Deas, Alston, 1893-1985

Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to the Milward family of South Carolina and includes correspondence, clippings, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to Oaks Plantation and includes miscellaneous genealogical, biographical, and primary sources.

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This collection consists of a photocopy of a poem entitled "The old house on Thadd St." The title refers to the John Rutledge House, a historical house museum in Charleston, S.C. The author is not mentioned on the photocopy but is identified as Miss Nelson by Alston Deas, compiler of the collection.

Collection Overview This collection consists of items related to the Pogson family from the time of their arrival in the United States until the Civil War. It includes clippings, correspondence, calling cards, genealogies, personal effects, family documents, and other miscellaneous biographical materials. The majority of the documents refer to Milward Pogson, Sarah Pogson Smith, Frances Pogson Smith, and Harry Freeman Young Pogson. Alston Deas, the compiler of this collection, has attached explanatory notes and...

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This collection consists of items related to the history of Rose Hill Plantation and includes a map, photographs, clippings, and other miscellaneous materials.

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This collection consists of several leaves of typed and handwritten notes concerning the Rutledge family portraits. It also includes two letters from Louisa Dresser of the Worcester Art Museum to Alston Deas thanking him for information relating to her museum's portrait of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by James Earl.

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This collection consists of items related to the Sinkler family and includes correspondence, clippings, family histories, notes, portraits, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

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This collection includes correspondence and other materials related to the Strawberry Hill Press, the private press of Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Oxford.

Collection Overview

This collection consists items related to the Wigfall family and includes documents, family histories, genealogies, portraits, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.