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"Earthquake Sand: A Curiosity" broadside

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-086
Collection Overview

Broadside promoting the sale of vials of colored sand as a souvenir of the earthquake, 31 Aug. 1886, that hit Charleston, S.C.; sold at 15 cents per bottle; sand collected by C.I. Walker, Jr.

Dates: 1886
Found in: Special Collections

East Side Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1199
Abstract The East Side Oral History Project collection contains three oral history interviews conducted by Elizabeth Alston as part of the research process for the Charleston Museum Leaflet Number 30, Between the Tracks: The Heritage of Charleston’s East Side Community. Included in the collection are transcripts of the oral histories conducted with Lorraine Fordham, Frances Mack, and Phillip Simmons. In their interviews, interviewees discuss growing up on the East...
Dates: approximately 1980-1987
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

EastWest Institute (EWI) archive

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0219
Abstract

Assorted photographs, published materials, and video and audio recordings relating to the EastWest Institutes (EWI), an international not-for-profit, non-partisan think tank focusing on international political, economic and security issues founded by John Edwin Mroz and Ira D. Wallach in 1980. Materials document the EastWest Institutes (EWI) programmatic activity throughout its 40-year existence.

Dates: 1980-2020
Found in: Special Collections

Ebenezer AME Church records

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Identifier: 00_00
Abstract

Ebenezer AME Church was established in 1903, having previously been associated with the Presbyterian Board of City Missions. The congregation constructed its current church at 44 Nassau Street in Charleston, South Carolina in 1949. this collection contains information on church officers, class members and leaders, as well as minutes of board meetings.

Dates: 1994-1996
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Ebony City Soccer Club collection

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Identifier: AMN 1157
Abstract The Ebony City Soccer Club collection highlights the victories and defeats of the Lil' Pele's team in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1981-1996. Osei Chandler, founder and president, among several community members were inspired by soccer great, Euston Arantes Do Nascimento, known as "Pele," to physically and mentally inspire inner-city youth. The collection holds newspaper articles, playing rosters, game plays, budgets, event programs, summer camp documents, thank you letters written by...
Dates: 1981-1996
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Basil Ede art prints

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0054
Collection Overview

The collections consists of 55 numbered prints produced by Ede for the Warner Collection of the Gulf States Corporation. The prints were later published in "Wild Birds of America: The Art of Basil Ede" in 1991. Ede produced 58 total prints (55 of which are available in this collection).

Dates: 1976-1992
Found in: Special Collections

Robert D. Edison papers

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Identifier: AMN 1183
Abstract

The papers of Robert D. Edison, educator and former director of Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

Dates: 1987-2001
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Lucille Roper Edwards papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1143
Abstract Lucille Roper Edwards (1924-) worked as an African-American elementary schoolteacher teaching second graders in the Miami, Florida area for forty-seven years. Originally from Cordesville, South Carolina, Roper Edwards attended the Berkeley Training School (Moncks Corner, 1938), and the Avery Normal Institute (1940-1942).The majority of the collection holds Roper Edwards' lesson plans written when she was a second grade teacher at Poinciana Park Elementary School, Dade County,...
Dates: 1942-1994, undated; Majority of material found within 1961-1985
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Ehrich family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1054
Collection Overview

Majority of collection is candid photographs (1907-1950) of the Ehrich family. Most are unidentified. Includes several images (1915) of Pawley's Island, SC, and a 1937 flood in Evansville, IN. Several photographs (1951) of Dr. William S. Ehrich and his brother, Arthur, fishing near Manning, SC. Also includes a speech (handwritten) Ehrich presented to a medical group in Evansville, IN.

Dates: 1907-1960
Found in: Special Collections

Ehrich, Levi, and Weinberg families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1170
Abstract

Papers consist of a scrapbook of William S. Ehrich's World War I letters and assorted photographs of the Ehrich, Levi, and Weinberg families. Also included are photocopies of Ehrich's scrapbook and the family photographs.

Dates: 1917-1946
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
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magazines (periodicals) 10
organization files 10
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African American churches 9
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Avery Normal Institute 48
College of Charleston 47
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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