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Collection
Identifier: AMN 1104
Abstract
The Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture was founded in 1978 by a group of Avery alumnae and other interested persons in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. Its mission was to rescue the Avery Normal School buildings and to develop an archive and museum for preserving African American history and culture of the South Carlina Lowcountry. Working with the College of Charleston, the property on Bull Street was acquired and, in 1985, the Avery Research Center for African...
Dates:
1978-2000
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1012
Abstract
The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association (AMA) in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865. The Institute originally served as a school for former slaves and free persons of color, providing normal (or, teacher) training to students pursuing careers in education. The school eventually became known just as Avery Institute, operating as a high school with financial support from the AMA until 1947, when it became part of Charleston's segregated public school...
Dates:
1862-1978
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates:
approximately 1890s-2012
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1159
Abstract
The Avery School Memorabilia collection contains documents that pertain to the activities at the Avery Normal Institute. These items include programs from musical and dramatic performances given by the students, commencements, invitations, dance cards and other memorabilia from extra-curricula activities. It also includes some copies of the Avery yearbook and student newspaper. Portions of this collection are available digitally on the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry Digital Library...
Dates:
approximately 1865-2005
; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1954
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-043
Collection Overview
This collection consists of a return of taxable property in the Parish of Saint Philip's and the District of Charleston for lot number 33 on Chalmer's Alley with a brick building owned by Joshua Aydelotte. The tax return was signed by John Roche, Joshua Aydelotte's representative, on February 13, 1813.
Dates:
1812-1813
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Each series contains multiple subseries in which detailed descriptions are provided in each introduction.
Series 1. Biographical Documents (1944-2015, and undated)holds resumes, vitas and biographical sketches; oral interview transcripts and essays about Whipper; tributes and honors which includes honorary degrees, the South Carolina Black Hall of Fame, and the BellSouth-South Carolina African American History Calendar honoree (also refer to Series 10: Awards. Various...
Dates:
1977, and undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-063
Collection Overview
Paper on B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui presented by Mary S. Miller on May 1, 2003 at a dinner meeting of the Robert Wilson Medical History Club. The paper details Ottolengui's life and work as an author and dentist and includes photocopies of: photographs taken by Ottolengui; images of Dr. Fone's Dental Hygiene School; excerpts from Items of interest, a dental journal edited by Ottolengui; a portrait of Ottolengui; and images of Ottolengui's dental office and dental cabinet.
Dates:
2003
File — Box 72: Series Series 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Comprises state wide organizations Whipper worked with during her legislative tenure. Contains various combinations of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, newspaper articles, and brochures. Listed alphabetically.
Dates:
1993
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-116
Collection Overview
This b&w lithograph of Bachman was engraved by Thomas B. Welch from a portrait by R.J. Curtis. The inscription under the print reads, "Rev. J. Bachman. D.D., elected pastor of the Lutheran Church, Charleston, 1811".
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0003
Collection Overview
Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama, concern family matters.
Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger...
Dates:
1860-1938
