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    • Whale - Wrightsville Beach, 1928.

    • Whale - Wrightsville Beach, 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large fifty-ton sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth....
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Whale - Wrightsville Beach, 1928.

    • Whale - Wrightsville Beach, 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Whale - April 1928.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Whale

    • A large sperm whale washed up on the beach (pictured center). The whale measured fifty-four feet in length and thirty-three feet in girth. Its tail was fourteen feet wide and the lower jaw was ten feet long and contained forty-six teeth. The whale...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Tinga Nursery - Bulb Farm - Castle Hayne.

    • Tinga Nursery - Bulb Farm - Castle Hayne.

    • Tinga Nursery, Nursery, Bulb Farm, Castle Hayne, MacRae

    • A native of Sappmeer, Friesland, The Netherlands, Eelco Tinga (1882-1973) was one of the immigrants who Hugh MacRae brought to the Castle Hayne area. Located in northern New Hanover County, Castle Hayne was named for Captain Roger Haynes (died...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Blueberry Farm - Huntington.

    • Blueberry Farm - Huntington.

    • Blueberry Farm, Blueberries, Huntington

    • A native of Sappmeer, Friesland, The Netherlands, Eelco Tinga (1882-1973) was one of the immigrants who Hugh MacRae brought to the Castle Hayne area. Located in northern New Hanover County, Castle Hayne was named for Captain Roger Haynes (died...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • B'nai Israel Bombing

    • B'nai Israel Bombing

    • New Hanover County, Jews, policemen, religions, bombs, explosions, judaism, conservative

    • An unidentified Wilmington police detective enters the synagogue at 2601 Chesnut St where another man looks out the door. The synagogue's vestibule and facade was heavily damaged (one column down, windows blown out and holes in the brick walls) by...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Wrightsville Beach - Banks Channel.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Banks Channel.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Banks Channel, Oceanic, Hotels, Frying Pan Boat Club

    • Boats tied up at the Frying Pan Boat Club dock on Banks Channel, north of the bridge. The Oceanic Hotel is in the background. The hotel's pavilion is at right, where boats were kept to carry guests out into the ocean via Moore's Inlet, which was...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Boating at Greenfield Lake

    • Boating at Greenfield Lake

    • Recreational activities, boating, WPA projects, Azaleas, parks, 3rd Street, spillways, Dr. Samuel Green

    • Canoes and rowboats being paddled between the cypress trees on Greenfield Lak where men are shown dressed in dark pants, white shirts, ties and hats. The lake was named for Dr. Samuel Green who owned a rice plantation on the site. The land was...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Books for Servicemen and Servicewomen

    • 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
    • Yopp House

    • Yopp House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Walter E. Yopp (1860-1933), funeral director; and wife, Emma H. Donnelly (1872-1955). He was a Wilmington city alderman for fifteen years, a New Hanover County commissioner for twenty years and a trustee of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Andrew Harriss

    • Dr. Andrew Harriss

    • Harriss family, physicians, Obstetricians, Oakdale Cemetery

    • Dr. Andrew Howell Harriss, son of George Harriss and Julia Ophelia Sanders Harriss, was born March 7th, 1872 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Mary Montgomery Wilcox Bolles October 14th, 1896. His grandfather, William James Harris was...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Bertram Williams

    • Dr. Bertram Williams

    • Williams family, physicians

    • Dr. Bertram R. Williams (1920-), son of Ralph B. and Bessie Sutton Williams, was born on July 4th, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Ellen Shannon and attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1940) and Vanderbilt University, where he recieved...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Bruce Hugh Dorman

    • Dr. Bruce Hugh Dorman

    • Dorman family, Taylor family, physicians, New Hanover Memorial Hospital

    • Dr. Bruce Hugh Dorman, son of Samuel and Marie Dorman, was born July 22nd, 1924 in Plainfield, N.J. He was educated at Duke University (1946) where he also earned his M.D. (1948). He married Miss Suzanne Taylor. He was in private practice. In 1971,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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