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- Harriss House
- Queen Anne style house built for Andrew Howell Harriss (1872-1956), physician and surgeon; and wife, Mary Bolles (1875-1967), native of Southport, NC. Dr. Harriss served in the Spanish American and First World Wars. Two-story porch added in...
- Port City Architecture
- Love-Morrison House
- Italianate style house built for John D. Love (1818-1877), merchant. Purchased in 1874 by Major Thomas Hall McKoy (1837-1902), Confederate officer, cotton buyer; and wife, Margaret Young Anderson (1847-1917). Purchased in 1926 by Benjamin R....
- Port City Architecture
- Salvation Army Building
- The Wilmington chapter of the Salvation Army was organized in 1887. After operating in various locations, this Mediterranean style building was the first to be constructed for the organization at a cost of $30,000. The cornerstone was laid April...
- Port City Architecture
- Auditorium, the Hammocks (Harbor Island)
- Wrightville Beach, N.C., Tide Water Power Company, Tide Water
- Tide Water Power and Light Company built this large red-shingled auditorium in 1916. Since Baptists throughout the state used it for their programs, it was also known as the Baptist Seaside Assembly Building. During World War I, it was used by...
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Fort Fisher Ocean Pier
- Fort Fisher, Orrell Brothers, ocean piers
- Fort Fisher Ocean Pier-built in early 1930s by the Orrell Brothers
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Oleander Suburb, 1930s
- Oleander, Suburbs, Live Oak Parkway
- 1315 and 1323 Live Oak Parkway.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Oakdale Cemetery - Hebrew Cemetery - Grave of Arthur Bluethenthal.
- Oakdale Cemetery, Hebrew Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves
- The Hebrew Cemetery at Oakdale is enclosed with an iron gate and fence and was opened on March 6, 1855. Prior to this time, Wilmington's Jewish community had to be buried in Charleston if they wanted to be buried in consecrated ground. At center,...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach.
- Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Bathing Suits
- Ladies in vintage ca. 1930s bathing suits, are standing in the surf. The suits were probably made of wool. When wet, they had the peculiar odor of wet wool and were very itchy. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811)...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Oleander Subdivision - 1930s.
- Oleander, Live Oak Parkway
- 1323 Live Oak Parkway
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach.
- Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Swimsuit Contest
- Contestants in a bathing beauty contest pose on the beach. Note the beach fashions of the early 1930s.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach - Banks Channel.
- Wrightsville Beach, Banks Channel, Oceanic, Hotels, Frying Pan Boat Club
- Boats tied up at the Frying Pan Boat Club dock on Banks Channel, north of the bridge. The Oceanic Hotel is in the background. The hotel's pavilion is at right, where boats were kept to carry guests out into the ocean via Moore's Inlet, which was...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Surf bathers at an unidentified beach.
- Beaches, Surf Bathing
- Note men's bathing suits with tank tops which were fashionable until the middle 1930s.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Rural paved road from Wilmington to Wrightsville Sound and Beach.
- Roads, Wrightsville Beach, Wrightsville Sound, Shell Road
- Note white-washed trees, which were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The privately built Shell Road or Wilmington Turnpike was constructed in 1874-1875 from Wilmington to the sounds and immediate coastal areas. The road began at Sixteenth and Dock...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Greenfield Lake.
- Greenfield Lake, Community Drive
- Building the road around Greenfield Lake in the 1930s. During the Depression, construction workers built the five mile drive around the lake. It was completed in July, 1931, as part of a Works Project Administration(W.P.A.) attempt to put a...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Depression - 1930s.
- Great Depression, Rehder
- Notation on back of photo: "Two 'unemployables' working in their garden in a portion of an infrequently used and unpaved street. The little girl is their grandchild. The man in the Panama hat standing on the curbstone is Carl Rehder."
- Louis T. Moore Collection

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