Box Special Collections Oversize Box 1

Collection Overview From the Collection: Typewritten transcriptions of original records held by St. John's Lutheran Church of Charleston, South Carolina, from 1742 to 1931. Transcripts were part of two Federal Works Progress Administration projects carried out from 1935 through 1937 and sponsored by the College of Charleston. Included are transcriptions of records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, births, and deaths, rules of the Lutheran Church of German Protestants, a journal containing the five articles of faith, the act of...

Collection Overview From the Collection: The collection consists of materials relating to Charlotte A. Myers, her adopted daughter Caroline Griswold, and Caroline Griswold’s nieces and nephews from the Hartley family. Materials relating to Myers contain correspondence and a newspaper clipping about her divorce from Rufus Wilmot Griswold, including letters from her lawyers Samuel Sherman and David Paul Brown, and letters to her husband’s former brother-in-law Hamilton Randolph Searles. There is also a daguerreotype portrait of...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Biographical materials, writings, materials relating to the Elliott Society of Science and Art, astronomical charts, specimens, prints, and other assorted papers of Lewis R. Gibbes, Professor of mathematics, astronomy, and physics at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1838-1892. Biographical materials include assorted class notes, pamphlets, miscellaneous receipts for room and board, and other ephemera relating to Gibbes' studies in France. Also included is a glass...

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A pencil original score showing melody lines with three verses and a chorus. Alma Mater for the College of Charleston written by Edward McCrady, Jr. (Class of 1927). A musical score with three verses and a chorus handwritten in pencil. Possibly written in response to a contest posted in "The College of Charleston Magazine" (Dec. 1934) sponsored by the Cliosophic Literary Society at the College of Charleston.

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A first communion certificate for Emily Mary Joseph England in the Cathedral of St. Finbar, dated April 22nd, 1849. Two Bible verses (Deut. XXXII and Revelations ii, 10) are printed on the certificate; it is unsigned by the pastor. The certificate is a mass-produced form from either Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh. The original certificate has been pasted on to more durable paper for preservation purposes.