Page 3 of letter from John Porterfield Owen to his father James Owen, written during his freshman year at Princeton University. John talks about the difficulties of school, as well as the political differences between North and South. John later...
Page 4 of letter from John Porterfield Owen to his father James Owen, written during his freshman year at Princeton University. John talks about the difficulties of school, as well as the political differences between North and South. John later...
Page 1 of letter from John Porterfield Owen to his father James Owen, written during his freshman year at Princeton University. John talks about the difficulties of school, as well as the political differences between North and South. John later...
Page 2 of letter from John Porterfield Owen to his father James Owen, written during his freshman year at Princeton University. John talks about the difficulties of school, as well as the political differences between North and South. John later...
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...
Launching of the S.S. Alexander Martin, North Carolina Shipbuilding Company hull 18. Pictured left to right are Mrs. Hargrove Bellamy, Mr. Hargrove Bellamy, Mrs. Louise Hooper (mother of sponsor), Mr. Roger Williams (President of NC Shipbuilding...
Launching of the SS James Sprunt, hull 64, on February 2, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, NC. The ship was sponsored by Miss Charlotte Sprunt. Pictured left to right are: J. Lawrence Sprunt, uncle of sponsor;...
Launching of the SS William D. Moseley on March 5, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company located in Wilmington, NC. Pictured are: Mrs. O.O. Cooper, mother of sponsor (second from left); Mr. Sherwood Dudley (third from left); Mr. O.O....
Launching of the U.S.S. Vinton on Aug. 25, 1944. It was the 138th ship completed by the NC Shipbuilding Company. Pictured left to right are W.S. McMahon, grandmother of sponsor, great grandmother of sponsor, sister of sponsor, sister of sponsor,...
Helen Lovering's shadow can be seen taking the photograph of this unknown woman in front of a treet at Orton Plantation. Although born in Hawthorne, New Jersey, Helen had strong family ties to Wilmington and lived there for most of her adult...
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...