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Photographs for Palmetto Jews

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1066
Collection Overview The black and white photographs in this collection were taken by Bill Aron in October and November of 2000 for the photo essay Palmetto Jews, which appeared in the book A portion of the people: three hundred years of southern Jewish life. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. Also included in this collection are slides and contact sheets of all the images; duplicate slides and photocopies created by the Special Collections Department of the College of Charleston of all...
Dates: 2000

Photographs of an unidentified South Carolina family

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-015
Collection Overview

These twelve sepia tone photographs picture two women, a man, two young girls, and at least one more child who is visible in the background of several images. Subjects (who may be a Jewish family in Camden, South Carolina) are dressed in formal styles of the early 1900s. All photographs were taken in the garden behind a house with subjects in formal poses.

Dates: approximately 1900

Alison Piepmeier zine collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0220
Content Description

The collection contains feminist zines, photocopies of zines, correspondence, and other materials gathered by Alison Piepmeier for academic research and teaching. Also included are related ephemera and several cd discs. The bulk of materials are undated and original folder titles and arrangement by Piepmeier have been retained.

Dates: 1971-2014

Henry Laurens Pinckney warrant

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-015
Collection Overview

This collection contains a single warrant issued by Henry L. Pinckney, Collector of the general tax for the parishes of St. Philip's and St. Michael's, to James S. Shingler, Sheriff of Charleston District, authorizing the arrest of the free black, Maria Louisa Silvanneau, of Charleston, for failure to pay the capitation tax of $2.77. Includes handwritten note of disposition.

Dates: 1849

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's plantations journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-054
Collection Overview Journal entries on pages interleaved in Hoff's Agricultural Almanac (1818). Includes personal and plantation entries by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1818 April 6-May 16, with a few scattered entries in late 1818 and early 1819). The journal records daily activities on Pinckney's plantation. Pinckney not only planted cotton, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, corn, and oats, but relied heavily on fish for food. Many daily entries record the number of drumfish caught and the share of the catch...
Dates: 1818-1819

Pinehurst Tea Plantation records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0203
Abstract

Financial records, letters and correspondence, plats, and printed materials relating to the Pinehurst Tea Plantation founded in Summerville, South Carolina, by Charles U. Shepard for his experiments in tea cultivation, production, and marketing. Materials relate primarily to the sale, purchase, and transfer of the property and properties that would become the Pinehurst Tea Plantation.

Dates: 1855-1993

Pinkussohn family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-059
Collection Overview The collection includes 14 handwritten pages of a letter. The letter, written in pencil on May 31, 1907, was addressed to Mrs. R. Dewald from Mrs. Eliza B. Weinges of St. Matthews. The letter is a recollection of the events surrounding Rebecca Pinkussohn's birth. Also included is a small book of School Certificates from the Memminger and Bennett Schools of Charleston, SC for regular and punctual attendance, perfect lessons, and correct deportment. Of the 155 certificates, 52 were awarded to...
Dates: 1876-1907

Pintus family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-041
Abstract

The collection consists of a photocopied typescript of The Pintus Translations, edited and translated by Michael Lombardi. The typescript is based on transcriptions of postwar letters to Florence Goldsmith written by her friend Lise Pintus, a survivor of the Holocaust from Berlin, Germany, and other materials from the Pintus family.

Dates: 1979

Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates: 1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999

Poem, 1861 (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-156
Collection Overview

This collection consists of a photocopy of a poem entitled "The old house on Thadd St." The title refers to the John Rutledge House, a historical house museum in Charleston, S.C. The author is not mentioned on the photocopy but is identified as Miss Nelson by Alston Deas, compiler of the collection.

Dates: undated

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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 171
 
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correspondence 245
clippings (information artifacts) 183
photographs 127
black-and-white photographs 109
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photocopies 65
color photographs 59
Charleston (S.C.) 54
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 51
financial records 49
certificates 47
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 45
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 39
minutes (administrative records) 39
letters (correspondence) 38
family papers 37
photograph albums 36
black-and-white negatives 35
genealogies (histories) 34
pamphlets 34
printed ephemera 34
programs (documents) 33
diaries 32
videocassettes 29
DVDs 28
digital images 28
South Carolina -- History 25
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 24
artifacts (object genre) 24
typescripts 24
black-and-white slides 23
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 21
compact discs 21
memoirs 21
publications (documents) 21
South Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 20
articles 20
postcards 20
audiocassettes 19
manuscripts for publication 19
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 18
newsletters 18
Photographs 17
genealogical tables 17
ledgers (account books) 17
manuscripts (documents) 17
notes (documents) 17
Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 16
legal documents 16
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 15
administrative records 15
drawings (visual works) 15
obituaries 15
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Correspondence 14
receipts (financial records) 14
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 13
Ephemera 13
business records 13
maps (documents) 13
poems 13
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 12
color slides 12
sketches 12
speeches (documents) 12
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 11
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 11
awards 11
essays 11
lists (document genres) 11
poetry 11
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 10
cabinet photographs 10
diplomas 10
drafts (documents) 10
magazines (periodicals) 10
negatives (photographs) 10
personal correspondence 10
research notes 10
slides (photographs) 10
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
photo CDs 9
plats (maps) 9
posters 9
school yearbooks 9
writings (documents) 9
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 8
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 8
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 8
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina 8
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Language
English 821
Hebrew 36
German 34
Yiddish 23
French 16
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College of Charleston 45
Avery Normal Institute 36
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 29
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 17
College of Charleston. Library 16
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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 13
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 13
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
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
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
DeCosta family 5
Deas family 5
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 5
Harby family 5
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 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
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
Waring, Elizabeth 5
African Methodist Episcopal Church 4
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Brith Sholom Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 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 Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 4
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 4
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 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
Allen University 3
Alterman, Jennet Robinson 3
Altman family 3
American Missionary Association 3
B'nai B'rith 3
Banov family 3
Baskervill Ministries (Pawleys Island, S.C.) 3
Benedict College 3
Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Bragg, Laura M. (Laura Mary), 1881-1978 3
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Brown, Millicent E. 3
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