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Box 1

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

Unity and Friendship Society Certificate of Membership, issued 17 December, 1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Collection Overview

Original certificate signed by Arthur L. Macbeth for plot #81, at their cemetery located on Magnolia Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina. Document is in "Fragile Condition."

Dates: 1894

Minute and financial ledger of the Trustees of Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, 1877-1880

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Collection Overview

Documents McLeish as "S.S. Superintendent," 20 January 1880. Ledger is in "Fragile Condition."

Dates: 1877-1880

Avery Normal Institute: Composition notebook with Latin class assignments, circa 1890s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Collection Overview From the Series: The daughter of William Henry and Anna McLeish Smith. Holds personal documents created and collected by Smith Atkins as a Avery Normal Institute student (Class of 1915), programs from her organ performances; and "Certificate of Copyright Registration," from the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C for "The Avery Song." (music by Smith). A sub-series contains Avery Normal Institute memorabilia collected by Smith includes the original manuscript of "The Early History of Avery Normal Institute...
Dates: circa 1890s

Avery Normal Institute: Commencement Essay-"On the Threshold," May, 1915

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Collection Overview

Handwritten manuscript by Smith. Document is in "Fragile Condition." Please use photocopies.

Dates: 1915

Booklet: Constitution of the State of South Carolina, 4, December, 1895

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Collection Overview

Booklet used in Avery class instruction. This document is in "Fragile Condition."

Dates: 1895

Recital Programs, 1920-1921

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Collection Overview

Regarding organ recitals by Smith with Eloise C. Uggams, Contralto, at Avery Normal Institute (1920) and Morris Street Baptist Church (1921). Documents are in "Fragile Condition."

Dates: 1920-1921

Certificates, 1912, 1925

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Collection Overview

Contains "Certificate of Copyright Registration," from Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., for "The Avery Song," poem by Beulah Shecut, music by Maude H. Smith, 9 May 1925; and "Membership Ticket," for Smith from Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, 30 June 1912.

Dates: 1912, 1925

Correspondence, circa 1941

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Collection Overview

Contains handwritten condolence letter from Jeannette Keeble Cox, on the passing of Smith-Atkins, father, William H. Smith.

Dates: circa 1941