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Collection
Identifier: Mss 0036
Collection Overview
Papers consist of O'Cain's correspondence, notes, lectures and other writings, articles, printed material, photographs, clippings, linguistic maps, and sound recordings. Papers relate primarily to Raymond O'Cain and his research in linguistics.Correspondence consists mainly of letters, postcards, and telegrams to O'Cain from other scholars. Correspondents include Raven I. McDavid, Jr., Karl J. Weintraub, A.J. Van Windekens, and S. Greenbaum.O'Cain's writings include...
Dates:
1964-1980
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-125
Collection Overview
The official program for the South Carolina State Fair held in Columbia, S.C., October 22-27, 1923. The program includes a schedule of each day's events as well as advertisements for local businesses.
Dates:
1923
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-022
Abstract
Four atrocity photographs of concentration camp victims in Ohrdruf, a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included are two clippings describing the liberation of Ohrdruf by the U.S. Army.
Dates:
1945, circa 2000
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1092
Abstract
The Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina was founded in 1937 by Miriam B. Wilson as a museum of black slave crafts and related African artifacts. The museum was operated as a private, non-profit organization until her death in 1959. After Wilson's death, the Miriam B. Wilson Foundation was created to operate and manage the Old Slave Mart Museum.The Old Slave Mart Museum Collection is largely comprised of photocopied material, consisting of meeting minutes from the...
Dates:
1929-1987
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-077
Abstract
Publications, short stories, and other papers of Anna Olswanger, children's story author and freelance editor. Included are published copies of Olswanger's short stories "Big Mistreatin' Bittersweet'n Blues" and "Chicken Bone Man," as well as materials relating to Olswanger's father, Berl Olswanger, a blues musician and composer from Nashville (Tennessee), and his sister Gene Olswanger.
Dates:
1985-2004
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-050
Collection Overview
The collection consists of two copies of Ooman, a Gullah language sermon that was written by "Reb. Cudjoe Middletun" from South Santee River, South Carolina. The sermon is not dated and consists of a single typed page.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-004
Collection Overview
Collection consists of two copies of a printed family tree of the Oppenheim family, tracing Oppenheim relatives back to the late 14th century (some gaps in time periods) and concluding in the 1980s. The author of the list of photographs (which appears printed on the family tree) was not consistent in listing names, particularly in terms of including middle names and married names for women. Includes information on the Von Butzbach, Ballin, Bachrach, Menz, Meir, Levi, Weinsburg, Gompei,...
Dates:
1980
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-051
Collection Overview
The folder contains a letter from the morning and evening Optimist Clubs of Charleston to Rev. Robert J. Kelly of Bishop England High School. The letter, which is signed by Don Meeks, the President of the Evening Optimist Club, and John Lavelle, the President of the Morning Optimist Club, requested Bishop England High School's participation in "Youth Appreciation Week." It also includes a list of recommended activities for the week.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1076
Abstract
The membership of the Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.) Prince Hall affiliated chapters are comprised of female relatives of men who are in the Prince Hall Masonry. In 1875, the first subordinate chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star Prince Hall affliated chapter was created by Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (A.F & A.M.), Brother Thornton A. Jackson in Washington, D.C. The Charleston chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star began circa 1912 and are known as Prince Hall Chapter No....
Dates:
1921-2000
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1053
Collection Overview
The collection consists of a scrapbook (1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 35 cm.) and pieces which were removed from the scrapbook and, in some cases, photocopied. The scrapbook is inscribed: "This is 'Mama's' scrapbook and was given to me by 'Mother' and 'Papa' on the 25th of September 1874. B.A.R. Ottolengui." Given to B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui in 1874, the scrapbook contains pseudonymous and other publications by his mother Helen Rodriguez Ottolengui in Civil War era publications as well as...
Dates:
approximately 1860-approximately 1890; Majority of material found within 1860s-1879
