Page 3 of letter from Henry "Harry" Hungerford Smith to mother Elizabeth Ann Noble Smith, detailing how their troop anticipates receiving new orders soon. Smith asks for them to send more clothes to him. He also notes that there has been an...
Page 4 of letter from Henry "Harry" Hungerford Smith to mother Elizabeth Ann Noble Smith, detailing how their troop anticipates receiving new orders soon. This page features a small note written in pencil that he had been sick, but was feeling...
Launching of the S.S. Reuben Tipton on April 20, 1945. It was the 211th ship completed by the NC Shipbuilding Company. Pictured left to right are Joseph E. Lykes, president of Lykes Bros.; Miss Mathilde Conway Farrell, neice of Mrs. Tipton; Miss...
Mrs. Maguire, aunt of sponsor; P.F. Halsey; Mrs. Walker Jones of New York, mother of sponsor; Mr. Jones, father of sponsor; Betty Ann Jones, sister of sponsor; Miss Gladys M. Jones, sponsor; and W.S. McMahon all pose for a picture before the...
Miss Dorothy Sutherland, sponsor, christens the SS John P. Mitchell on May 23, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company located in Wilmington, NC. She was a representative of New Hanover High School.
Launching party of the SS John P. Mitchell. Miss Dorothy Sutherland was the sponsor and resentative of New Hanover High School. The ship was christened on May 23, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company located in Wilmington, NC.
Miss Charlene Register, sponsor of the S.S. Game Cock, prepares to christen the vessel on May 26, 1944. Also included in the photo are representatives of New Hanover High School. Also pictured are Barbara Marshall (second from left); Betty Evans...
Front of a postcard from Daisy Lovering to her neices Helen and Susan Lovering. The postcard features an illustration of actress Deanna Durbin's Hollywood home. The reverse side gives Daisy's new address. Daisy (1869-1950) was an actress who...
Back of a postcard from Daisy Lovering to her neices Helen and Sue Lovering listing her new address. The front features an illustration of Deanna Durbin's home in Hollywood, CA.
Studio portrait of Helen Lovering from January 28, 1917. After the family settled in Wilmington from New York in 1922, Helen lived in the Meares family home on Market Street until her death in 1999. She retired from Lovering Office Service and...
A studio portrait of Helen Lovering, with the description that she was 1 year, 3 days old at the time of the photograph. Although born in Hawthorne, New Jersey, Lovering had strong family ties to Wilmington, North Carolina and lived there for most...
Sisters Susan and Helen Lovering stand on the beach. Their father Theodore P. Lovering and mother Susan Kidder Meares , daughter of Wilmington resident Walker Meares, moved the family from New York to Wilmington in 1922. They eventually settled...