Box 6
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Fraser Family history, Petition to Prove Will, Correspondence, and James Fraser, Jr. Transcript, 1920-1948, 2001
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-44, 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains a history/essay on the Fraser family mainly focusing on James Fraser, Sr., and how his career progressed and what paths his children took. There is also a family chart noting the birth and death dates of Fraser, his wife Cattie and their eleven children. Folder includes correspondence from the Avery Institute regarding tuition and scholarship for James Fraser, Jr. (1940s); and tuition receipts from Avery and Immaculate Conception. Photocopies of the petition to prove will for James...
Dates:
1809-1948, 2001, and undated
Fraser Auto Repair Business History and Daybook Book, 1936-1947 and undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-44, 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains an essay on the beginning and ending of Fraser Auto Repair Shop and photocopies of business stationary and ledgers. The Daybook notes the name of the client, the make of the car, what work was done, and if it was paid.
Dates:
1809-1948, 2001, and undated
Robert H. Howard's Family Bible, 1809-1903, and undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-44, 3
Scope and Contents note
Contains photocopied pages from the family bible of Robert H. Howard (1807-1882), the physical copy is held by Dorothy O'Neil and genealogical charts.
Dates:
1809-1948, 2001, and undated
Various Items, 1911-1999, and undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-46, 1
Scope and Contents note
Abstract of Title for 11 Henrietta St., 1913-Contains the abstract of title for 11 Henrietta St. in Charleston, SC. The title has been traced back to 1802, where the owner was Jehu Jones, who supposedly deeded it to Dido Middleton. Cosmo Brockington's Property Papers, 1911 and 1918-Cosmo Eugene Brockington (1879-1950) was married to Emily Doty Brockington (1879 - 1927). They had two children Cosmo Eugene Jr. (1910-1955)...
Dates:
1786-1945, and undated
Marriage Licenses, 1938 and 1941
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-46, 2
Scope and Contents note
Contains the South Carolina marriage licenses for Samuel Jenkins to Pearl Washington (December 21, 1938); and Leroy Goodwin to Anna E. Gathers (May 14, 1941). On both licenses the couples are noted as being of the African race and having United States nationality.
Dates:
1786-1945, and undated
The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertifer, 11/17/1786 and a Poster of the Setting for Porgy and Bess,
1985
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-46, 3
Scope and Contents note
The nation's first daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, began publication on September 21, 1784 by John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole. Many independent newspapers ran before that on a weekly or monthly basis. The newspaper contains articles referring to Charleston's ports and advertisements for enslaved labor in an unknown location. Includes a 1985 poster which features the setting used for the 1970 ...
Dates:
1786-1945, and undated
Newspaper Clippings, 1886-1905
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-47, 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings from The News and Courier dated September 8, 1886, the clippings mostly document African American experiences after the earthquake. The Sunday News dated February 15, 1891, contains an article relating to those in the Morris Street Baptist Church that either supported or opposed J.L. Dart; an article about a Black man named Issac Wilson looking for his wife; and about the death of Louisa Holmes,...
Dates:
1886-1905
Tuskegee to Voorhees by Dr. J.F.B. Coleman, 1922
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-47, 3
Scope and Contents note
This book charts the efforts of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright to found Voorhees College. Wright was from Georgia and studied at Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute. Knowing the importance of education, she moved to Denmark and started the first of several schools in the rural area.
Dates:
1891-1946
The Parvenue, 11/1946
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-47, 2
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...
Dates:
1891-1946
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1929 and 1930
File — Box: 6, Folder: 9000-45, 1
Scope and Contents note
Contains the 1929 mortgage agreement between Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church's Trustees and Pastor and Milton A. Pearlstine, as a Trustee for A.I. Orlansky. The agreement was for the property on the east side of Nassau Street and in the amount of $3,000; there are also receipts to the City of Charleston Treasurer. Additionally, there are court documents relating to ownership of land on the south side of Hampden Court (known as No. 21). In 1918, John Bonaparte, a Trustee at...
Dates:
1929 and 1930