This undivided back postcard features an illustration which depicts a man fishing in a rowboat while a sailboat drifts in the waters off Wrightsville Beach.
Banks Channel, showing the beach car trestle from Harbor Island to the beach. The Oceanic Hotel and the Green Lantern Tea Room (built over Banks Channel) are in the background. The 1935 fishing fleet captains included Walter Stokely, Willie Moore,...
This divided back postcard features an illustration depicting a crowd of people hauling fish onto the beach in front of the Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville Beach.
The idea of a national intracoastal waterway system from Maine to the tip of Florida was conceived as early as the late eighteenth century. Several portions were built, with the first link - the Dismal Swamp Canal - being completed in 1805. Other...
This divided back postcard features a group of fishermen posing with their daily catch atop the boat ""Bridgeport"" as they prepare to dock near the Oceanic Hotel at Wrightsville Beach.
Cape Fear Tech Commercial Fishing student Monty Rish, and lead instructor Milton Gillette mend a lightweight type otter trawl in a parking lot off Front Street Wednesday morning. The net is used aboard the R/V Dan Moore by the school's commercial...
Jerome Clark, spreads out part of a net as he made repairs to it in the parking lot of Cape Fear Tech. Wednesday morning. Clark and other members of the Commercial Fishing class, along with members of the Marine Occupations were preparing the net...
North Carolina, New Hanover County, streams, saltwater, fishing, boating
Marion Harrell , standing at the end of an old wooden dock, switches nets off his boat (NC 872188) as 2 men walk among other boats on the other side of Pages Creek on Middle Sound.
Albert Franklin Fales (1891-1943) stands next to an eighteen foot porpoise at the entrance of his father’s business, J. B. Fales’ Fish House at 116 Water Street. The porpoise was harpooned by Capt. Will Moore on June 23, 1932. George Clark and...