Simmons, Philip, 1912-2009
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1912 June 9 - 2009 June 22
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Directors Participation , 2008 - 2009
File — Box 150, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains meeting minutes, brochures, invitations, and a report on Board of Directors participation.
Dates:
2008 - 2009
Brochures and Invitations , 2002-2004, and undated
File — Box 150, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains meeting minutes, brochures, invitations, and a report on Board of Directors participation.
Dates:
2002-2004, and undated
East Side Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1199
Abstract
The East Side Oral History Project collection contains three oral history interviews conducted by Elizabeth Alston as part of the research process for the Charleston Museum Leaflet Number 30, Between the Tracks: The Heritage of Charleston’s East Side Community. Included in the collection are transcripts of the oral histories conducted with Lorraine Fordham, Frances Mack, and Phillip Simmons. In their interviews, interviewees discuss growing up on the East...
Dates:
approximately 1980-1987
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1149
Abstract
Collection contains documents based on the traveling exhibition (orginially entitled, Transcendent Traditions: Baskets of Two Continents (2008-2010) which traced "the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and American staring from the domestication of rice in Africa two centuries ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. "The exhibition placed Lowcountry basketry in a larger context,...
Dates:
1936-2018, and undated ; Majority of material found within 1998 - 2015
Meeting Minutes, 1992 - 1997
File — Box 150, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Contains meeting minutes, brochures, invitations, and a report on Board of Directors participation.
Dates:
1992 - 1997
Philip Simmons collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1125
Abstract
Philip Simmons (b.1912-d.2009) was an African American blacksmith and artisan specializing in the craft of ironwork in Charleston, South Carolina. Working out of his shop and home on 30 1/2 Blake Street in Charleston, Simmons spent seventy-seven years crafting utilitarian and ornamental ironwork. His work is recognized within the state of South Carolina, nationally and internationally. This collection donated by the Philip Simmons Foundation, holds personal papers with photographs and...
Dates:
1977-2007; Majority of material found within 1990-2000
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Associations, institutions, etc. -- South Carolina 3
- Boards of directors 3
- Trusts and trustees 3
- Charleston County (S.C.) 2
- African American artisans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American basket makers 1
- African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American neighborhoods -- South Carolina 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Charleston (S.C.) 1
- Coiled baskets 1
- East Side (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Gentrification -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Grass weaving 1
- Historic Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Ironwork -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Ironwork -- United States 1
- Oral histories 1
- Traveling exhibitions 1
- brochures 1
- invitations 1
- minutes (administrative records) 1
- reproductions (derivative objects) 1
- sketches 1
- transcripts 1
- typescripts 1