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Avery photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012

Brown Fellowship Society records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1005
Abstract The Brown Fellowship Society was a benevolent society of free African-American and racially mixed men, affiliated with St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.The collection consists of organizational materials of the Brown Fellowship Society, including a corrected copy of Charles H. Holloway's Rules and Regulations of the Brown Fellowship Society as founded in 1794, but not published until 1844. Minute books detail the...
Dates: 1794-1990

Graves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1081
Abstract The Graves family of Charleston, South Carolina, was an African American family consisting largely of educators and Avery Institute graduates. James R. B. Graves, Jr. (1883-1969), a Pullman porter and union member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, married Rose Laura Winds (1890-1978) in 1915. Together, they raised five children: J. Michael, Pauline, Annette, Robert, and Eugene. J. Michael Graves (1915-1996), a Class of 1932 graduate of the Avery Institute, was an educator and...
Dates: 1884-2004

Jenkins Orphanage papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates: 1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980

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African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
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Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
Orphanages -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Orphans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- History 1
Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
Pullman porters -- Photographs 1
Pullman porters -- United States -- History 1
School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 1
Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
South Carolina -- History 1
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
administrative records 1
clippings (information artifacts) 1
correspondence 1
financial records 1
pamphlets 1
photocopies 1
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Avery Normal Institute 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Avery Research Center 1
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1