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Literary miscellany

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Identifier: Mss 0034-094
Collection Overview Commonplace book and loose papers contain original [?] and copied literary passages. The entries are in several different handwritings and include poems, essays, quotations, letters, and excerpts from sermons. Many poems have a pastoral or religious theme, while other passages concern mourning and consolation, illness, conjugal love, friendship, and moral character and conduct. Authors named include Langhorn, Dr. Watts, Matthew Prior, Tickell, Le Fevre, and Stern. Two poems are dedicated to...
Dates: approximately 1800-1865; Majority of material found within approximately 1800

Charlotte A. Myers collection

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Identifier: Mss 0213
Abstract The collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Charlotte A. Myers’ divorce from literary critic and poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Materials also relate to Caroline Griswold, a writer and Griswold’s daughter from his first marriage, who was raised by Myers. There are also daguerreotype portraits of Myers and Caroline Griswold and a commonplace book assembled by Myers. The papers also cover correspondence between Griswold’s grandchildren and Joy Bayless, author of the...
Dates: 1818-1943

Randolph family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0043
Collection Overview Papers consist of financial and legal documents and correspondence pertaining to Harrison and Louise Wagener Randolph, the Randolph family, and George Andreas Wagener. Financial documents include bank deposit books (1918-1961) of Harrison and Louise W. Randolph, tax returns (1946-1960) for Harrison and Louise W. Randolph and their estates, a ledger (1955-1959) of accounts of Louise W. Randolph and her estate, reports of audits (1956-1959) of the accounts of Louise W. Randolph and the estate...
Dates: 1870-1961

Reesor, Epps, Klein and Swope families papers

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Identifier: Mss 1163
Abstract

Assorted family papers of the Reesor, Epps, Klein and Swope families of Walterboro and Conway, South Carolina. Materials consist of family records, extensive correspondence, clippings, family photographs, and ephemera.

Dates: 1861-2007; Majority of material found within 1907-1985

Anita Moïse Rosefield Rosenberg papers

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Identifier: Mss 1166
Abstract

Papers of Anita Moïse Rosefield Rosenberg, a native of Sumter, South Carolina and a long-time resident of Charleston, South Carolina. In addition to her personal papers, there are others from members of her family, particularly her mother Virginia Moïse Rosefield. The contents include records, clippings, ephemera, correspondence, family photographs and albums, genealogy research, books and publications about southern Jewish history, and a few family artifacts.

Dates: 1837-2018; Majority of material found within 1960-2018

Judith Shanks and Henry A. Alexander research files

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Identifier: Mss 1153
Abstract Research files of Judith Alexander Weil Shanks, including primary sources created or compiled by her uncle Henry A. Alexander, articles, copies of census records, family trees, research notes, and photographs. Materials relate primarily to Rebecca I. Moses and several of her relations in the Solomons, Joseph, and Alexander families, particularly Eleanor Solomons, Charlotte Joseph, and Rebecca E. Alexander. Also includes drafts of Old Family Things: An Affectionate...
Dates: 1806-2009; Majority of material found within 1998-2009

St. Andrew's Society of Charleston records

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Identifier: Mss 0144
Abstract

This collection includes administrative, financial, and membership records, records of charitable assistance, and other materials of the St. Andrew's Society of Charleston. Records document the social and benevolent activities of the St. Andrew's Society between the years 1729 to 2001.

Dates: 1729-2001

Temple Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) records

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Identifier: Mss 1083
Abstract

Records of Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Sumter, South Carolina. Materials document the administrative, financial, social, educational, charitable, and spiritual activities of the congregation and its members. Also included are materials documenting prominent Jewish individuals and families of Sumter, including Penina Moïse and the Moses family.

Dates: 1789-2012; Majority of material found within 1920-1996

West Point Rice Mill Company records

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Identifier: Mss 0051
Abstract Collection consists of the records of the West Point Rice Mill Company, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1885 to 1925. Records include correspondence and legal documents concerning transfers of stock related to estates and to the decrease of capital stock, a letterpress copybook containing letters primarily concerning the accounts of individuals and corporations, daybooks, ledgers, and cashbooks. Also included are checks, check stubs, canceled checks for dividends and liquidation, and...
Dates: 1885-1925

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

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Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

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Abeles, Sigmund, 1934- 1
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Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Aleph Zadik Aleph. Charleston Chapter 1
Alexander, Henry A. (Henry Aaron), 1874-1967 1
Alexander, Rebecca Ella Solomons, 1854-1938 1
Alexander, Saul, 1884-1952 1
Altman family 1
Altman, Dora, 1896-1999 1
Avery Normal Institute 1
Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Banov (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Banov family 1
Baruch family 1
Baruch, Arline Lennox, 1893-1995 1
Baruch, Hartwig Nathaniel, Jr., 1918-1997 1
Baruch, Hartwig Nathaniel, Sr., 1868-1953 1
Bayless, Joy 1
Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Beth Israel Congregation (Florence, S.C.) 1
Bnei Zion (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Book Basement (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown family 1
Butwin, Frances 1
Butwin, Joseph (Joseph Mazo), 1943- 1
Butwin, Julius, -1945 1
Charleston Jewish Social Services (S.C.) 1
Charleston Zionist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Cohen family 1
Columbia University 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.) 1
Dale Farms Corporation (Beaufort, S.C.) 1
Daughters of the American Revolution 1
De La Motta family 1
De Lyon family 1
Drayton, Carolus 1
Drayton, Charles Henry, 1847-1915 1
Drayton, Charles, 1785-1844 1
Drayton, Charles, 1814-1852 1
Drayton, Charlotta D., 1884-1969 1
Drayton, James Shoolbred, 1820-1867 1
Drayton, John, 1831-1912 1
Drayton, John, active 1777 1
Drayton, Mary Middleton Shoolbred, 1794-1855 1
Drayton, Thomas Henry Middleton, 1828-1867 1
Drayton, William Henry, 1742-1779 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Elfe family 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Epps (Family : Conway, S.C.) 1
Epps family 1
Fallon family 1
Fontaine, William A. (William Alvin), 1920-2005 1
Fontaine-Hancock Interiors 1
Freemasons 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Goldman, Joseph 1
Grimké family 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Grimké, Frederick, 1791-1863 1
Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819 1
Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Griswold, M. Caroline 1
Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 1
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Charleston Chapter 1
Hancock (Family : Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019) 1
Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019 1
Harleston family 1
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
Harleston, Elise F. (Elise Forrest) 1
Hart family 1
Hatch, Frank S. 1
Hebrew Benevolent Association (Florence, S.C.) 1
Hebrew Orphan Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hepler, Joseph, 1871-1926 1
Hirsch (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hirsch family 1
Hirsch, Isaac Willard, 1844-1925 1
Hirsch, Willard Newman, 1905-1982 1
Hirschfeld family 1
Horowitz, Menahem Mendel, -1923 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. Samuel D. Turtletaub Post 237 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. Samuel D. Turtletaub Post 237 (Charleston, S.C.). Ladies Auxiliary 1
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