Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion, Movie Screen
View from the upper story of the famous pavilion, looking east at bathers in the ocean. Note movie screen at extreme left.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and...
A panoramic view of the beach taken from Harbor Island across Banks Channel. The Seashore Hotel is the large building at left.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds...
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, N. Front Street, Nutt Street, Champion Compress, Point Peter
Since the mid-nineteenth century, Wilmington had been a railroad town, beginning with the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, which was organized in 1838, and reportedly was at one time, the longest railroad in the world. Some years later, that railroad...
Wilmington Jaycees, ceremonies, Miss Wilmington, welcome signs, Green Meadows
Jaycees chat with Miss Wilmington Jeanne Hardin after she cut the ribbon at the new welcome sign near Green Meadows. Burt Flowers, Cliff Reaves (second from left).
New Hanover County, North Carolina, Beauty contests, pageants, clubs, organizations, officers
Sandy Cyphers, Bladen County native and president of the Wilmington Jaycee women and later 1st woman president of the Wilmington Jaycees, in a backstage dressing room sprays hair spray on contestant Jamie Cyndra McGee, as she gets ready for the...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, buyers, sellers, bidders, bicycles, stolen items, law enforcement
Wilmington police department's Lieutenant C.M. James, wearing police overalls and a police ball cap, tags a small light-colored girls bike.Volunteer Vincent Wilson holds it steady as the bike goes on the auction block at the Wilmington Police...
This divided back postcard features a colored photograph capturing the electric railroad bridge which crosses the sound between Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, N.C.
This divided back postcard features a colored photograph capturing the electric railroad bridge which crosses the sound between Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, N.C.
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.
Front page of the local newspaper, "The Wilmington Morning Star", late teens-early twenties-(n.d.) The newspaper is now titled "The Wilmington
Star-News."
Moore family, Gallagher family, physicians, Medicine, Wilmington, North Carolina Azalea Festival, Wilmington Housing Authority
Dr. William Houston Moore (1880-1948), was born in Duplin County, North Carolina. He married Miss Ida Galla(g?)her of Danville, Pa in 1911. He attended the University of North Carolina and received his M.D. from Jefferson College (1910). He was a...
Steamer Wilmington, steamer, riverboat, Cape Fear River, Capt. John Harper
This image, most likely taken from a postcard, captures the Steamer Wilmington built 1881. Capt. John Harper, Pride of Wilmington Excursions Sunday School, every summer.
1875, Wilmington Compress and Warehouse Co., 1912, Champion Compress and Warehouse Co. (Taken from "Wilmington: The Metropolis and Port of North Carolina, Its Advantages and Interests, 1912, by the Chamber of Commerce.)
Walker family, Architects, builders, philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraits
Portrait of James Walker now hanging on wall at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason,...