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Bank of the United States stock indentures

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-085
Collection Overview

Consists of stock indentures issued in Charleston, South Carolina, to Isaac Ball, James Calder, Louis Danjou, John C. Faber, Marie Huguet, William Jenner, Basil Lanneau, Nathan Nathans, William Payne, Burridge Purvis, William Purvis, George Rose, J.E.A. Steinmetz, Williams Thayer, Miss A.E. Van Rhyn, and James Hamilton (of Georgia).

Dates: 1793-1818

Charleston Chamber of Commerce records

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Identifier: Mss 0034-010
Collection Overview Records (1823-1923) include rules, awards, proposed constitution and by-laws, an annual report, and membership lists. A typescript copy of “Rules Charleston Chamber of Commerce Adopted to March 1858,” transcribed from the original by Agnes P. Lyons as part of a 1935-1936 W.P.A. project, contains a list of names of individual members whose signatures are on the document. A typescript copy of “Awards” transcribed by Mabel Whiting and Julia W. Reynolds during a 1935-1936 W.P.A. project contains...
Dates: 1823-1936

"Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike" rough draft (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-102
Collection Overview The paper is a typed rough draft with hand written corrections. It describes the Hospital workers' strike at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. The author is not identified, but a handwritten note reveals that the document was written in 1982. The paper discusses the role played by Mary Moultrie, the leader of the strike, and William McCord, the college president, in the strike. The strike was a protest by African-American, predominantly female, hospital workers for better...
Dates: 1982

German Friendly Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0019
Abstract

The German Friendly Society was a social and benevolent organization founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1766. This collection contains typewritten transcriptions of their meeting minutes (1766-1858) compiled during a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) project from 1935-1940.

Dates: 1766-1940

Grimke family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0176
Abstract Materials include Revolutionary War papers of John Paul Grimke and his son John Faucheraud Grimke, with materials re the latter as intendant (mayor) of Charleston. Papers of his son Thomas Smith Grimke document temperance, politics and education and contain an autograph collection. With papers of Thomas's siblings Frederick Grimke, abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld and others. With materials of two more following generations, and genealogical materials on Grimke,...
Dates: 1678-1977, circa 1990s

Iseman family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1073
Collection Overview

This collection contains information pertaining to the Iseman family. The first box includes letters, genealogical research, photocopies, photographs, and correspondence related to the Iseman family. The second box contains biographical files of Iseman family members, including family genealogy notes.

Dates: 1961-1996

Vincent P. Lannie collection

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Identifier: Mss 0077
Abstract Materials collected by Vincent P. Lannie relate to writer Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, Allston and Vanderhost family members and their enslaved people, Confederate imprints, a broadside advertisement for a rice planting device, Civil War ships USS Monitor and Keokuk, a Revolutionary era parole, and a letter of John Rutledge. Also includes letters to George N. Shuster, former president of Hunter College and editor of...
Dates: 1733-1974

Nathaniel Russell Middleton papers

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Identifier: Mss 0032
Collection Overview Nathaniel Russell Middleton papers consist of his writings, his correspondence with his wife and children, and miscellaneous items. Middleton's writings consist of poems, essays, and addresses about Christianity, the fine arts, philosophical materialism, temperance, secession, fame, the U.S. Constitution, and other subjects, many of which were probably delivered to the students of the College of Charleston during his tenure there as professor and president. Correspondence includes letters...
Dates: 1823-1881

James Warley Miles papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0008
Collection Overview Papers consist of correspondence, transcripts of Miles' sermons and addresses, notes for a sermon, clippings, and biographical materials. Letters and notes include a letter (1852 March 5) to Miles from Henry D. Lesesne asking Miles to preach at Calvary Church, a note (1870 May 26) from C.G. Poyas regarding the transmission of a gift volume to Miles, and a typescript copy of a letter (1857 April 1) from Miles to Mr. [Robert Newman?] Gourdin concerning the number of volumes in the College of...
Dates: 1852-1970; Majority of material found within 1852-1875

Research on education in Charleston, S.C.

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0014
Collection Overview

Typescript annotated listing and abstracts of articles (1767-1886) from South Carolina periodicals concerning various aspects of education in Charleston (S.C.). Periodicals used include the South Carolina Gazette, the Southern Patriot, the Charleston Courier, the Columbian Herald, and the News and Courier. These materials may have been part of the research for J.H. Easterby's A History of the College of Charleston (1935).

Dates: approximately 1930

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Doar, Maria Middleton, 1844-1906 1
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Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
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Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
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Iseman, Joseph 1
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Kinard, Alph E. 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Lesesne, Henry Deas, 1810-1886 1
Little, Samuel, active 1778 1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
McCord, William M. (William Mellen), 1907-1996 1
Medical College of South Carolina (1952-1969) 1
Medical University of South Carolina 1
Middleton family 1
Middleton, Anna Elizabeth de Wolf 1
Middleton, N. Russell (Nathaniel Russell), 1810-1890 1
Miles, James Warley, 1818-1875 1
Monitor (Ironclad) 1
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 1
Newman, William, active 1778 1
Poyas, Catharine Gendron, 1813-1882 1
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921 1
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013 1
Robert, Peter, active 1781 1
Robert, Thomas, active 1776-1792 1
Rutledge, John, 1739-1800 1
Shuster, George N. (George Nauman), 1894-1977 1
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 1
South Carolina Statewide Historical Project 1
South Carolina. Militia. Washington Light Infantry Company 1
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United States (Title of work: Constitution.) 1
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Washington Light Infantry (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
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