Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jenkins Orphanage papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract
A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates:
1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980
William Saxon Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract
The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982
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- African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
- Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Orphanages -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Orphans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
- administrative records 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- business cards 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1
- financial records 1
- invitations 1
- pamphlets 1
- photocopies 1
- photographs 1
- printed ephemera 1
- programs (documents) 1
- rosters 1
- scrapbooks 1 + ∧ less
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