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Collection
Identifier: AMN 1149
Abstract
Collection contains documents based on the traveling exhibition (orginially entitled, Transcendent Traditions: Baskets of Two Continents (2008-2010) which traced "the parallel histories of coiled baskets in Africa and American staring from the domestication of rice in Africa two centuries ago, through the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Carolina rice plantation, to the present. "The exhibition placed Lowcountry basketry in a larger context,...
Dates:
1936-2017, and undated ; Majority of material found within 1998 - 2015
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1081
Abstract
The Graves family of Charleston, South Carolina, was an African American family consisting largely of educators and Avery Institute graduates. James R. B. Graves, Jr. (1883-1969), a Pullman porter and union member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, married Rose Laura Winds (1890-1978) in 1915. Together, they raised five children: J. Michael, Pauline, Annette, Robert, and Eugene. J. Michael Graves (1915-1996), a Class of 1932 graduate of the Avery Institute, was an educator and...
Dates:
1884-2004
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1079
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, articles, program and other miscellaneous materials from the career of Charleston's African American Jewish Police Chief Reuben Greenberg, 1990-1997. Arranged by material, this collection includes numerous articles and publications that detail Greenberg's professional philosophy, crime fighting methods, and surrounding controversies as well as autobiographical details. Also included are awards and programs for events honoring Greenberg and letters,...
Dates:
1990-1997
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-013
Abstract
Photographs, a memoir, and other papers of Samuel Greene, a native of Sławatycze, Poland. Materials include photographs of Greene and his wife, Regina Kawer Greene, before, during, and after World War II.
Dates:
1927-2007
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1171
Abstract
Blue and yellow three quarter sleeve shirt with "Greenville A.Z.A." in white letters on front from the 1930s-1940s.
Dates:
approximately 1930s-1940s
Collection
Identifier: AMN-1171
Abstract
This collection contains transcripts of speeches, programs and other memorabilia from Avery Normal Institute and Baptist Hill High School.
Dates:
1947-1984
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0071
Collection Overview
Laura Griffin (1960-1996) was killed by a hit and run driver while she was jogging in 1996. The State Legislature quickly increased the penalties for hit and run drivers, and the Governor awarded the Order of the Palmetto for Griffin's work against substance abuse. The University of South Carolina awarded a Ph.D. for Griffin's nearly completed doctoral work in psychology. The College of Charleston and USC established scholarship funds in Griffin's honor. CHP (College and Community Health...
Dates:
1996-1997
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0176
Abstract
Materials include Revolutionary War papers of John Paul Grimke and his son John Faucheraud Grimke, with materials re the latter as intendant (mayor) of Charleston. Papers of his son Thomas Smith Grimke document temperance, politics and education and contain an autograph collection. With papers of Thomas's siblings Frederick Grimke, abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld and others. With materials of two more following generations, and genealogical materials on Grimke,...
Dates:
1678-1977, circa 1990s
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1095
Abstract
Professional correspondence, autograph collection, certificates, and other papers of Mayer I. Gruber, rabbi and scholar. Materials pertain to Gruber's academic positions, speaking engagements, and publications on biblical lexicography, the Book of Job, women in the biblical world, and medieval Jewish biblical commentaries.
Dates:
1810, 1954-2011
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-001
Collection Overview
The collection consists of two printed broadsides which date from the period 1869 to 1880. One broadside is an advertisement for Aimar's "Neurotic Oil", an analgesic tonic, and "Pearl Cement". The second broadside is an advertisement for "The Physician's Rheumatic and Neuralgia Remedy". G. W. Aimar compounded and bottled his own remedies.
Dates:
approximately 1869-approximately 1880
