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    • Boy Scouts Clean-up

    • Boy Scouts Clean-up

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, scouting, organizations, garbage, Atlantic Ocean, badges, parks

    • Three boy scouts deposit trash and a beer can into a metal trash can at a ocean front Carolina Beach park area.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Lumina 2

    • Lumina 2

    • Wrightsville Beach, dances, dance halls, pavilions, dance floors, bands, orchestras, Henry E. Bonitz, Consolidated Railway Light & Power Company

    • Original appearance of Lumina Ballroom. Visitors can be seen on both of the wide outside staircases. An American flag is flying from a tower. A large rowboat is sitting on the sand. Power lines can be seen in the background.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Wilmington Waterfront

    • 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
    • 8th and Market Streets

    • 8th and Market Streets

    • residences, churches, medians, mansions, Market Street, 8th St.

    • Market St, looking West, near 8th St. The plaza has decorative planters with flowers and power lines. A horse and buggy is parked on the right side of the 2 lane road. Steeples of First Baptist Church and St. Paul's Lutheran Church can been seen in...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Aerial view of Dawson Street

    • Aerial view of Dawson Street

    • New Hanover County, business

    • Photograph shows an aerial view of Dawson Street between 16th and 17th Streets in Wilmington, N.C. Can identify a Dairy Queen, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Wachovia Bank. There are other businesses as well.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Big Dawg Productions

    • Big Dawg Productions

    • Wilmington, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, theater, film, television, stages, actors, actresses, plays, Thalian Hall

    • The cast from the play You Can't take it With You- top row-left to right- Alex Wharff (Tony Kirby), Scott Simpson (Boris Kolenkhov), bottom row- left to right- Katherine Vernon (Alice Sycamore), Pat Higle (Martin "Grandpa" Vanderhof, Suellen Yate...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Brunswick Technical College

    • Brunswick Technical College

    • Community Colleges, Brunswick County, NC

    • "Fleging Brunswick technical College now has a temporary home and a sign at Supply. The temporary home, the school's first, is the former county extension office building. Joseph Bailey Carter, newly named "charter" president of the college,...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Traffic Waits for Bridge to Open

    • Traffic Waits for Bridge to Open

    • Traffic jams, Bridges, Wilmington, NC

    • Traffic sits at the foot of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge(at Wooster St.) Monday morning waiting for the gates to rise. The bridge, plagued by opening and closing difficulties, kept drivers trying to enter and leave Wilmington waiting by not...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Sound side of Lumina

    • Sound side of Lumina

    • ICW, North Carolina, Lifeguard stand, Early 20th century, Banks Channel

    • Photograph shows the sound side of Lumina at Wrightsville Beach with swimmers and sailboats in the Intracoastal Waterway. Harbor Island can be seen in the background.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Lumina 1

    • Lumina 1

    • Atlantic Ocean, Porches, beaches, Wrightsville Beach, Swimmers,

    • Ocean front view of Lumina Ballroom showing the additions of the pillars and veranda. People are congregating at the water's edge, on the veranda and under the building. Beach-goers have an array of outfits on, bathing suits, casual and Sunday...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • English Steamer

    • English Steamer

    • commodities, crops, Cape Fear River, exports, steamers, businesses, warehouses

    • Bales of cotton being brought in and hoisted onto a ship at Alexander Sprunt and Son on Nutt St. Men can be seen on the wharf and on the ship. Sprunt was one of the largest cotton exporters in the South. The company also operated the Champion...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • First Baptist Church

    • First Baptist Church

    • Samuel Sloan, Hurricane Fran, steeples, churches

    • First Baptist Church at 5th and Market Streets is made of red brick with twin spires. The Wilmington Light Infantry building can be seen in the background. Power lines are seen along the streets, and the Street is hard surfaced. The Sunday School...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Riverfront of Wilmington

    • Riverfront of Wilmington

    • Government Buildings, boats, U.S. Custom House, Trust Building

    • A view of the Wilmington riverfront taken from the Brunswick side of the Cape Fear River. The U.S. Custom House and the Trust Building can be seen as well as other businesses and several boats of varying sizes.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Portrait of James Walker, Architect

    • Portrait of James Walker, Architect

    • Walker family, Architects, Builders, Philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraiture

    • This portrait of James Walker can be found hanging on a wall at UNC-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, then later moved to...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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