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Goose-market in Cracow
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-009
Collection Overview
Depicts crowds of people at the goose-market in Cracow, Poland, ca. 1860s. Hasidic Jew with payos and streimel in foreground is bending over to pick up a goose (from a group of geese); man (possibly a vendor) with long white beard leans against a wagon and smokes a pipe. Two children (one barefoot) walk in the right foreground. Several women in background carry baskets; man dressed in suit and top hat also visible. Streets appear to be laden with straw; two-story building in background has...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Albert Gosschalk papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-009
Abstract
Photographs, silver objects, and other papers of Albert Gosschalk, a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II from the Netherlands. Materials relate to the families of Gosschalk and his wife, Theodora "Doris" van Blankenstein Gosschalk and their lives before, during, and after World War II.
Dates:
1835-2008
Found in:
Special Collections
Julia Alston Gourdine papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1130
Abstract
Julia Waites Alston Gourdine (1923-2009), an African-American elementary school educator who worked in the Charleston County School District for thirty-five years. Alston Gourdine was also an integral Senior Trustee Board member of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Charleston, South Carolina. She married Robert H. Gourdine, Jr. in 1944, and they had one son, Robert H. Gourdine, III.The collection contains documents and photographs relating to Gourdine's...
Dates:
1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1950-1996
David Grabin papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-008
Abstract
Images, memoir, and newspaper clippings of David Grabin, a Holocaust survivor imprisoned at several camps during World War II. Images include negatives, slides, photocopies, and digital images of family photographs Grabin carried throughout the war. Grabin's memoir details his experience as he was separated from his family and moved from camp to camp, ending at Theresienstadt.
Dates:
1930-1999
Found in:
Special Collections
Clarence Graeser letter
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-026
Collection Overview
The letter from Clarence Graeser to "D.O.M." mentions a hurricane that occurred in 1940 and briefly mentions the College of Charleston. Graeser was a graduate of the College of Charleston, and a professor of modern languages at the college during the 1930s.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Grand Purim Masquerade Ball Invitation
Item
Identifier: Mss 1034-107
Abstract
The collection consists of an invitation to a grand Purim masquerade ball at the Academy of Music on March 24, 1902. The ball was sponsored by the Hebrew Benevolent Society of Orangeburg, South Carolina, and printed on the invitation is a photograph of winners from the previous year's costume contest, among them Julia Peterkin, who, in 1929, won a Pulitzer Prize for literature. The invitation also contains a list of the ball's patronesses, arrangement committee, associate reception...
Dates:
1902
Found in:
Special Collections
Henry Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1011
Abstract
Henry Lacy Grant (1925-1990) was born in North Augusta, Georgia to Henry L. Grant and Lillie Lacy Grant. An ordained Episcopal priest, Father Grant served the East Side community of Charleston, South Carolina for over twenty years as director of St. John's Mission Center and priest of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Father Grant is buried at Live Oak Memorial Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina.
The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, compilations, and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1964-1990
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art collection
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:
1936-2018, and undated ; Majority of material found within 1998 - 2015
Graves family papers
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
Colonel Reuben Greenberg collection
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