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Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-135
Collection Overview
This collection consists of items related to the Pogson family from the time of their arrival in the United States until the Civil War. It includes clippings, correspondence, calling cards, genealogies, personal effects, family documents, and other miscellaneous biographical materials. The majority of the documents refer to Milward Pogson, Sarah Pogson Smith, Frances Pogson Smith, and Harry Freeman Young Pogson. Alston Deas, the compiler of this collection, has attached explanatory notes and...
Dates:
1783-1949
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-052
Collection Overview
Collection contains five artifacts: Gertrude Polan's aluminum bread crumb tray and scraper used at the family home in Mullins, South Carolina; Hyman Polan's koshering knife and whetstone (used ca. 1940s-1960s); cotton handkerchief to wrap knife and whetstone.
Dates:
approximately 1940-1960
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1180
Abstract
Assorted papers of the Poliakoff family of Abbeville, South Carolina. Materials include World War II memorabilia, including two diaries kept by Abram Ellis Poliakoff detailing his time aboard the USAHS Jarrett M. Huddleston and materials relating to the D. Poliakoff department store including financial ledgers, invoices, receipts, and store signage.
Dates:
1896-1995
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1140
Abstract
Biographical materials, writings, correspondence, photographs and negatives, newspaper clippings, working files, born digital records, research materials, and publications/printed materials of the Pollitzer and Hoben families. In particular, the collection covers the life and activities of Margaret Pollitzer Hoben, progressive educator, writer, speaker, and former Director of The Walden School in New York City. Also included are the working files of an unpublished book entitled, “Her Past...
Dates:
1894-2013
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0037
Collection Overview
The papers consist of school notes, lectures, lab drawings, essays, exams and papers in education, literature, zoology, psychology, history, botany, fine arts and health. Other items include lectures on child welfare, guidance, and curriculum. Five duplicate cassette tapes of 7.5 hours of interviews with Mabel L. Pollitzer are from the Winthrop College Archives (Rock Hill, S.C.). These interviews are recollections of her work as a teacher, her participation on library and museum boards and...
Dates:
1904-1974
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0215
Abstract
The collection consists of the papers of James Polzois, an artist who lived in Charleston, South Carolina. The papers include photographs, prints, and original artworks of Charleston area architecture and church organs. There are also photographs, correspondence, and military records documenting Polzois’ life. The papers also include Polzois’ writings and research files, with a special focus on his research into Denmark Vesey.
Dates:
1864-2018; Majority of material found within 1952-2018
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-015
Abstract
Negatives, slides, digital images, and other papers of Paula Kornblum Popowski, a Polish-born Jew who survived the Holocaust by passing as a Christian. Materials include pre- and post-war photographs of Popowski and her family and friends, photographs of locations where Popowski lived in Poland and Germany, and her false Polish identification papers. Other materials include postcards and letters sent to Popowski, mostly after the war.
Dates:
circa 1893-2009
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0038
Abstract
Papers consist of memoirs, lectures, essays, correspondence, and other assorted writings of Frederick A. Porcher, Professor of Belles Lettres and History at the College of Charleston from 1848 to 1886. Memoirs concern Porcher's life and career, including his childhood on Cedar Springs Plantation, his education at Yale, his life in politics, his travels abroad, and teaching at the College of Charleston. There are also personal reminiscences on South Carolina history and politics and the...
Dates:
1761-1878
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0087
Collection Overview
A typewritten, annotated transcription (1936) of a volume which consists of a plantation journal (1776-1882) possibly begun by Philip Porcher (1730-1800). The volume, which was copied as a W.P.A. project, also contains additions by other Porcher family members. Philip Porcher's plantation journal consists primarily of financial accounts with numerous individuals; accounts for the sale of rice, corn, indigo, and other items; copies of correspondence related to the accounts; medical...
Dates:
1936
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0221
Content Description
This collection contains theatre programs, articles, reviews, and other ephemera related to the international tour of Blevins Davis and Robert Breen’s revival of “Porgy and Bess.” Also included is a 1977 program of a production of “Porgy and Bess” at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1952-1977
