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Dr. William Sisson Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-128
Scope and Contents
This collection contains official publications dealing with a variety of New Hanover County isssues such as housing, land use, waste management, transportation, population, public health, and the environment including groundwater and soil and drainage surveys. The collection also includes maps, correspondence dealing with proposed changes in Highway 421, and memoranda to the County Commission.
Dates:
1970-1997
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Dr. William Sutton WWII Publications Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-MS-355
Scope and Contents
This collection contains issues of "Yank Magazine" and the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper, which were published by the U.S. Military during World War II. These publications reported on the happenings of the war and focused on members of the armed forces overseas.
Dates:
1944 August - 1945 May
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Dukes Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-328
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials pertaining to the lives, education, and military services of several members of the Dukes family, including Judson L. Dukes (1922-2004), Mary Smith Dukes (1926-1990), Dr. Judson L. Dukes, Jr. (1945-2010), and Bennie E. Dukes (1948-2001). Types of materials include correspondence, scrapbooks, photo albums, autograph books, military records, educational records, programs, certificates, photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, artwork, plaques and other types...
Dates:
1922-2012
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Duplin County, North Carolina Marriage Bonds
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-027
Scope and Contents
This item is a photocopy of a listing of Duplin County, North Carolina marriage bonds that extends from the county's earliest recorded marriage bonds in 1730 to circa 1870. The original listing is in the office of the Register of Deeds for Duplin County, at Kenansville, North Carolina. The listing is alphabetical by grooms' last names and is followed by an index of brides' names. The listing includes the names of the groom, bride, bondsman and witness, the date of bond, and, occasionally,...
Dates:
1730 - circa 1870 (photocopies)
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Earl Sheridan Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-MS-393
Scope and Contents
Papers of former Wilmington mayor and UNCW political science professor, Earl Sheridan. Contains newspaper clippings from his Star-News editorials--loose and bound, copies of the Wilmington budget and proposed budgets from 2013-2017, some campaign material including an oversize banner, and a small amount of other documents related to his life and work.
Dates:
1982-2017
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Edmund McCaffray Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-166
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and documents by and about Civil War General Robert E. Lee, his wife Mary Custis Lee, his nephew Fitzhugh Lee, and additional Civil War contemporaries. Content varies from updates on medical care to military requests for promotions and reimbursements. It spans from the height of the war in 1863 to post-Reconstruction in 1885, and largely originates to and from Virginia, of where Robert E. Lee was in command. A selection of the letters focuses on his...
Dates:
1863-1885
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Edwin Booth Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-115
Scope and Contents
This collection includes extensive biographical data on the actor, producer, and teacher, Edwin Booth. He was renowned in Europe, and the U.S.--with his brothers Junius and John Wilkes--for his interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies. Edwin Booth's career spanned from the years 1849, to his last performance as Hamlet at the Academy of Music in 1891, in Brooklyn N.Y.
This collection contains various scrapbooks, theatre collections, stage plans, and settings for all plays performed at...
Dates:
Other: 1800s
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Edwin E. Kirton Family Private Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-042
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, church programs and scrapbooks, as well as a large collection of sheet music that belonged to Mrs. Kirton. The scrapbooks in this collection highlight Father Kirton's career and other family events and the social column written by Mrs. Kirton for the Afro American newspaper.
Dates:
1927-1986
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Elizabeth Catharine DeRosset Land Deed
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-126
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the Deeds of Lease and Release for 960 acres of land originally sold by John Watts to Edward Bridgen and later by Edward Bridgen to his sister, Elizabeth Catharine DeRosset. The land was located near near New Topsail sound and Barren inlet, bordering land owned by Job Howes.
Dates:
1769-1774
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Ellen Douglas Bellamy Journal
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-067
Scope and Contents
This collection consists entirely of photocopies of pages from a journal or school exercise book kept by Miss Ellen Douglas Bellamy during the Civil War. Some time later, possibly in the 1870s, the journal was used as a scrapbook and printed clippings were pasted over the handwritten text. The collection includes copies of pages both before and after clippings were stripped away.The later clippings are primarily selections from popular magazines and are characteristic of...
Dates:
1861-1863 (photocopies)
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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