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Gayle Tustin Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-221
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers and media related to the career of local Wilmington artist Gayle Tustin. The collection includes sketchbooks, preliminary plans, interviews, magazine articles, applications, records, artists' biography, consignment forms, material lists, photographs, postcards, and brochures that map Tustin's artistic career from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The collection ranges in terms of the size and scope of projects, including local commissions and plans for...
Dates:
1981-2006
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Gene Merritt Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
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
George Bernard Shaw Private Paper
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-014
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one postcard with a printed mini-essay on the value of a forty letter “alfabet” by Bernard Shaw; the address Ayot Saint Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, is also printed at the end of the card. Added to this are further, handwritten arguments supporting the need for an expanded alphabet, which are dated December 26, 1947, and initialed “G.B.S.” The card is addressed to “William Russell M.S. Athens (Georgia) U.S. America.” The card bears an English stamp and is...
Dates:
1947
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
George Fokakis Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-304
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters and WWII memorabilia from George Fokakis' military service and items of personal importance, including reunion books, badges, and maps. The dates of the letters span from 1943 to 1951, during WWII and the Korean War. The letters contain correspondence mainly between George and his family during his time of service in WWII. George wrote often to his siblings: sisters Katherine and Clara, and his brother Nick. George's conversations with his sisters would...
Dates:
1943-2001, Undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
George Franklin Kiker Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-295
Scope and Contents
The Kiker collection contains photographs of Private First Class George Franklin Kiker, telegrams sent to his family notifying them of his injury, a copy of his honorable discharge, his Purple Heart, and other medals he was awarded. Several paper items were preserved from a scrapbook, some are attached on both sides of the pages. These items include Bill Mauldin editorial cartoons, newspaper clippings, Christmas Cards, and V-Mail.
Dates:
1933-1946
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
George Walton Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-147
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, manuscript material, photographs, interviews and questionnaires relating to the research and publication of George Walton's Devils Brigade, Faint The Trumpet Sounds, The Wasted Generation and Rome Fell Today.
Dates:
1959-1969, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Gilbert H. Burnett Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-MS-402
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers, memorabilia, A/V, photo albums/scrapbooks, certificates and diplomas, and photographs of retired North Carolina 5th Judicial District Judge Gilbert H. Burnett.
Dates:
1925-2017
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Gillespie Family Genealogical Record
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-025
Scope and Contents
This family genealogy begins with David Gillespie, Sr., and his wife, Miss Borthick. Their son, David Jr., had three sons, James, Archibald and Borthick, who emigrated to New Bern, North Carolina. Borthick returned to Ireland while Archibald and James remained. James purchased land near Kenansville and named his home Golden Grove. This record lists James’ descendants, sometimes as far as the ninth generation-James being the third. This record is 41 pages long and is a photocopy; the original...
Dates:
1977, Undated (photocopies)
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Gordon-Smith Letter
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-099
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter dated March 6, 1921 and written by Gordon Gordon-Smith to Mr. M. MacRae of Wilmington thanking MacRae for his letter of February 28th, 1921 regarding his interest in the Serbian people. Gordon-Smith wrote a book on the Serbian Campaign.
Dates:
1921 March 6
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
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