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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

Colman and Blank families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1111
Abstract

The collection consists of professional and personal correspondence, professional materials, photograph albums and photographs, and other assorted papers of the Colman and Blank families of Charleston, South Carolina. Materials relate to Beverly Isabel Colman, a former managing editor for Schocken Books, and her great-great grandmother Rosa Simmons Blank, Rosa's son, Isadore Blank, and Isadore's son, Edwin J. Blank.

Dates: 1845-1993
Found in: Special Collections

Comments on lectures given by Orestes A. Brownson

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Identifier: Mss 0034-007
Collection Overview

The collection consists of five newspaper clippings of letters to the editor of the Charleston Standard. The letters were written in 1856 and were in response to a series of lectures by Orestes Augustus Brownson. They attack the "Catholicity" of Brownson's theology. Each is signed "Protestantism."

Dates: 1856
Found in: Special Collections

The Congregation "Beth Elohim" of Charleston, S.C. pamphlet

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Identifier: Mss 1034-075
Abstract

A typescript and photocopy of Nathaniel Levin's history of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1750 to 1883. The pamphlet was published in the 1883 Year Book of the City of Charleston.

Dates: 1883
Found in: Special Collections

Frank Connor photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0119
Collection Overview This collection includes 70 black and white photographs and postcards of actors and singers collected by Frank Connor, an actor who appeared with many of the people shown in this collection. The majority of the photographs are signed studio portraits, with the subjects often appearing in theatrical costume. Also included is a copy of Inventory of the Frank Connor photographic collection of actors and singers of the early 20th century, which contains biographical information about the people...
Dates: 1900s-1940s
Found in: Special Collections

Alvena M. Cooke papers

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Identifier: AMN 1054
Abstract Alvena Margaret Cooke was born in Dorchester County on June 15, 1913, to Harry Michael Cooke and Mary Richardson Cooke. Cooke received her nursing training at Cannon Street Hospital and Training School in Charleston under the direction of Dr. Seabrook and Mrs. Mabel Oliver. She graduated in 1934 and worked primarily as a public health nurse. She retired from nursing in 1978. The collection documents Cooke's personal relationships and career as a nurse in Charleston county via correspondence,...
Dates: 1924-1980, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

John Cordes estate book, 1764-1798 (typescript copy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-017
Collection Overview Typescript copy of the John Cordes estate book (1764-1798) transcribed during a 1935-1937 W.P.A. project. Inventory and appraisal (1764) of the John Cordes estate contains lists of slaves (names and appraised values), dishes, furniture, linens, animals, rice, indigo, and other items. The volume also includes slaves (with names and valuations) taken by Catharine Cordes of Charleston (S.C.), and by Theodore Gaillard. Memorandums signed by the estate's executor Samuel Cordes are with other...
Dates: 1937
Found in: Special Collections

Ruby Pendergrass Cornwell papers

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Identifier: AMN 1039
Abstract Ruby P. Cornwell, a native of Foreston, SC, earned a B.A. from Talladega in 1925 and taught English for many years. In Charleston she was active in Plymouth Congregational Church and served on the boards of several organizations, including the Charleston Branch of the NAACP. Through her work with the NAACP she developed close ties to U.S. District Judge Julius Waites Waring and his wife, Elizabeth. Judge Waring presided over several noted civil rights cases-ruling for integration and equal...
Dates: 1944-2003; 1944-1974; Majority of material found within 1950-1969
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

H. Morris Cox research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence

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Identifier: Mss 0127
Collection Overview This collection consists of 5x8 index cards which were used for research in: Cox, Headley Morris, Jr., Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930, Thesis (Ph.d.), University of Pennsylvania, 1958. The information included is about the literary South, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Renaissance, and the poems of W. Herbey Allen and DuBose Heyward. Other writers who contributed to the Charleston Renaissance are noted, along with a list of prizewinners in the contests...
Dates: 1920-1930
Found in: Special Collections

Headley Morris Cox, Jr., research notes on South Carolina localisms

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Identifier: Mss 0128
Collection Overview

This collection consists of notes on South Carolina localisms that Headley Morris Cox, Jr. collected over the years. The notes are from various South Carolina sources, many of whom were students of Cox at Clemson University. In the first folder, words are arranged in alphabetical order. The second folder contains expressions, words, beliefs, home remedies, superstitions, and pronunciations of various words.

Dates: approximately 1950-approximately 1959
Found in: Special Collections

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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 13
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
cabinet photographs 10
diplomas 10
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magazines (periodicals) 10
organization files 10
personal correspondence 10
slides (photographs) 10
African American churches 9
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
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Holocaust survivors 9
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 9
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Avery Normal Institute 48
College of Charleston 48
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 29
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 17
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 17
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 17
Avery Research Center 16
College of Charleston. Library 16
United States. Army 13
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Moses family 9
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 8
Cohen family 8
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 8
Levy family 8
Alston family 7
DeCosta family 7
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 7
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 7
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 7
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 6
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 6
Charleston Naval Shipyard 6
Dachau (Concentration camp) 6
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 6
Moïse family 6
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 6
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.) 6
Voorhees College 6
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 6
Weinberg family 6
African Methodist Episcopal Church 5
Aleph Zadik Aleph. Charleston Chapter 5
Allen University 5
Alliance for Full Acceptance 5
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 5
Bachman, John, 1790-1874 5
Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Blamyer family 5
Blamyre family 5
Breibart, Solomon 5
Brown family 5
Brown, Millicent E. 5
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 5
Deas family 5
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 5
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 5
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Harby family 5
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 5
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 5
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Medical University of South Carolina 5
Moïse, Penina 5
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 5
Raisin, Rachel M. 5
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 5
Rubens family 5
Solomon family 5
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 5
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
United States. Navy 5
Waring, Elizabeth 5
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 5
American Missionary Association 4
Benedict College 4
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Brith Sholom Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Carawan, Guy 4
Charleston County School District 4
Clyburn, James 4
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 4
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 4
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 4
Edison, Robert 4
Finley family 4
Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 4
Holmes, F. S. (Francis Simmons), 1815-1882 4
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Howard University 4
Hunt, Eugene C. 4
Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina 4
Karesh, Rosalyn Furchgott 4
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 4
Lazar family 4
Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899 4
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 4
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 4
Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 4
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Pogson family 4
Potts family 4
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 4
Rosenberg, Anita Moïse Rosefield 4
Rosengarten, Dale, 1948- 4
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