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Jenkins Orphanage papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates: 1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

"Jew Boy" football jersey

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Identifier: Mss 1174
Abstract

White football jersey with blue lettering of "Jew Boy" on front and "J.B. 1"on the reverse. Given to Andrew Cohen, manager of the St. Johns High School football team, by his team members at an end of season banquet.

Dates: 1974
Found in: Special Collections

Jewish business card collection

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Identifier: Mss 1034-095
Abstract

Collection consists of the business cards of Southern businessmen, Oscar Sokol, and Marc Howard Wilson, and Southern rabbis, Yossi J. Liebowitz D.D., and Arnold Mark Belzer.

Dates: circa 1950s-2000s
Found in: Special Collections

Jewish Community Center papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1063
Collection Overview The administrative files mostly document planning for, financing, and building the new Jewish Community Center in suburban Charleston; with blueprints, architects Simons, Lapham, Mitchell and Small correspondence and a small amount of history. The largest series contains photographs documenting Jewish life and Jewish Community Center activities, ca. 1945 to 1998. Original order, when possible, was kept, there being topical and biographical files (including images, 1980s-1990s, of Russian...
Dates: 1920-1998
Found in: Special Collections

Jewish War Veterans Ladies Auxiliary Chapter 237 records

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Identifier: Mss 1167
Abstract

Records of the Samuel D. Turteltaub Ladies Auxiliary Number 237 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America of Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1964-2003
Found in: Special Collections

J.F.R. papers

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Identifier: Mss 0034-030
Collection Overview Papers (loose pages, probably originally one gathering) include a handwritten "Journal" [diary], exercises, and lecture notes written by J.F.R. The diary commences at New Orleans, Louisiana, and includes entries about classes, students, and faculty at the medical department of the University of Louisiana. In May 1853 the author became the medical officer on the steamer Falcon and traveled to Panama, New Granada, Havana (includes descriptions of the houses and customs), and New York (with a...
Dates: 1849-1855
Found in: Special Collections

J.L. Sheppard Company circular

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Identifier: Mss 0034-123
Collection Overview

An undated circular from the J.L. Sheppard company advertising the advantages of its new 100 lb. net drum package, used for Carolina rice. According to the circular, the J.L. Sheppard Company was established in 1870 and sold rice in "drums, barrels, sacks, and pockets of all kinds and qualities at bottom prices."

Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections

John Birch Society records

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Identifier: Mss 0034-104
Collection Overview

The collection consists of three pamphlets and two newsletters published by or for the John Birch Society. The pamphlets are each dated between 1964 and 1965. The documents highlight the society's belief in anti-communism. One pamphlet discusses a meeting of the John Birch Society in Charleston, S.C., on January 21, 1965.

Dates: 1964-1965
Found in: Special Collections

John Fraser & Co. receipt

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Identifier: Mss 0034-115
Collection Overview

The receipt is for a transaction in which Thomas Barksdale sold Sea Island cotton to Buchanan, Wood & Co. The receipt records the expenses that John Fraser & Co. charged for storing and weighing the cotton. It was issued on June 4, 1821.

Dates: 1821
Found in: Special Collections

John's Island-Wadmalaw Island Citizens' Council records, 1955-1956 (photocopies)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-009
Collection Overview The collection consists of photocopies of materials from the John's Island-Wadmalaw Island Citizens' Council. It includes minutes from council meetings, correspondence with S. Emory Rogers, minutes from the organization's meetings, and a membership list of state officers and local members. Rogers was the Executive Secretary of the Association of Citizens' Councils of South Carolina. The collection also includes several publications from the Grass Roots League, Inc. The Grass Roots League...
Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections

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correspondence 248
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Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 39
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South Carolina -- History 25
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Charleston (S.C.) -- History 21
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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 12
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sketches 12
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 11
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 11
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 11
essays 11
lists (document genres) 11
poetry 11
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
cabinet photographs 10
diplomas 10
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negatives (photographs) 10
personal correspondence 10
research notes 10
school yearbooks 10
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African American churches 9
Holocaust survivors 9
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 9
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 9
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
books 9
daguerreotypes (photographs) 9
journals (accounts) 9
membership lists 9
photo CDs 9
plats (maps) 9
posters 9
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African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 8
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College of Charleston 46
Avery Normal Institute 44
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 29
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 17
College of Charleston. Library 16
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 14
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 14
United States. Army 13
Avery Research Center 12
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
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
DeCosta family 6
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 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
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
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 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
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
Waring, Elizabeth 5
Allen University 4
American Missionary Association 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
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 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
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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 4
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Stern, Theodore Sanders 4
Tobias, Thomas J. 4
United States. Navy 4
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 4
Wigfall family 4
Addlestone Hebrew Academy (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Aleph Zadik Aleph 3
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 3
Alterman, Jennet Robinson 3
Altman family 3
Amistad Research Center 3
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