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Collection
Identifier: AMN 1023
Abstract
Mamie Elizabeth Garvin Fields (1888-1987) was an African-American educator, civic and religious activist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Fields was an influential leader in the South Carolina African-American women's club movement. A culmination of Fields' life is detailed in her memoir, Lemon Swamp and Other Places, co-written with her granddaughter, Karen Fields.The majority of the collection details Fields' involvement with the National...
Dates:
1894-1987; Majority of material found within 1945-1985
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-141
Collection Overview
This collection includes two copies of the Finley family coat of arms and a handwritten letter providing the history of the crest and the Finley family.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-142
Collection Overview
This collection consists of items related to the genealogy of the Finley family. It includes genealogies, correspondence, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-144
Collection Overview
This collection consists of items related to the Finley family and includes
genealogies, correspondence, family histories, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.
Dates:
1735-1886
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1022
Abstract
George Liele, a slave preacher who ministered along the Savannah River, formed the First African Baptist congregation sometime in the early 1770s. During the Revolutionary War, Liele left the United States and appointed Andrew Bryan, also a slave, to lead the church. Bryan built the first church in 1795. In 1833 a division split the congregation into the Bryant Church and the First African Baptist. The present structure of the First African Baptist Church at Franklin Square was erected in...
Dates:
1871-1981
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-108
Collection Overview
This collection consists of one black and white photograph of Anne Sinkler Fishburne and a typed letter to her cousin Jack dated January 19, 1949. The letter discusses the pleasant comments that she has received about her book "Belvidere: a plantation memory", the mild winter and
her reading of Mary Boykin Chesnut's "A diary from Dixie". Both the photograph and the letter were found inside the book "Belvidere : a plantation memory".
Dates:
1949
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0072
Collection Overview
Front cover inscribed "F.R. Fisher. Notes." Frank R. Fisher's "notes" contain observations, drawings, and photographs relating to scientific and technological studies, particularly astronomical observations made while Fisher was a resident in Charleston, S.C. during the 1880s.; Fisher records important discoveries and observations made by various scientists earlier in the century. Fisher's astronomical observations begin in Charleston in 1882 with the sighting of a comet. He also records his...
Dates:
1882-1902
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-148
Collection Overview
This collection consists of items related to the Flagg family and includes clippings, photographs, portraits, and other miscellaneous biographical and genealogical materials.
Dates:
1889, undated
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1133
Abstract
Henry Harleston Fleming (1916-2007), born to Katherine Harleston and Maithlun N. Fleming, in St. Augustine, Florida, was a African-American composer, arranger, professor and director of the choirs at Burke High School, Charleston and South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. A prolific pianist, "Harl Fleming," was an accompanist and director for several regional music ensembles. Fleming and his wife, Marie Martin Fleming lived in the Charleston, South Carolina area...
Dates:
1877-2007; Majority of material found within 1930-2000
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1067
Abstract
Minute book, financial records, cemetery records, publications, and assorted papers of the Florence Hebrew Benevolent Association, a Jewish fraternal organization and the genesis of the Beth Israel Congregation, formed in 1887 in Florence, South Carolina.
Dates:
1887-1991
