Box 1

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Includes genealogical material, family trees, bow tie charts, and a brief biography of Benjamin Berendt written by his son, Gerald Berendt.

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Includes photocopied pages from Berendt's high school yearbook The Argus and his college yearbook The Comet. Original copies of the yearbooks can be found in Special Collections.

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Includes a small mezuzah and a prayer book from the Jewish Welfare Board.

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Travel schedules listing daily appointments and addresses of shoe stores, department stores, and handbag customers in South Carolina and Georgia.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Writings, newspaper clippings, poetry, plays, publications, correspondence, photographs, and other personal papers of Benjamin Berendt and Anna Gelson Berendt of Charleston, South Carolina. Most of the writings, poetry, and plays were composed by Anna Gelson Berendt and include narrative histories of her ancestors in Russia and their immigration to the United States. Also included are materials relating to the Berendt family history and Benjamin's and Anna's travels as well as AZA Chapter...

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Includes a newspaper clipping describing the collapse of a wall at the Berendts' leather goods store on Meeting Street and a photocopy of Benjamin Berendt's obituary.

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Includes biographical writings, family trees and census documents.

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Includes newspaper clippings regarding the Rosen family and Leon Gelson.

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Includes school essays and papers, handwritten notes, and tests.

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Unpublished manuscript recounting the lives of the Gelson and Rosen families in Russia and America as well as Anna's life as a young girl growing up on Yonges Island, South Carolina, and in Charleston, South Carolina.