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- Feast of Pirates Battle Scene 1929, Pirates Attack on City 1929
- Cape Fear River, Feast of Pirates, Boats, Pirates, Waterfront
- This divided back postcard features an illustration which depicts a mock battle between ships taking place on the Cape Fear River during the annual Feast of Pirates in 1929.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- Feast of Pirates Battle Scene 1929
- Cape Fear River, Feast of Pirates, Boats, Pirates
- This b&w photograph captures a mock battle between ships taking place on the Cape Fear River during the annual Feast of Pirates in 1929.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- Wrightsville Beach, Sound View, Storm, 1929.
- beaches, Wrightsville Beach, rainstorms
- Wrightsville Beach, sound view, storm, 1929
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Wrightsville Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, 1929
- beaches, fishing wharfs, piers, Wrightsville Beach
- Wrightsville Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, 1929
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Banks Channel, Just North of Trestle, 1929
- Banks Channel, Wrightsville Beach
- Banks Channel, just North of trestle, 1929
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Another Street at Wrightsville Beach, After a Storm, 1929
- flooding, Wrightsville Beach, storms
- Another street at Wrightsville Beach, after a storm, 1929
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Construction, Northeast River Bridge, 1929
- bridges, construction, Cape Fear River
- Construction of the Northeast River Bridge, 1929
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Northeast Cape Fear River Bridge, soon after completion in 1929.
- Northeast Cape Fear River Bridge, Bridges
- On December 10, 1929, the twin bridges over the Northeast and Northwest Cape Fear River were opened to traffic. They replaced ferries, which had been the only mode of transportation across the river since colonial times. On October 18, 1978, the...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge, south end.
- Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge, Bridges, Automobiles
- Automobiles cross newly completed bridge in 1929. On December 10, 1929, the twin bridges over the Northeast and Northwest Cape Fear River were opened to traffic. They replaced ferries, which had been the only mode of transportation across the...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge.
- Northwest Cape Fear River Bridge, Bridges
- Looking southwest shortly after its completion in 1929. On December 10, 1929, the twin bridges over the Northeast and Northwest Cape Fear River were opened to traffic. They replaced ferries, which had been the only mode of transportation across...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Antique cars
- old, automobiles, cars
- Carl Stanley (left) stands beside his 1929 Mercedes. Theodore Baldwin (right) stands by his 1937 Jaguar automobile.
- Star-News Image Archive
- Working on the Railroad
- State Port off Burnett Blvd.
- Lewis Davis and William Simms beat out a rhythmic sound as they drive spikes into a new section of track at the state port. Watching is supervisor Guy Williams. The workers were setting the "frog," a 4000 lbs piece of the switching mechanism that...
- Star-News Image Archive
- Humphreys-Cooper House
- Shingled cottage built for Charles Raymond Humphreys (1881-1929), civil engineer; and wife, Lilian Miller Kenly (1890-1979), natives of Maryland. Purchased in 1929 by Oscar Fleet Cooper (1878-1948), advertising agent for Atlantic Coast Line...
- Port City Architecture
- Peterson & Rulfs Building
- Neoclassical Revival style building constructed for Peterson & Rulfs Shoe Company. Williama Canover Peterson (1861-1940), native of Duplin County, and John Frederick Rulfs, Jr. (1869-1953), retired from their shoe business in 1929. Building...
- Port City Architecture
- Skinner House, Captain
- Queen Anne style house built for Emily J. Erambert Skinner (1835-1897), wife of Samuel Wallace Skinner (1837-1907), ship builder and partner in Evans & Skinner Marine Railway. Purchased in 1929 by Harriss Bellamy Stone (1901-1956), owner of Marine...
- Port City Architecture
- John William King House
- BUilt for John William King (1851-1923), upholster; and wife, Carrie V. Williams (1852-1935). Remained in the family for twenty-four years. In 1929, purchased by Frfank P. Newkirk (1895-1975), elevator operator at the US Custom House; and wife,...
- Port City Architecture
- Sternberger-Small House
- Craftsman style bungalow built by Solomon Sternberger (1870-1945), dry goods merchant, for son, Julius Earl "Jinx" Sternberger (1897-1966), World War I veteran, realtor, director of Carolina Savings & Loan; and wife, Sadibel Simon (1904-1983),...
- Port City Architecture
- Ofiesh-Compos Building
- Commercial building constructed for George Ofiesh (1897-1929), native of Mouhaidee, Lebanon, dry goods merchant; and wife, Emily E. (1907-1997). Purchased in 1943 by Alex J. Compos (1908-1965), and wife, Polly Galanoudis (d. 1993), natives of...
- Port City Architecture
- Dr. Avant House & Office
- Colonial Revival style house and office built for Frank W. Avant (1876-1973), physician, native of Southport; and wife, Florence L. Nichols (1887-1962), native of Newark, NJ. He was a founder of Community Hospital, president of the New Hanover...
- Port City Architecture
- Alexander Sprunt House
- Regency Revival style house built for Alexander Sprunt (1890-1957), president, Alexander Sprunt and Son, cotton exporters, Wilmington Shipping and Wilmington Terminal Warehouse; and wife, Lula Clegg Frere (1891-1977), native of Franklin, LA,...
- Port City Architecture