New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Improved Order of Red Men
Improved Order of Red Men, horse, horses, Feast of Pirates, parade
The Improved Order of Red Men with a horse drawn vehicle float in the Feast of Pirates parade, 1927-1929.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

National Cemetery Wilmington N.C.
cemeteries, Confederacy, deaths, wars, graveyards, tombstones, Market St., burials, military, funerals
Tree- lined Street in the cemetery showing the gazebo, which has a pointed roof and wrough-iron decorative work on it and white stone grave markers. The Street is unpaved. First internments were in April and May 1867. Where approximately...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Parade of Returning First World War Soldiers
First World War, 81st Division, parade, World War I, horse, horses
Crowds line the West corners of North Front and Princess streets of Wilmington, N.C., for a parade of returning First World War soldiers in 1919. The center displays a horse drawn vehicle draped with the 81st "Wildcat" Division banner. The 81st...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Military men line up on Chestnut Street between Front and Second streets.
Chestnut Street, N. Front Street, N. Second Street, Cape Fear Club, Cape Fear Hotel
The vacant lot behind the men is the current site of the Cape Fear Hotel, which was built in 1924. The Dr. Thomas F. Wood House on the corner of Second and Chestnut streets is in the background. The top of the Cape Fear Club is at right.
Louis T. Moore Collection

Arab Shrine Club Fish Fry
fraternal organizations, children's burn center, charities
Shriner's fish fry, 4 men in line to get take -out boxes, all in work clothes with 3 wearing hardhats, first man in line has 5 to-go boxes, 2 Shriner's wearing fezzes, one looking toward camera and one leaning on counter with his back to camera, on...
Star-News Image Archive

Bachelor Auction at Galleria
crowd, audience, Wrightsville Ave., Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, auction, auctioneer,WGNI, radio station, men and women, ladies and gentlemen, palms, neon palm
Jaime Donegan, in leather pants, attempts to wow the young lady holding a rose as he dances across the stage in the Bid For Bachelors, Friday night at the Galleria near Wrightsville Beach. Donegan is a director/actor with J.H. Cargill Productions...
Star-News Image Archive

Belevedere Plantation Auction
speaker,subdivisions, seller, buyers, land, houses, country clubs, golf courses, Pender County, Hampstead, North Carolina, waterfront property, water access
Auctioneer Hal Hines, up front, auctions real estate at Belvedere Plantation to a crowd of men & women seated mostly in folding chairs under a large striped tent.
Star-News Image Archive

Belville, NC (1)
Brunswick County, North Carolina, stores, trailers, hotels, motels, signs
A street scene showing businesses and billboards in Belville; Towel City, Crisp Mobile Home Park, Crisp Sales and Manufacturing Co., Horne's , Days Inn, Holiday Lodge, Holiday Lodge restaurant, 3 unidentified men at the Holiday Lodge.
Star-News Image Archive

Books for Servicemen and Servicewomen
Reading, military, packages, New Hanover County, North Carolina
Caroleen Hall packs paperback books into cardboard boxes to be weighed before they are shipped to service men and servicewomen overseas. She is an employee of Cape Fear Bonded Warehouse, where the books are being packed.
Star-News Image Archive

Boys Club Reunion
Clubs, Wilmington, NC
Men who used to be "boys" of the Boys Club on Vance St. from the years 1921-1923 in a group shot remembering their past at the club. This was at their monthly meeting, Monday, June 3 at 6 pm.
Star-News Image Archive

Carolina Beach Boardwalk (1)
utility poles, boardwalks, beaches, Carolina Beach
Bob Lambertz, left, and Robert Fox pull on a line as Harold Hilton operates a tractor to pull up an old utility pole at the Carolina Beach Boardwalk at Harper Ave. The men work for the town of Carolina Beach and were removing the pole because it is...
Star-News Image Archive

Malcolm X Day Street Festival
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, African Americans, street fairs, ethnic clothing, sellers, music, libraries
The 2nd annual Malcom X Day street festival took place on Red Cross St. between 6th and 7th streets. A group of festival goers (mostly men) check out a vendor on the sidewalk selling a variety of Black-themed tee-shirts. The brick building that...
Star-News Image Archive

Marines Prepare Machine Gun
Training, Camp LeJeune, NC
Sweltering in near 100 degree heat, Marines in foxholes on Onslow Beach prepare .50-caliber machine gun for anti-aircraft use. While Hawk surface-to-air missiles were the primary line of defense against drones playing the part of enemy aircraft ,...
Star-News Image Archive

Men Playing Checkers
Brooklyn Arts District, Wilmington, NC
On any given afternoon, the cab stand at the corner of Nixon and Brown street is the place for the Brooklyn neighborhood checker players. This particular afternoon was a little wet, so the crowd was down. Here, Lloyd McKoy and Gerald Brown take...
Star-News Image Archive

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

Mr. Greater Cape Fear
men's, body, building, Wilmington, contest, New Hanover County
Some contestants in the Mr. Great Cape Fear contest are (left to right) Danny Searcy, John Galarde (Mr. Wilmington), W.C. Bain, Danny Holden, David Moore, Andrew Bellamy, Acie Robinson, and Jerry Harms.
Star-News Image Archive

Spot Nets in Pages Creek
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.
Star-News Image Archive

Sunward Yacht Corp.
boat repairs, boats, New Hanover County, businesses
John Werdal, Dave McCall, Mark Nedabylek, and Randy Lewis finish a splash rail and prepare the bottom of a 48 ft. power boat for painting. The men all work Sunward Yacht Corp. The work was done at Port Cape Fear Marina and Boatyard on River Road...
Star-News Image Archive

Find results with:

		Thumbnail with title
		Grid with smaller thumbnails and more detail