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Trott family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0136
Abstract

Includes materials compiled by Charleston native Mabel Trott FitzSimons, including genealogical data and family history relating to Bailey, Cambridge, Cave, FitzSimons, Good, Gregorie, Hendricks, Trott, Venning, and Wood families. Also includes a copy of sailor Henry W. Hendricks' Civil War diary, and records regarding Myrtle Grove Plantation.

Dates: 1836-1981; Majority of material found within 1940-1973
Found in: Special Collections

Type specimen sheets of Eastern Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0123
Collection Overview This collection consists of 23 type specimen sheets measuring 56 x 44 cm. (folded to 28 x 21 cm.) printed on various paper stock. Each type specimen sheet is accompanied by a printed cover stock which lists Eastern Corporation of Bangor, Maine paper mill brands and lists the merchants in alphabetical order by city. Included is a history and use of the type and biographical information on the designer of the specimen sheet. Juliette Wiles Staats made the chemise and slipcover that houses the...
Dates: 1947
Found in: Special Collections

Anna Cohen Price Ullman interview

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Identifier: Mss 1034-093
Abstract

Transcript, index, and audiocassettes of a taped interview with Anna Cohen Price Ullman conducted by Phyllis Dreyfus on December 1, 1989. Topics discussed are Ullman's family history in Russia, her immigration to America, growing up in New York City, her marriage to Irving Price, and their life in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1989
Found in: Special Collections

Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring papers

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Identifier: AMN 1033
Abstract Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968), a Charleston native and attorney became a Federal Judge in 1942. At the time of his divorce and remarriage in 1945 to Elizabeth A. Hoffman (1895-1966), he began to hand down more liberal decisions, such as equalizing the pay of black and white teachers and outlawing South Carolina's white-only Democratic Primary. He soon ruled that separate but equal was per se inequality. Because he and his wife socialized with African Americans and held...
Dates: approximately 1947-1964
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Weinberg and Moses family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1135
Abstract Photographs, letters, and clippings relating to the Weinberg and Moses families of Manning, South Carolina. The majority of the collection consists of photographs, primarily of the Weinberg family, in particular Flora Moses Weinberg and two of her children, Jacob Albert Weinberg Jr. and Rosalie Virginia Weinberg, and also includes a number of images featuring other members of the extended family. It also contains letters from Andrew Jackson Moses, Perry Moses, and Perry Moses Jr. to various...
Dates: 1838-2013
Found in: Special Collections

Wilkinson and Keith family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0111
Abstract

The Wilkinson and Keith family papers consist of correspondence and other documents among the Wilkinson, Keith, Siegling, Haskell, and Marshall families and their friends dating from 1785 to 1920. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1820 to 1890, a large portion of which chronicles Willis Keith's experiences as a Confederate soldier in 1862-1863.

Dates: 1785-1920; Majority of material found within 1820-1890
Found in: Special Collections

Young Men's Christian Association (Charleston, S.C.) scrapbooks

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Identifier: Mss 0057
Collection Overview The collection contains scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1885-1980, relating to local, state, regional and national YMCA activities. Several scrapbooks relate to the Department of Physical Education. Other scrapbooks contain pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, tickets, broadsides and other ephemera such as receipts, visitor passes, building pledges and other forms related to sponsored lectures, sporting events, dances, concerts, programs and memberships. A bound volume (1894) of the Young...
Dates: 1885-1980
Found in: Special Collections

YWCA of Greater Charleston, Inc., records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1078
Abstract The Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Charleston, which originated in 1907, has served communities in Charleston and the lowcountry area of South Carolina for over a century. Currently, the YWCA of Greater Charleston, Inc., strives to provide programs and services for all people and holds a mission to eliminate racism and to empower women.The collection documents the founding and history of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Charleston, South Carolina...
Dates: 1906-2007
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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