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. Included in the collection is a typed manuscript documenting the history of the company, a photocopied map of the Maffit Village neighborhood, and 19 photographs and 2 printing plates illustrating the company's grounds, workers and shipbuilding activitives.
Dates:
1941-1946, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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- Cape Fear River (N.C.) 1
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- Broughton, J. Melville (Joseph Melville), 1888-1949 1
- Ferguson, Homer L. (Homer Lenoir), 1873-1953 1
- Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company 1
- North Carolina State Ports Authority 1