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.
Grave of Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813-1864), a Confederate spy, who was drowned while attempting to get into a life-boat of the Blockade Runner, Condor, in the ocean off Fort Fisher. Inscription on the stone: "Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, a bearer of...
Inscription on back: "Snakes, elephants, devils are on monument on left."
Oakdale Cemetery was chartered in 1852, when sixty-five acres were initially acquired. The cemetery was organized in response to a nationwide movement towards large...
Oakdale Cemetery was chartered in 1852, when sixty-five acres were initially acquired. The cemetery was organized in response to a nationwide movement towards large centrally located places of interment, which replaced church and private graveyards...
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,...
View of the north side of the 300 block of Princess Street, with the entrance to Thalian Hall at left. Note house on the corner of the 100 block of north Fourth Street, which was owned by Sarah Bowden. The pavement of Princess Street is made of...
Thalian Hall, City Hall, Princess Street, N. Third Street
Clothing collected for the poor during the Depression years. Entrance of Thalian Hall and steps. Wilmington's impressive City Hall and attendant theater, Thalian Hall, was authorized by the Wilmington Board of Alderman in 1854. John Trimble, a New...
Thalian Hall, City Hall, Princess Street, N. Third Street
During the Depression years, clothing was collected for the poor. Thalian Hall entrance and steps. Wilmington's impressive City Hall and attendant theater, Thalian Hall, was authorized by the Wilmington Board of Alderman in 1854. John Trimble, a...
The monument was erected by the Christian Association of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. A native of Hamburg, Germany, Ellerbrook (1856-1880) was a member of the Howard Relief Volunteer Fire Department. On April 11, 1880, he lost his life...
According to the 1860 Wilmington City Directory, Shaddrack M. West (ca. 1810-1871) was living in the house on North Third Street, between Princess and Chestnut streets. The large three-story Italinate dwelling was built ca. 1858. On July 10, 1914,...