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U.S. Military Ships, Bases, and Operations Photographs and Plans
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-071
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs and plans that span thirty-one years of U.S. military history at sea. Of note in the collection are twenty-one photos of Japanese bombing and aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
Dates:
1932-1963
Found in:
Special Collections
USO Club, Jacksonville NC Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-195
Scope and Contents
This collection specifically deals with nearly sixty years of operations with the United Service Organization (USO) in Jacksonville, NC, including information on the post-WWII era segregated USO. Materials on national and international USO operations from the WWII era to the 1980s are also among the collection.Material consists of numerous photographs, publications, newspapers, operations and budget reports, council meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, event press,...
Dates:
1913-2011
Found in:
Special Collections
Vernon Keeter Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-203
Abstract
This collection contains a variety of Columbus County court records and legal documents from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
Dates:
1784-1914
Found in:
Special Collections
Virginia Harriss Holland World War II Memorabilia
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-312
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal correspondence and ration paperwork from Lt. Commander David S. Harriss's service in the United States Navy from 1942-1945. The rations are for non-highway gasoline and include two gasoline ration coupons, a mileage rationing record, and a basic mileage ration coupon book. This collection also includes an Alcoholic Beverage Control Sales Permit made out to Elizabeth H. Harriss and a letter regarding a "change of duty" to David Harriss from the Bureau of...
Dates:
1942-1945
Found in:
Special Collections
Virginia Wright-Frierson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-144
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection follows the birth of an idea for books on flora and fauna, the living desert, rainforest, and waters around an island, from first thoughts and art doodles, to finished product. Most of these notes focus on A North American Rain Forest Scrapbook, which can be found in its complete form in the library's general collection. The remainder of the collection includes newspaper clippings, correspondence with publishers, and biographical information about...
Dates:
1984-2015
Found in:
Special Collections
Vivian Rogers Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-MS-403
Scope and Contents
These papers contain research and materials related to Vivan Rogers's project: Women Rebuilding After Late Divorce. Rogers was a visiting scholar at UNCW. It also includes speaker and discussion tapes from the 1978 and 1982 national conferences on the Adult Life Cycle: From Theory to Practice.
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Found in:
Special Collections
W. D. Sr. and Viola M. Jones Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-207
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers of Wilbur D. Jones, Sr., (1892-1967), a Wilmington banker and World War I veteran, and his wife, Viola Murrell Jones (1903-1973). Materials include newspapers, biographical materials, World War I-era correspondence and memorabilia, reports cards, photographs, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper clippings, printed webpages, and realia, including two purses that belonged to Viola M. Jones. Major subjects include World War I and the Independent Order of...
Dates:
1894-2002, bulk 1908-1973
Found in:
Special Collections
Wallace C. Murchison Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-106
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Wallace C. Murchison (1919-2013). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, grant applications, publications, publicity materials, financial documents, maps, blueprints, brochures, notes, printed materials, and a photograph. Major subjects include the North Carolina Fund, the Wilmington-New Hanover County Good Neighbor Council, the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, and Democratic political campaigns,...
Dates:
1948-1974
Found in:
Special Collections
Wayne Jackson Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-104
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials pertaining to the career of Wayne Jackson, a broadcaster for southeastern North Carolina NBC television affiliate WECT (formerly WMFD). In particular, this collection documents three important events in Wilmington College history including the first televised basketball game in the region (that of the Virgina-Carolina Athletic Conference Junior College Basketball Tournament championship game), a dinner held for the Seahawks baseball team following their...
Dates:
1954-1974, 1988
Found in:
Special Collections
Weather Bureau Station Wilmington, North Carolina Official Documents
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-015
Scope and Contents
These papers consist largely of communications between the central U.S. Weather Bureau office in Washington, D.C., and the local weather observation post at Wilmington, N.C. Although the inclusive dates of this group are 1871-1912, all but one of the items fall in the years 1871-1908, with no items from the years 1883-84, 1893-94, 1899, 1905-06, and 1909-11. These papers consist of seven topical series; items within each series are arranged in chronological order. Series 1,...
Dates:
1871 - 1912
Found in:
Special Collections