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Siegmund Wolfsohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-018
Abstract

Photographs, citizenship papers, immigration and school records, and other papers of Siegmund Wolfsohn, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who escaped Austria as part of the Kindertransport in 1939 and eventually settled in the United States.

Dates: 1918-2005
Found in: Special Collections

Wolper family photographs and medal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-003
Collection Overview The collections includes two photographs. First is an 8X10 black and white print (not original) of the Jacob Wolper Family (made after the family was reunited in Charleston, 1915). Pictured are Cecile Wolper Lazarus (1903-1975), Pauline Wolper Lynch (1898-1950), Cecile Barr Wolper (1887-1965), Louis Edwin Wolper (1910-1987), Jacob Wolper (1876-1940) and Max Wolper (1900-1985). Second photograph is an 8X10 group image (black and white) of the South Carolina-Georgia Masada Conclave at Jekyll...
Dates: 1915-1949
Found in: Special Collections

Lois and Raphael Wolpert photographs of Beth Israel Congregation

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-089
Abstract

This collection consists of ten photographs taken by Lois and Raphael Wolpert documenting various events and people associated with Beth Israel Congregation in Florence, South Carolina.

Dates: 1956-1974
Found in: Special Collections

Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1037
Abstract The Woman's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina (WBEMC) collection consist mostly of published annual session minutes (many photocopied), event programs, organizational and committee papers documenting the women and youth auxiliaries of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina (BEMC) from 1888 to 2007. Included are materials from other local, state and national organizations within the Baptist community, such as meeting minutes, event...
Dates: 1867-2007, undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Peter H. Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1131
Abstract Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), is a American historian who authored, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion." Wood was a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008, where he was named Professor Emertius of History. Wood wrote the original version of "Black Majority" as his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, which was published in 1974.The...
Dates: 1964-1974; Majority of material found within 1973-1974
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

World War I and World War II poster collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0063
Collection Overview The World War I and II Poster Collection consists of 101 poster, some of which are duplicates, and a few non-poster items which are an editorial page, a mounted photograph, and a leaflet. The World War I posters include war bond posters, posters from various civic groups advertising the United War Work Campaign, and posters from the Committee on Public Information, the Department of Labor, and the United States Food Administration. There are also a few British produced, American...
Dates: 1917-1918, 1940-1945
Found in: Special Collections

World War I clippings

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0049
Collection Overview

The collection consists of various newspaper clippings and weekly journals concerning the First World War. The majority of the clippings are from the New York Times.

Dates: 1914-1919
Found in: Special Collections

World War I scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-089
Collection Overview

The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from an unidentified publication concerning World War I. No information regarding the ownership of the scrapbook, or the dates it covers is available.

Dates: 1914-1918
Found in: Special Collections

Lillian Ransier Wright papers collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1042
Abstract Compilation of the Ransier and Wright family history and contribution to the advancement of African-American community. The collection focuses on the contributions of Alonzo Jacob Ransier in the reconstruction era being a congressman and Lt. Gov. of SC. He was also Lillian Ransier Wright’s father. Lillian Ransier Wright was a graduate of the Avery Normal Institute and was teacher by profession and was involved in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church whereas her husband William G. Wright taught...
Dates: 1924-1995
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Wyrick and Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0228
Abstract

Assorted materials including publisher files, office files, author correspondence files, publishing and production files, layout and design materials, and other records of the Charleston, South Carolina-based publisher Wyrick and Company Publishers.

Dates: 1971-2016
Found in: Special Collections

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correspondence 252
clippings (information artifacts) 189
photographs 135
black-and-white photographs 111
scrapbooks 80
photocopies 66
color photographs 60
Charleston (S.C.) 54
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 51
financial records 51
certificates 47
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 45
letters (correspondence) 42
minutes (administrative records) 41
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 39
family papers 39
photograph albums 37
black-and-white negatives 35
genealogies (histories) 35
pamphlets 34
printed ephemera 34
programs (documents) 34
diaries 33
videocassettes 30
DVDs 29
digital images 28
South Carolina -- History 25
artifacts (object genre) 25
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 24
typescripts 24
black-and-white slides 23
compact discs 23
newsletters 23
memoirs 22
postcards 22
publications (documents) 22
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 21
audiocassettes 21
South Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 20
articles 20
manuscripts for publication 19
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 18
administrative records 18
ledgers (account books) 18
manuscripts (documents) 18
Photographs 17
genealogical tables 17
notes (documents) 17
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 16
Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 16
legal documents 16
drawings (visual works) 15
obituaries 15
receipts (financial records) 15
transcripts 15
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Correspondence 14
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 13
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 13
Ephemera 13
awards 13
business records 13
maps (documents) 13
poems 13
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 12
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 12
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 12
Oral histories 12
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 12
color slides 12
sketches 12
speeches (documents) 12
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 11
essays 11
lists (document genres) 11
poetry 11
research notes 11
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
Jewish families -- South Carolina 10
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
cabinet photographs 10
diplomas 10
drafts (documents) 10
magazines (periodicals) 10
negatives (photographs) 10
personal correspondence 10
school yearbooks 10
slides (photographs) 10
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American churches 9
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 9
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
Holocaust survivors 9
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 9
books 9
daguerreotypes (photographs) 9
journals (accounts) 9
membership lists 9
Names
Avery Normal Institute 48
College of Charleston 46
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 29
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 17
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 16
College of Charleston. Library 16
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 16
Avery Research Center 15
United States. Army 13
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
DeCosta family 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
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 6
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 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
Allen University 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
Brown, Millicent E. 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
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 5
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 5
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
Waring, Elizabeth 5
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 5
American Missionary Association 4
Benedict College 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
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 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
Hunt, Eugene C. 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
Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 4
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Pogson family 4
Potts family 4
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 4
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 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
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Stern, Theodore Sanders 4
Tobias, Thomas J. 4
United States. Navy 4
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