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Thomas Smith Land Grant
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-007
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of 1688 deed for Oyster Poynt in Charlestowne, Carolina. In the winter of 1688, Thomas Smith purchased a six acre plot of land in Charlestowne, Carolina known as Oyster Point. Smith's grant was an ornately decorated, well delineated description, containing three major areas of information: a sketch of the location showing bounding lots; a surveyor's report; and a formal statement from the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina.In the upper left corner of the...
Dates:
1688-1693
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Thomas Fanning Wood, Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-151
Scope and Contents
This collection contains business records, cancelled checks, notes and bills collected during Thomas Wood Jr's association with Alexander Sprunt & Son. Wood represented Alexander Sprunt & Son in New York and Europe, mainly the Netherlands and France. The overseas cablegrams relating to business matters are in code.
The collection also contains correspondence with the Sarah Leigh Clinic in Norfolk, VA. These letters concern Mrs. Wood and her battle with breast cancer. Also included...
Dates:
1907-1926
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Thursday Morning Music Club Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-036
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities Wilmington's Thursday Morning Music Club from its origin in 1892 to 2014, including the club's affiliation with the North Carolina and National Federations of Music Clubs. Represented in the records are minutes, bylaws, banking records, reports, correspondence, member directories, programs, and yearbooks. Of historical significance are the minutes of the club's first meetings documenting its founding members, meeting locations and songs practiced....
Dates:
1892-2014
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Tilden - Sigvaldsen Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-322
Abstract
The currency in this collection was a gift from Virginia Rivenbark Tiden, Jean Tilden Sigvaldsen and Gary S. Sigvaldsen in February 2009. Description of currency is from: Grover C. Criswell, Jr., Confederate and Southern State Currency : A Descriptive Listing, Including Rarity and Prices. 2nd rev. ed ed. Citra, Fla.: Criswell's & Criswell's Publications, 1976.
Krause, Chester L., Standard Catalog of United States Paper...
Dates:
1863-1875, 1958, 1968-1981
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Tobacco Card Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-064
Scope and Contents
Cigarette cards were a common form of advertising in the late 1800s. This collection contains thirty-four tobacco cards, two larger size color posters, and an envelope with a printed return address of "W.H. Lowdermilk & Co." located in Washington, DC. All items are undated.
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Tom Summers Sports Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-327
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides and game day programs mainly from SC colleges, universities and high schools that were collected by Tom Summers. A few items from professional sports are included. Also included in the collection are sports magazines and books, photos, newspapers articles, and other memorabilia, as well as Summers’ published newspaper columns and books, Hunkering Down: My Story in Four Decades of Clinical Pastoral Education and Want a Frog?...
Dates:
1944-2012
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Tony Rivenbark Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-MS-405
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of longtime Thalian Hall director Tony Rivenbark. Material includes his personal research and production work related to Thalian Hall, as well as material on historic American theatres. Original material mainly dates from the 1980s-2020. Some old photos and glamour shots of performers appear circa early 1900s-1930s.
Dates:
1900s-2020
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Twentieth Century European Military Maps
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-089
Scope and Contents
This collection contains military maps of Germany, La Rochelle, Grosser St. Bernhard, Grenoble, Berne, and Hallschlag from the first half of the 20th century.
Dates:
1910-1945
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
University of North Carolina System Collection
Collection
Identifier: UA-RG-01
Scope and Contents
This record group includes records pertaining to North Carolina's public universities, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and/or the University of North Carolina Wilmington as a constituent institution of the system. This record group does not provide a comprehensive administrative history of the University of North Carolina System. Rather, it consolidates materials from and about the multicampus University of North Carolina that had been collected by various UNC Wilmington...
Dates:
1969 - 1990
Found in:
University Archives
University of North Carolina Wilmington Academic Affairs Records
Record Group
Identifier: UA-RG-04
Scope and Contents
The University of North Carolina Wilmington Academic Affairs Records consists of administrative materials pertaining to curricula, institutional research, and supporting academic services at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and its predecessor Wilmington College. The collection demonstrates an evolving higher education mission, starting with the school's establishment as a locally funded two-year college through its transformation into a leading public research university. A...
Dates:
1947-2023
Found in:
University Archives