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Box 17

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Pivnick and Stringfellow discussion of Johns Island Plantation owner families, undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 5
Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape: Sound quality-fair: voices muffled in the beginning of tape. The sound improves further in the recording. Side A contains long pause in recording. The cassette is labeled: "June 88 visit with Shoolbred at Snee Farm" (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina). Sides A and B: Stringfellow is tracing Johns Island history through her family, the Andells, and other families. Those mentioned are the Boykins, Stanyarnes, Gibbs, Greggs and Vanderhorsts, among...
Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Discussion with Stringfellow and Pivnick, 25 August, 1991

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 5
Collection Overview Sixty (60) minute cassette tape Side A-Audio quality: clear and good. Talks about a discussion Stringfellow had with Greg Craven. Mentions Union army on Johns Island during the Civil War; Battle of Bloody Creek, fought by African-Americans. Property owned by Kinsey Burden. Also mentioned Adams Run, Brickhouse, Steamboat Landing, and James Island bridge. Side B-Audio quality: clear and good. Civil War on Johns Island discussion continue. Tape cut off with Stringfellow relating her...
Dates: 1991
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Stringfellow's "Life on John's Island" Elderhostel lecture, (Tape 1 of 4), March, 1988

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Sides A and B: Sound Quality-Good. "Life on John's Island'-See Box 3, Folder 3 for transcript.

Dates: 1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Stringfellow's "Life on John's Island" Elderhostel lecture, (Tape 2 of 4), March, 1988

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side A and B: Sound quality-fair to poor. See Box 3, Folder 3 for transcript.

Dates: 1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Stringfellow's "Life on John's Island" Elderhostel lecture, (Tape 3 of 4), 27 April, 1988

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side 1: Audio quality-Fair. Talks about her ancestors, the Andells. Built a Clubhouse in 1915. Palmetto Lodge, fresh water pump. Mentions Native Americans originally on the land. Tape stops short. Side 2: Audio quality-Fair to poor. Discussion begins 3/4 from the beginning. Talks about Gullah, Native Americans.

Dates: 1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Stringfellow's "Life on John's Island" Elderhostel lecture, (Tape 4 of 4), 27 April, 1988

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 6
Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side A:Sound quality-fair-good (sound muffled at times) Discusses Revolutionary War on Johns and Seabrook Islands; the end of the Civil War and the work of the Freedmen's Bureau; the rise of the white farmers; the Seabrook family subdivision of land; education for African-Americans on Johns Island; discusses Johns Island book project with Pivnick; answers audience questions: briefly explains the terms "carpetbaggers," and "Gullah." Side B: Sound...
Dates: 1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Scholarly lectures on enslaved life and free people of color, undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 7
Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape

Sound quality-poor. Professors from Northwestern University are not identified.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

Recording of history conference-Three (3) cassette tapes, undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 7
Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tapes

Sound quality good on all recordings Features historians Charles Joyner and Peter Wood reading papers regarding enslavement in South Carolina.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials

VHS Video Tape of Rural Mission, Inc., Johns Island, undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 7
Collection Overview From the Series:

Contains mostly audio cassette tapes, many with oral histories conducted by Stringfellow and Pivnick.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 9: Audio Visual Materials
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