MS255
Katherine Harriss Byers
Collection
Katherine Harriss Byers and family saved
printed documents covering local, national, and world events of major historical
importance. These items include newspapers, weekly news magazines,
Wilmington Shipyard bulletins of WWII, a Newport News & Dry Dock Year Book,
a history of NC Shipyard 1941 - 1946, news article dated 1934 on President
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Among the news items are pictures and
articles on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist
Ernie Pyle on Normandy, and the commissioning Dec. 6th, 1941of the Zebulon
Vance, first ship built at the Wilmington, NC shipyard.
Also
included are a number of Life and Time magazines covering the
closing battles of WWII and the 1960s space exploration, highlighting
John Glenn.
There are no access restrictions on
this collection.
Processed by Carroll R.
Jones
Manuscripts Collection
William Madison Randall Library
The
University of North Carolina Wilmington
October,
2003
Inventory
Manuscript/Box/File
255/1/1
Newport News
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Pictorial History, 1941, includes hull numbers
and names in chronological order
255/1/2
1992 Wilmington
Star-News "World War II Special
Edition"
255/1/3
Life magazine featuring John Glenn,
Feb. 2, 1962
255/1/4
Life magazine, John Glenn return
from space, March 2, 1962
255/1/5
Life magazine, "My Own
Story of the Orbit", by John Glenn, March 9,
1962
255/2/1
History of NC Shipyard, Five Years
of North Carolina Shipbuilding, 1941 -
1946
255/2/2
Assorted memorabilia:
2 copies of a
patriotic message to those in uniform, from Polk City. Your Friendly
Club
Christmas poem by P.J. Coppedge, Welcome To Trailer
Camp
July, 1943 formal Dance Card, Camp Davis Service Club No.
1
Christmas card w/picture of ship on front inscribed "Ugly Duckling"
NC
Shipbuilding Wartime Plant General Instructions, June, 1943
Wartime Plant
Protection Bulletin no.4
Air Raid Warnings and Blackouts
Prayer
pamphlet from women of South Africa, World Prayer Day, Feb. 16,
1934
Confederate Memorial Day Exercises, June 5,
1938
255/2/3
Vol. III 1941 Shipyard Bulletin (Newport
News Shipyard) Trials - U.S.S. Hornet, hull # 385
Bulletin
1941, Launching of U.S.S. Indiana, hull # 378
Bulletin 1943, NC
Liberty Ships
Vol. X 1945, Aircraft Carrier Midway
Vol. X 1945,
U.S.S Franklin, hull # 396
255/2/4
The North
Carolina Shipbuilder, April 1, 1945
The North Carolina
Shipbuilder, May, 1945
The North Carolina Shipbuilder, June,
1945
The North Carolina Shipbuilder, Sept.
1945
255/2/5
Excerpt from Asheville Citizen - Times,
March 4, 1934, President Roosevelt New Deal
255/2/6
Assorted
newspaper articles: Lindbergh Baby photos, 1932
President Roosevelt's
52nd Birthday Ball
Ernie Pyle Tells of Death Assault on Normandy,
June 11, 1945
Army to Fly Mail Monday, no date or
publication
Commissioning of Zebulon Vance, Dec. 6,
1941
255/2/7
Time magazine, Sept. 3, 1945, Chiang
Kai-shek, cover
255/2/8
Time magazine, Dec. 11, 1944,
Sec. State Edward Stettinius
255/2/9
Time magazine, Dec.
18, 1944, T.V. Soong, cover
255/2/10
Time magazine, Dec.
25, 1944 Norway's Bishop Berggrov, cover
255/2/11
Time
magazine, Jan. 22, 1945, Harry Hopkins, cover
255/2/12
Time
magazine, Aug. 20, 1945
255/2/13
Time magazine, Jan.
24, 1949, Detroit'ss Charles Wilson, CEO General
Motors
255/2/14
December 7, 1941 Wilmington, NC newspaper
headlines includes Roosevelt message to Japanese, and launching of Zebulon
Vance Dec. 6th
Oct.1, 1943 issue The North Carolina
Shipbuilder
NEWSPAPERS
255 folder 1, map drawer
3
The Telegraph Brisbane, Australia
December 7, 1944: Spitfires
Strafe Greeks
December 8, 1944: Dramatic USA Moves; Jap Convoy Smashed Off
Leyte, New Landing Effected
December 9, 1944: Stand On Greece
Upheld
December 11, 1944: Crippling Leyte Blow
The Courier -
Mail, Brisbane, Australia
December 15, 1944, City Final
December 15,
1944
December 13, 1944 December 11, 1944
December 9, 1944, and December 8,
1944
COPYRIGHT: Retained by the authors of
items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States
copyright
law.