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Alston Deas collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0013
Abstract

Pamphlets, clippings, memoranda and related items collected by General Alston Deas relating to the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952) and World War II, specifically in Japan and the Pacific. Also includes United States government publications regarding the occupation, materials relating to former General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, and Japanese language materials.

Dates: 1861-1976; Majority of material found within 1945-1950
Found in: Special Collections

Charles Deas collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-147
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to the painter Charles Deas and includes correspondence and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

Dates: 1945, 1987
Found in: Special Collections

Charlotte Alston Deas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-146
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to Charlotte Alston Deas and includes a California teaching certificate, obituaries, diploma, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: approximately 1890-1973
Found in: Special Collections

Frances Milward Pogson Wigfall Deas collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-152
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to Frances Milward Pogson Wigfall Deas and includes correspondence, poems, magazines, and photocopies of photographs.

Dates: 1863-1890, undated
Found in: Special Collections

William Blamyer Deas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-145
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to William Blamyer Deas and includes correspondence and pamphlets as well as a genealogy, photograph, and family history.

Dates: 1869-1965
Found in: Special Collections

DeCosta family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1101
Abstract The DeCosta Family papers, 1870-2010, document the lives of four generations of the DeCosta family, beginning with Benjamin Rhodes and Martha Elizabeth Adams DeCosta. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of various family members and family units within the family lineage. Other materials document family members's educational pursuits and professional and personal lives through diplomas, commencement programs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, obituaries, funeral programs,...
Dates: 1850-2010
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Frank Augustus DeCosta papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1106
Abstract Frank Augustus DeCosta (1910-1972) was an African-American educator, administrator and scholar born in Charleston, South Carolina. In a career that spanned four decades, DeCosta served as a teacher and principal of two high schools, supervisor and chairman of an education department, director of instruction and of student teaching, foreign service statistical officer, and organizing dean of two graduate schools.The collection includes correspondence, research notes, essays,...
Dates: 1847-2000; Majority of material found within 1940-1972
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1084
Abstract Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. (1923-2008) was a renowned African American architect and contractor based in Charleston, South Carolina. While he served as president of the H. A. DeCosta Company, the company worked on the construction and renovations of numerous churches, apartment complexes, schools, and residences, including some of the most architecturally significant houses in Charleston. The DeCosta Company also did much of the renovation and preservation work for Historic Charleston...
Dates: 1851-2009
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Miriam D. DeCosta-Willis papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1185
Abstract Miriam D. DeCosta-Willis (1934-2021) was an African American educator, academic, and activist born in Florence, Alabama. Her papers contain biographical materials, unpublished genealogical research of her ancestors, ephemera from family reunions and printed materials documenting other DeCosta family members, and photographs of DeCosta ancestors including Benjamin Rhodes DeCosta (1867-1911), Anna Theresa Harrenburg DeCosta (1868-1928), Elizabeth DeCosta (1869-1884), Hammond Harrenburg...
Dates: 1850-2014
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Thomas Della Torre papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-021
Collection Overview

The collection contains undated lecture notes for professor della Torre, the funeral announcement of Cherubina Faverio Torriani (1929), and the funeral announcement of Princess Marie von Thurn Taxis (1934).

Dates: approximately 1878-1934
Found in: Special Collections

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correspondence 250
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photographs 133
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Charleston (S.C.) 54
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 45
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Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 39
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South Carolina -- History 25
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Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 24
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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 12
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 12
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 12
color slides 12
sketches 12
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 11
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essays 11
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poetry 11
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
Jewish families -- South Carolina 10
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
cabinet photographs 10
diplomas 10
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magazines (periodicals) 10
negatives (photographs) 10
personal correspondence 10
research notes 10
school yearbooks 10
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African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American churches 9
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 9
Holocaust survivors 9
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 9
books 9
daguerreotypes (photographs) 9
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Avery Normal Institute 48
College of Charleston 46
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 29
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 17
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 16
College of Charleston. Library 16
Avery Research Center 15
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 15
United States. Army 13
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Moses family 9
Cohen family 8
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 8
Levy family 8
Alston family 7
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 7
DeCosta family 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
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 6
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 6
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 6
Moïse family 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
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 5
Deas family 5
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 5
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Harby family 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
Rubens family 5
Solomon family 5
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 5
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 5
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
United States. Congress. House 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
Brown, Millicent E. 4
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Charleston County School District 4
Clyburn, James 4
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 4
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 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
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 4
Karesh, Rosalyn Furchgott 4
Lazar family 4
Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899 4
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Shulman, Nat, 1914-2000 4
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 4
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 4
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Stern, Theodore Sanders 4
Tobias, Thomas J. 4
United States. Navy 4
Wigfall family 4
Addlestone Hebrew Academy (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Aleph Zadik Aleph 3
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