Box 7

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Materials include a chapel service book containing hymns sung during service and a template program for college vesper services during 1934.

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Materials include the program for Robert Smalls Day. L. Howard Bennett, principal of Avery Institute, was the guest speaker at the event.

Collection Overview From the Record Group: Each small collection is considered a series. 1. Hicks and Steele Family Papers: The Hicks family, originally from Savannah, Georgia and New York, are an African-American family in Charleston, South Carolina. John O. Hicks married Sadie Steele and had one son, J. Maurice Hicks, father of Janet Hicks. The Steele family, originally from Missouri, are decedents of the Randolph family who left Charleston, South Carolina in 1800 and relocated to...

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Photographs include a group photo of the National Youth Administration Officials and Heads of Institutions in southern States at Regional Conference - Atlanta University and an autographed photograph of Marian Anderson and her accompanist.

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Materials include an article from the National Negro Digest about the Robert Smalls School and W. Kent Alston.

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Issue of the Robert Smalls High School Newspaper published at the end of W. Kent Alston's final school year before retirement.

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Loose materials that were folded into the photo album and separated for better perservation. Materials include an amateur watercolor painting from page 14 of the album, a post card addressed to John Alston from page 34 of the album, as well as a bible page, a program from a communion service at an unidentified church, and a handwritten description of African American Baptist cemeteries on Alexander Street in Charleston, SC from the back cover of the album.

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A large photo that was stored loosely in between pages 3 and 4 of the photograph album.

Scope and Contents A Victorian photograph album of rubbed and embossed leather and metal clasp, with some gilt and hand colored blossoms on the front board. Album kept by Anna E. Alston containing 72 photographs, mostly of African Americans with some white subjects as well, taken in Columbia, Charleston, Savannah, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Providence, and Boston. The subjects of most photos are not identified. The complete list of photographers includes: Hennries (124 1/2 Main Street Columbia, South...

Scope and Contents Materials include an autograph book with entries dating between 1884 and 1919 from friends living in Charleston S.C., Georgetown S.C., Chelsea Ma., and Wilberforce, Oh. The signatures accompany messages of hope, spirituality, and friendship for Anna. Signatures accompanied by a Charleston address include: E. V. Hollings, A. L. Hollings, Jos. G. Wheeler, I. S. Wheeler, A. L. McClennan, M. E. Causte, Lucy Hughes Brown of 11 Nassau Street, D. Brown of 11 Nassau Street, Laura A. Brailsford....