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    • 4th and Market Streets, 1911

    • 4th and Market Streets, 1911

    • monuments, brownstones, churches, synogogues, Claude Howell, libraries

    • Intersection of Fourth and Market Streets looking East down Market St. In the center of Street is the Cornelius Harnett obelisk, the Temple of Israel (at right) is the oldest Jewish house of worship in N.C. At the end of the block (5th & Market)...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Aerial View of Kure Beach

    • Aerial View of Kure Beach

    • North Carolina, New Hanover County, highway 421, Atlantic, industry

    • This is the ocean intake for the Ethyl Dow Chemical Co. which closed in 1945. The plant took bromine out of the seawater to use in making anti-knock gasoline. Years later the LaQue Center set up their corrosion testing operation at this location...
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    • Arab Shrine Club Fish Fry

    • Arab Shrine Club Fish Fry

    • fraternal organizations, children's burn center, charities

    • Shriner's fish fry, 4 men in line to get take -out boxes, all in work clothes with 3 wearing hardhats, first man in line has 5 to-go boxes, 2 Shriner's wearing fezzes, one looking toward camera and one leaning on counter with his back to camera, on...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Atlantic Coast Line train wreck

    • Atlantic Coast Line train wreck

    • passenger cars, derailment, antique

    • Photograph is a view of an ACL train wreck showing a passenger car with wreckage on top and a disabled locomotive. Foreground shows show old cars and trucks including a pumper fire truck and an American Red Cross van (Regional Blood Center,...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Bath, NC - Marker.

    • Bath, NC - Marker.

    • Bath, Beaufort County

    • Located in Beaufort County, Bath is North Carolina’s oldest incorporated town (1705). Braxton-Burbage House is on left. At center is Bath High School, with the 1751 Palmer-Marsh House on the right.
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Billboards on Oleander

    • Billboards on Oleander

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, automobiles, cars, D. West jewelers, Dan's fan city, Shell Island oceanfront, Naegele, Rip-Lin book exchange, Captain D's seafood & hamburger, Putt-Putt, miniature golf courses, Cape Fear motors,...

    • Shows existing billboards, businesses and traffic at the corner of Oleander Dr. and 41st st.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Bomb Shell on Third Street

    • Bomb Shell on Third Street

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, 3rd, explosives

    • Sgt. Daniel Howard of the Marine Corps Reserve Center carries an empty bomb shell to his van. The shell was spotted on Third Street in Wilmington. Police blocked a couple of blocks of Third Street until the bomb was removed. Captain Phil...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Cape Fear Institute Masonry Class

    • Cape Fear Institute Masonry Class

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, community colleges, CFCC, trade schools, Front Street

    • Henry Sloan, wearing lab coat and ball cap (in center) instructs some of the students in his advanced masonry class at CFTI. Students are laying various cinder block and brick walls. One female student builds a wall on the right side of the room.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Cape Fear River - Eagles Island.

    • Cape Fear River - Eagles Island.

    • Cape Fear River, Eagles Island

    • A freighter passes Eagles Island. Eagles Island is located on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, directly opposite downtown Wilmington. The seven mile long island was named for Richard Eagles, a native of Bristol, England, who was granted a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Cape Fear River.

    • Cape Fear River.

    • Cape Fear River, Eagles Island, Point Peter, Steamer

    • A steamer is in the river in front of Eagles Island. Point Peter is in the background. The Native Americans called the river, "Sapona," which is formed by the junction of the Haw and Deep Rivers in Chatham County, NC, and flows southeasterly...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Carolina Beach - Street scene.

    • Carolina Beach - Street scene.

    • Hotel Royal Palm, Fountain's Rooms and Apartments, Carolina Beach

    • Hotel Royal Palm is in the center. Next door to right, is Fountain's Rooms and Apartments. Carolina Beach is located on the Federal Point peninsula, bounded on the west by the Cape Fear River, and on the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean. An...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Children in Class at Recreation Center

    • Children in Class at Recreation Center

    • Bible school, African American, Christian activities, New Hanover County, North Carolina, boys and girls, drawing, ping pong table, bumper pool

    • Evangelist, Amy James, leads a group of children in drawing lessons during Bible study in the afternoon at the Vesta Village recreation center in Wilmington. She leads weekly Bible studies for about 20 children in the complex just off the 1800...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • City Hall - Thalian Hall

    • City Hall - Thalian Hall
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    • Italianate and Classical Revival style city hall and theater built for the citizens of Wilmington, the largest town in North Carolina at the time. One of the nations few surviving antebellum buildings constructed to serve as both governmental and...
    • Port City Architecture

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