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- Men Wash Cars for Charity
- car washes, Wilmington, NC
- Robert Brewer sits high above Carolina Beach Road Saturday afternoon as he tries to attract attention to his softball team's car wash. The team, a local squad called "International Gardens," are in the background washing customers cars.
- Star-News Image Archive
- The Shackman (2)
- Columbus County, North Carolina, rural, poor, disadvantaged, kerosene, lantern
- Henry Williams, known to people in Bolton, as the Shackman, spent more than 3 years in this tiny little house which had no running running water, electricity, or air conditioning/heating. Mr. Williams recently moved into a new trailor that has the...
- Star-News Image Archive
- Rush-Steljes Building
- Greek Revival style store with residence above, built for Antonio Rush (1814-1896), grocer; and wife, Emiline Louisa Silva (1830-1906), both of Portuguese descent. Owned by German born Diedrich Steljes (1833-1902), grocer; and wife, Mary Frances...
- Port City Architecture
- Riverfest 1981-2
- Cape Fear River, USS North Carolina, Battleship, Balloon, 7-Up, Riverfest
- This b&w photograph captures a balloon hovering above the Battleship North Carolina during Riverfest 1981.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- Launching of the "Cape Fear"
- Cape Fear River, Concrete Ship, Cape Fear, Airplane, Shipbuilding, Boats
- This b&w photograph captures an airplane flying above the concrete ship, "Cape Fear," prior to its launching.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- Wilmington Waterfront
- Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Government Buildings, Ships,
- In the left foreground is the J.A. Springer Coal Company Building and equipment, the tower of the old Brownstone Post Office can be seen above the Southern Building. Many other downtown businesses can also be be seen. Several boats are docked along...
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Dr. Alonzo Dow Bryan-Obituary from Sneads Ferry
- Bryan family, physicians, Sneads Ferry
- "Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Sneads Ferry for Dr. Lorenzo Dow Bryan, above, who died Sunday night. He practiced medicine for 40 years in Sneads Ferry, Fulchers Landing, Holly Ridge, Marines, Gillette, Hampstead and Haw."
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Feast of Pirates Parade Float.
- Feast of Pirates, Parade, Float
- Margaret Getty, age 2, was the baby parade winner in the 1929 Feast of Pirates. The above float, with a Hawaiian motif was taken in front of the Getty’s home at 1909 Nun Street.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Wrightsville Beach.
- Banks Channel, Airplane, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches
- A small boat on Banks Channel and an early airplane above; also shows southern end of the beach. Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- New Hanover County Airport - Bluethenthal Field.
- Airport, Bluethenthal Field, Air Show, Planes
- Air show - eight army bi-planes shown in the air above the field.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Oakdale Cemetery - Capt. J. W. A. Ellerbrook Monument.
- Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Ellerbrook, Monument
- 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...
- Louis T. Moore Collection

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