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William J. Hoke Captain's Commission
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-012
Abstract
This collection contains a commission for William J. Hoke as a Captain of the Southern Guards, a Rifle Company attached to the Seventieth Regiment, North Carolina Militia, on December 11, 1850. His commission was signed by North Carolina Governor Charles Manly and his private secretary, Andrew J. Terrill.
Dates:
1850
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Willis and Amanda Wilson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-226
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the family papers of Willis Wilson (1807-1860) and Amanda Pollock Wilson (1813-1888), white landowners, farmers, and enslavers in Duplin County, North Carolina. Types of materials include correspondence, estate records, deeds and indentures, financial account summaries, receipts from merchants in Warsaw and Clinton, newspaper subscription receipts, Wilmington inspectors’ certificates for turpentine, and tax receipts. In the estate and financial documents there is...
Dates:
1762-1905, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington and New Hanover County Naval Affairs Committee Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-MS-399
Content Description
This collection contains material related to the Wilmington/New Hanover County Naval Affairs Committee from the late 80s-early 2000s. It includes newspaper clippings, slides, correspondence, and meeting material, mostly about the various naval ships that visited Wilmington.
Dates:
1980s-2000s
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Art Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-198
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the records of the Wilmington Art Association, which was founded in 1971 and is the second organization to use this name. Included are articles of incorporation, by-laws, mailing lists, and newsletters. The collection also contains three scrapbooks, which document the artists and events associated with the organization over the course of thirty years. The scrapbooks include ephemera, flyers, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and artist spotlights. The...
Dates:
1971-1999
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Bird Club
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-321
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documentation of the Wilmington Science Club, founded in 1946 by Edna Appleberry as the Wilmington Bird Club. Included are Appleberry's handwritten field notes from 1947 to 1960 for birds in Wilmington, North Carolina; Appleberry's personal field notebook used from 1956-1959; typed migration, nesting, and field notes spanning from 1947 to 1960; spring bird censuses taken from 1953 to 1959 of bird counts in Wilmington, North Carolina; and correspondence between...
Dates:
1947-1972, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Civitan Club Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-227
Scope and Contents
The Wilmington Civitan Club Records span from the club’s charter in 1938 to 2006. Materials include items such as the club constitution and bylaws, membership lists, newsletters, directories, meeting minutes, typescripts, and brochures on Civitan International and the history of the Wilmington Civitan Club. The collection also contains scholarship material from the club’s annual fruitcake sale and its relationship with the Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina, along with newspaper clippings...
Dates:
1938-2006
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Council of the Navy League Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-238
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 34 photographs that represent an active period of civilian involvement with the Wilmington Council of the Navy League in southeastern North Carolina primarily from the 1950's to the 1960's. The images represent interactions of League members including Gene Edwards, Bobby Tate, and Mayor O.O. Allsbrook, with local military installations and service men. Additional images depict trips taken on behalf of the Wilmington chapter of the Navy League to Washington D.C. and...
Dates:
1940s-1960s, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-397
Scope and Contents
The Wilmington Heritage Cemeteries Preservation Planning Records document the efforts of UNC Wilmington public history professor, Dr. Virginia Stewart, in seeking grant funding from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Services Fund to carry out a preservation assessment of Wilmington’s historic Oakdale and Pine Forest Cemeteries. Upon receiving the award, Stewart coordinated on-site consultations of these cemeteries by preservation professionals Lynette Strangstad and...
Dates:
1993-2002; Majority of material found within 2000-2002
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington Movement 1971
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-108
Scope and Contents
This collection contains sixteen original articles from the Wilmington Morning Star and its joint Sunday edition with the Wilmington News, the Star-News (all now merged into the Wilmington Star-News), and two from Raleigh's The News and Observer, chronicling the events leading to and during the racial unrest centering around the...
Dates:
1971 February 03 - October 03
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections
Wilmington, NC and the Lower Cape Fear Area During the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-026
Scope and Contents
Excerpts of letters, diaries, papers, and published materials comprise the body of this research collection, which relate specifically to Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear (LCF) during the Civil War. Subjects include troop movements, civilian life, shipping, prisoners of war, and military engagements. Wilmington was the last Confederate port to be captured; blockading and blockade runners and the defense and capture of Fort Fisher are especially well represented. Items of local...
Dates:
1855, 1861-1865, undated
Found in:
Randall Library Special Collections