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Cape Fear Motor Sales
No full textTaken at Cape Fear Motor Sales at the opening of the Mercury Dealership at North 2nd Street in Wilmington, NC between 1940 and 1955. The woman on the left holding the bottle is Easter Peeler (1921-2003), buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park. The woman holding the cup is Catherine Freimuth (1922-1961). The gentleman between the two women is James Allen Taylor (Jr?) (1913-1976?). The young boy is P. R. Smith, Jr. The man behind Smith to his left holding the bottle is Rossie Holmes ( -1986). The gentleman on the far left under the light is P. R. Smith, Sr., (1892-1952?), buried in Oakdale Cemetery
The Glenn Restaurant
No full textCommercial building constructed for Esther Naomi Mintz Yopp (1891-1972) and built by contractor, Sam Blake. Occupied by various restaurants from 1947 to 1969. Building remains in family
WB-10-Moonlight Sailing on Banks Channel, Wrightsville Beach, near Wilmington, N.C.
No full textThis divided back linen postcard features a sailboat race in Banks Channel at Wrightsville Beach
Winter Park school football team
No full textThe Winter Park school football team
Left to right, front row: W. B. Cole, Bobby Hope, Florenz Worrell, Jimmy Creech, Harry Sneeden, Henry Capps, Johnny Capps. Back row: Coach Ed Lane, Charles George, Jack Alford, Burton Grant, Graham Cole, Dural Worrel, Thomas Versal
Pleasure Boating on Banks Channel, Wrightsville Beach near Wilmington, N.C.
No full textThis divided back linen postcard features a sailboat race in Banks Channel at Wrightsville Beach
SS American Traveller at the Statue of Liberty
No full textThe SS American Traveller sails by the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor. It was the 237th ship completed by the NC Shipbuilding Company
NCRPC0973k
No full textPage 14 of the text, "Five Years of North Carolina Shipbuilding," presents the history of the Wilmington shipyard from 1941-1946
NCRPC0973s
No full textSports kept employees of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company active when they were not working on building vessels. This page features some photographs from the booklet, "Five Years of North Carolina Shipbuilding.
SS Santa Isabel Launching
No full textLaunching of the SS Santa Isabel on April 16, 1946, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, in Wilmington, NC. Hull number 243
Launching of the SS Santa Barbara
No full textOnlookers watch as the SS Santa Barbara is launched into the Cape Fear River on Jan. 24, 1946. It was the 238th ship completed by the NC Shipbuilding Company