Tudor Revival style house built for Harry Jaffe (1887-1962), native of Leeds, England; and wife, Dora Wolff (1897-1973), native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, proprietors of Castle Street Furniture Company. Mirror image cottage design attributed...
Tudor Revival style house built for Harry J. Stein (1900-1990), native of London, England, draftsman and engineer with Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife Minnie Jaffe (1910-2001), native of Newcastle, England, manager of Castle Street Furniture...
This divided back postcard features an image of a woman with wings surrounds by four scences from Wrightsville Beach. Among the scenes are Lumina Station, the Seashore Hotel, Hotel Tarrymore and Wrightsville Beach.
This divided back postcard features an illustration of the Lumina Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach. Similar to PCWB185, this image has the sign ""Lumina"" on top of the building.
This divided back postcard features two photographs capturing views from the beach of Wrightsville. One image shows a crowd of beachgoers and the other shows the sunset.
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Champion Compress, Sprunt, Cotton, Shipping, Boats
This b&w image features two photographs of ships anchored in front of the Champion Cotton Compress in 1875 and 1912 taken from The City of Wilmington, The Metropolis and Port of North Carolina, Its Advantages and Interests.
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Navassa Factory, Fertilizer, Boats
This b&w image, taken from Wilmington: The Metropolis and Port of North Carolina, captures vessels unloading fertilizer at the Navassa Factory on the north side of Wilmington.
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Custom House, Steamer Wilmington, Masonic Temple, Post Office
This b&w image captures the Wilmington waterfront from the west side of the Cape Fear River--showing the old Custom House, Steamer Wilmington, Masonic Building and old tower of brownstone Post Office. The photograph was taken about 1910.
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Point Peter, Champion Compress
View from Point Peter looking southeast, between Campbell and Dock streets. The Champion Compress (Cotton) wharves are at left in this image taken about 1935.
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Three-masted Sailing Vessel, Ferry, Boats, Eagles Island
This b&w photograph captures two three-masted sailing vessels anchored on the west of the Cape Fear River at Eagles Island. Also in the picture is a ferry transporting cargo. This image is taken from Scenes in North Carolina, Published in Twelve...
James Sprunt and Luola Murchison, married 27 November 1883 and bought the Dudley house in 1895. They added the Greek columned portico with Ionic capitals and made a few other changes to the 1825 structure. This image was produced around 1915.
Image shows crowded water slide and pier on the sound side of Lumina at Wrightsville Beach, N.C. The water slide was erected by the owners of Lumina. The relative still waters of the sound made it easier to swim there rather than in the surf of...