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Collis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1148
Abstract The family papers of the Collis family of Charleston and Kingstree, South Carolina, reflect the experience of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to South Carolina. Materials include migration, marriage, education, and military documents; photographs; clippings; ephemera; and correspondence. Meyer Collis immigrated from Bialystok, Poland, to the United States sometime in the early 20th century; his future wife Lena Schiawitz followed in 1905. They settled in Charleston, where...
Dates: approximately 1900-2008; Majority of material found within 1906-1967
Found in: Special Collections

Lady Lafayette Hotel souvenir plate

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1173
Abstract

Souvenir plate for the Lady Lafayette Hotel located in Walterboro, South Carolina.

Dates: approximately 1938
Found in: Special Collections

Pearlstine Distributors Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1114
Abstract

Business records, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and artifacts relating to the history and operation of Pearlstine Distributors Inc. (est. 1972), a Charleston-based distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, and its parent company, I. M. Pearlstine & Sons, founded by Isaac Moses Pearlstine in 1885.

Dates: 1899-2012
Found in: Special Collections

Price family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-079
Abstract

Photographs, eulogies, and newspaper clippings of the Price family of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Materials mostly relate to the family's clothing store, Prices' Store for Men. Also included is a brief history of the founders of Temple B'nai Israel in Spartanburg.

Dates: 1903-2003
Found in: Special Collections

Inez Richardson papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1161
Abstract Inez A. Richardson, born in 1911, was the first licensed Black female barber in South Carolina. This collection concentrates primarily on Inez Richardson, however it also includes documents pertaining to the rest of the Richardson family. The collection documents Richardson’s involvement in the Rose of Sharon Tent, Southern District No. 4, from 1952 to 1984. The Rose of Sharon Tent was one of the Tents of the United Order of Tents, which is the only Christian Black women’s secret society....
Dates: 1951-1990
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Bruce I. Siegal papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1112
Abstract

Contains genealogical and business records of Bruce I. Siegal, president of Supreme Lighting Corporation in Mullins, S.C. Materials include a manuscript of genealogical information and transcribed family interviews titled "Six Generations in Search of a Deli," photograph reproductions, correspondence regarding genealogical research, two Marvel Manufacturing Company stock ledgers, and two clippings scrapbooks pertaining to the Siegal family lighting businesses.

Dates: 1952-2008
Found in: Special Collections

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Collis, Moses, 1918-1993 1
Congregation B'nai Israel (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
I.M. Pearlstine & Sons (S.C.) 1
Lady Lafayette Hotel (Walterboro, S.C.) 1
Marvel Lamp Company 1
Marvel Manufacturing Company 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Pearlstine Distributors Inc. 1
Pearlstine, Isaac M. 1
Pearlstine, Susan 1
Price (Family : Spartanburg, S.C.) 1
Price family 1
Price, Harry 1
Prices' Store for Men (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1
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Richardson, Inez 1
Richardson, Roscoe 1
Siegal, Bruce I. (Bruce Irving), 1941- 1
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Siegel, Sam 1
Supreme Lighting Corporation 1
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