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Sunset
This divided back postcard features a photograph which captures a view of the sunset from the beach.
Postcard Collections

Tileston School - South Fifth Avenue; Ann Street, southwest corner of Fifth Avenue.
Tileston School, Schools, St. Mary's Cathedral, Churches, Fifth Avenue, Ann Street
Children in costumes pose on Tileston School playground on corner of Fifth Avenue and Ann streets. St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral is in the background. The original school building in the middle of the block was constructed in 1871-1872 with funds from...
Louis T. Moore Collection

St. Mary's Pro-cathedral, South Fifth Avenue and Ann Street.
St. Mary's Cathedral, Churches, Tileston School, Schools, S. Fifth Avenue, Ann Street
View of side of Tileston School. Students in costume are in school yard, before the front wings of the school were added. St. Mary's Catholic Pro-Cathedral is in the background. The original school building in the middle of the block was...
Louis T. Moore Collection

AIDS Quilt Displayed at UNCW
Art exhibits, UNCW
Volunteers prepare panels from the traveling Aids Quilt for display at UNC-Wilmington's Trask Coliseum Thursday afternoon. The quilt, made with panels that honor people who have died of Aids opened Thursday night. Crews worked worked most of the...
Star-News Image Archive

Cape Fear Cyclists
New Hanover County, North Carolina, bikers, bicycles, races, clubs, elected officials, holidays, Revolutionary War site, historical sites, Cape Fear River, Water St.
Seven participants in the Cape Fear Cyclist's Hot 100 Fun Ride string out along Highway 421 on the first leg of their 100 mile ride. The Labor Day weekend ride, with Mayor Don Betz acting as official starter, began at Riverfront Park in downtown...
Star-News Image Archive

First Presbyterian Church steeple
balloons, blimps, Coast Guard
An usual sight graced the Wilmingtn skyline in the form of a surveillance airship. Made by the RCA Corporation, the aerostat, is being tested in the area. The aerotstat flew behind the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church on Third Street in...
Star-News Image Archive

Jennewein's Antiques
Antiques, Wilmington, NC
Virginia Jennewein holds and antique hand bell and shows off some of the items that will be auctioned off in this weekends Jennewin Antique Show. The event, Friday night through Sunday, 6:00 p.m., will feature the Victorian two-drawer sewing table...
Star-News Image Archive

North Carolina National Bank robbery
banks, robberies, Brunswick County, thefts
A robber rifles a teller's money drawer in a holdup at a North Carolina National Bank branch in Shallotte, N.C. His accompolice holds a pistol on the side of the teller's booth. The pair and a getaway driver made off with an undisclosed amount of...
Star-News Image Archive

Student Repairs Fishing Net
Students, Cape Fear Technical Institute
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...
Star-News Image Archive

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Azalea Festival
Photograph of Esther Williams from the 1958 Azalea Festival. Williams was Azalea Queen XI for the festival that ran from March 27-30. Notable celebrities also made appearances during the festival that year including Andy Griffith, Arnold Palmer,...
Azalea Festival Collection

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Azalea Festival
Andy Griffiith, actor, made a guest appearance at the XIII Azalea Festival that took place from March 31 to April 3, 1960.
Azalea Festival Collection

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Azalea Festival
Andy Griffiith, actor, made a guest appearance at the XIII Azalea Festival that took place from March 31 to April 3, 1960. Griffith is most famous for his roles on the hit TV shows Matlock and The Andy Griffith Show, a comedy set in the fictional...
Azalea Festival Collection

Gilchrist House
Queen Anne style house built by E. William Gilchrist (1850-1928) native of Richmond County, NC, commission merchant and a founder of Acme Manufacturing Co. Interior Colonial Revival alterations were made in 1913 after plans drawn by Alex Morton...
Port City Architecture

Frederick J. Lord House
Built in the Italianate style as rental property for Frederick J. Lord (1803-1890), proprietor of Cape Fear Machine Works and Spanish vice-consul. Neoclassical Revival changes (brick veneer and porch) made by James Crocket Williams (1885-1943),...
Port City Architecture

Major James Reilly House
Greek Revival style house built as investment property for William A. Wright (1807-1878), lawyer. Additions made in 1850 when purchased by Alexander McLennan (1820-1856), store clerk and native of Montgomery County. From 1874 to 1883 residence of...
Port City Architecture

Martindale House
Built by Henry Martindale (1796-1874), planter, as family residence. His son, Henry Alexander Martindale (1837-1911), truck farmer, made additions to house. Inherited by his daughter, Rebecca Martindale Johnson (1870-1948). House remained in...
Port City Architecture

Powell-Yopp House
Greek Revival style house built for Robert Powell (1824-1862), carriage maker; and wife Sarah (1823-1888). Willed to Sarah E. H. Yopp (1829-1904). Craftsman style additions made by grandson, Alfred Harding Yopp (1876-1973), musician and owner of...
Port City Architecture

Orton Plantation
The original one-and-one-half story plantation house was built for "King" Roger Moore (1694-1751), native of Goose Creek, SC and first permenant settler in the Lower Cape Fear region. Fredrick Jones Hill (1792-1861), physician, planter, and NC...
Port City Architecture

Chadwick House
Italianate style house built during ownership of Susan Hawes Redding (1820-1902), seamstress; and son, Charles Hawes (1837-1893). Rear addition and modifications made by David N. Chadwick (1856-1914), saloon keeper.
Port City Architecture

Souvenir of Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Oceanic Hotel
This postcard booklet features 20 illustrates scenes from around Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Among the sites included are the Courhouse, Old Post Office, Steamer Wilmington, Atlantic Coastline Depot and the Oceanic Hotel.
Postcard Collections

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