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Tornadoes in Charleston

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-083
Collection Overview This collection consists of two typed reports, a map and newspaper clippings about the two tornadoes which hit Charleston, S.C. on the morning of September 29, 1938. The first report by John E. Lockwood (meteorologist U.S. Weather Bureau) gives a description of the tornadoes paths, building damage, numbers killed by tornadoes and the value of property damage. The second report follows up with eyewitness accounts from Mr. W.A. Brunson, Mr. R.C. Alderedge (Weather Bureau Office), Mr. J.F. Fox,...
Dates: 1938
Found in: Special Collections

Typescript: "Two-Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American Business in Charleston, South Carolina", bulk: undated

 File — Box 146, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains documents collected in prepartation for the establishment of the Avery Research Center; a archive, small museum, and cultural center for public programming.

Dates: Majority of material found in undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement / 5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / 5.6.1: Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture (ALAAHC): Board of Directors / 5.6.1.6: Various Research Documents

Typescripts of Avery Institute's and Avery Research Center's History, 1994-2000, and undated

 File — Box 147, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper and magazine articles.

Dates: 1994-2000, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement / 5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / 5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston

Washington Light Infantry records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0052
Abstract

The Washington Light Infantry was formed as a body of "citizen soldiers" in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1807 and incorporated in 1824. This collection contains typewritten transcriptions of their records (1820-1936) compiled during a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) project in 1935 and 1936, and one printed letter.

Dates: 1820-1936
Found in: Special Collections

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

YWCA of Greater Charleston, Inc., records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1078
Abstract The Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Charleston, which originated in 1907, has served communities in Charleston and the lowcountry area of South Carolina for over a century. Currently, the YWCA of Greater Charleston, Inc., strives to provide programs and services for all people and holds a mission to eliminate racism and to empower women.The collection documents the founding and history of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Charleston, South Carolina...
Dates: 1906-2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Henry T. Zacharias ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0056
Collection Overview

Collection consists of two indexed ledgers (1905-1908; 1909-1910) containing accounts with numerous businesses, organizations, and individuals for construction and general contracting. Accounts represent many notable buildings of Charleston, South Carolina, among them the Confederate Home and College, the Medical University of South Carolina, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, St. Philip's Church, and a number of architecturally significant houses.

Dates: 1905-1910
Found in: Special Collections

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clippings (information artifacts) 22
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black-and-white photographs 9
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
South Carolina -- History 8
minutes (administrative records) 8
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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 7
typescripts 7
financial records 6
scrapbooks 6
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 5
certificates 5
color photographs 5
programs (documents) 5
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 4
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News and courier (Charleston, S.C. : Daily) 2
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account books 2
administrative records 2
audiocassettes 2
awards 2
bills (legislative records) 2
booklets 2
broadsides (notices) 2
compact discs 2
congressional committee records 2
congressional committee reports 2
constitutions 2
floppy disks 2
legislative records 2
letters (correspondence) 2
maps (documents) 2
newsletters 2
photograph albums 2
poetry 2
postcards 2
prints (visual works) 2
questionnaires 2
receipts (financial records) 2
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sketchbooks 2
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African American History Month 1
African American band directors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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