Mrs. F. Holmes scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: 30051
Abstract
Mrs. F. Holmes collected materials that show her broad range of interests and reflect the life of African Americans in the Lowcountry and South Carolina. Mr. Holmes was an educator, doctor, and an activist with the NAACP. This collection contains articles, pictures, correspondence and memorabilia that follow the lives of the Holmes family. Included is information about Mr. Fordham, a black police officer in Charleston, South Carolina at the end of the nineteenth century and Thomas E. Miller, the Reconstruction era politician and the first president of South Carolina State Unversity.
Dates
- Creation: approximately 1880-1940
Extent
1.25 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
- Title
- Inventory of the Mrs. F. Holmes scrapbook, 1880-1940
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Erica Veal
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository
Contact:
125 Bull Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
843-953-7608
averyresearchcenter@cofc.edu
125 Bull Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424 United States
843-953-7608
averyresearchcenter@cofc.edu