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Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-320
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the biographical documents, familiy histories, diaries, works of poetry, genealogical lists, and photographs of the Ashe family of North Carolina. Most of the materials in this collection consist of photocopies or typed transcripts, but it does contain original diaries, letters, and photographs.The original diaries were written by Henrietta Perkins and Sarah Anne Ashe during the late 1840s and early 1850s. Sarah's diary focused on the tragedies of...
Dates:
1672-2003, undated; Majority of material found within 1852-1887
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-336
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of the Atkinson and Murchison families of Wilmington, North Carolina. A significant portion pertains to Reverend Thomas Atkinson and his son-in-law Reverend David Hillhouse Buel, both North Carolina leaders in the Episcopal church. Additional content relates to various members of the Atkinson and Murchison families, particularly Rev. Atkinson's son--Colonel John Wilder Atkinson, John Wilder's daughter--Loulie Atkinson Murchison, her husband Joel Williams...
Dates:
1816-1968
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-052
Scope and Contents
This collection of three articles chronicles Austin Joseph Holliday’s attempts to receive service-connected total and permanent disability from the Veterans’ Administration for an illness that occurred during World War I. The plaintiff Holliday, a black WWI veteran, based his prayer for compensation under U.S. Judicial Code, Section 145, March 3, 1887, c—359, 1, 24 Stat. 505 and the World War Veterans Act 1924 in pursuant to Part I of Veterans Regulations Number I, as amended in the Economy...
Dates:
1949-1950
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-153
Scope and Contents
This collection contains twenty scrapbook albums documenting the life and career of Benjamin David (B.D.) Schwartz, his wife Sylvia, and their family beginning in 1918 and ending in 1993. Schwartz, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, moved to Wilmington as young child. He attended local schools, worked at his father’s furniture business, and assisted his family in establishing the B’nai Israel Synagogue. After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill, he returned to the port city and continued working...
Dates:
1918-1993
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-164
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal papers of professor and pastor Dr. Benjamin Franklin "B. Frank" Hall. Content spans 1850-1984 and includes personal and business correspondence, financial documents, sermons, social essays, poetry, newspaper clippings, and advising material from Wilmington College and later UNCW, where Hall taught in the Philosophy and Religion department. Hall's writings focused on religion, human decency, and ethics, of which he shared at the pulpit and in his...
Dates:
1850-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1920-1980
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-134
Scope and Contents
In September 1976, Sondra Claudine Langtry had the opportunity to travel for a month in the former Soviet Union, visiting with her father's Russian relatives. This collection contains postcards, travel observations, and personal ephemera from her visit there, as well as to other international destinations, such as Egypt and Finland. Also included is Langtry's thesis on Soviet views of the Middle East.
Dates:
1962-1979
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-127
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of the Barden family, who were planters in Sampson and Duplin Counties during the 19th century. Contained within are mercantile records, receipts for the purchase of enslaved persons, land indentures, correspondence, photographs and other documents that illustrate the economic activities of the family. All items are photocopies of originals authorized by the donor of the materials.
Dates:
1790-1922 (photocopies/reprints)
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-239
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-413
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two bibles from members of the Bellamy family and family archival materials, including photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. Dated early-mid 1900s. Some photographs may be slightly older.
Dates:
circa early 1900s-mid 1900s
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-MS-406
Scope and Contents
This collection contains historical records from the 1800s--such as letters, bank receipts and deposits, advertisements, property indentures, architectural plans, and other documents--of the Bellamy family related to their life and home in the Bellamy Mansion on Market Street in Historic Downtown Wilmington. Modern research and information is also included, mainly as photocopies or printouts.
Dates:
1800s
