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Isaac Auld collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-091
Collection Overview The collection includes a letter of recommendation from Dr. Auld, late principal of the Edisto Island Academy, dated March 10, 1815, from Rev. A.P. Thayer of the Classics Department of Edisto Island Academy. In this letter, Auld mentions that Thayer kept the school open during "the recent war" (the War of 1812). There is a copy of Auld's genealogy prepared by Earnest Malcom Auld in 1963. Also included is a copy of McDonald L. Burbedge's "Isaac Auld, A Founding Father of the Supreme Council,...
Dates: 1815, 2000, undated

Bacot family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0003
Collection Overview Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama, concern family matters. Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger...
Dates: 1860-1938

Harry Blas and Erika Stockfleth Blas papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-029
Abstract

The collection consists mainly of copy negatives, slides, and digital images of pre-World War II photographs of the families of Harry Blas, born in Łódź, Poland, and Erika Stockfleth Blas, born in Grevesmühlen, Germany. Also included is a short memoir by Harry Blas detailing his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp, and a handwritten genealogy of the Stockfleth family by Erika Blas.

Dates: circa 1910-circa 1980

Bryan, Carson, Moses, and Werber family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1152
Abstract The Bryan, Carson, Moses, and Werber families of Sumter County, South Carolina, represent the relationships between Jewish and Christian families in 19th century South Carolina. Henry Claremont Moses, of a prominent Jewish family, married Andrena Werber, of a Christian family, in 1878; their daughter Catherine married William Alfred Bryan. This collection contains papers, correspondence, photographs/daguerreotypes, genealogical records, and artifacts from the Bryan branch of the family. A...
Dates: approximately 1840s-2011; Majority of material found within 1911-1984

John Cordes estate book, 1764-1798 (typescript copy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-017
Collection Overview Typescript copy of the John Cordes estate book (1764-1798) transcribed during a 1935-1937 W.P.A. project. Inventory and appraisal (1764) of the John Cordes estate contains lists of slaves (names and appraised values), dishes, furniture, linens, animals, rice, indigo, and other items. The volume also includes slaves (with names and valuations) taken by Catharine Cordes of Charleston (S.C.), and by Theodore Gaillard. Memorandums signed by the estate's executor Samuel Cordes are with other...
Dates: 1937

Ford-Fraser family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0015
Collection Overview Papers include a bond, an obituary, genealogical information, and a family Bible.; The bond (1852) in Georgetown (S.C.) of John Potts Ford to James Rees Ford, trustee of the estate of George T. and Mary W. Ford is for $4,000. The obituary of Elizabeth Shackelford Ford pays tribute to the child. Family genealogy relates to the children (born 1826-1840) of Stephen C. and Hannah Ford, and to the Fraser family. Genealogy includes excerpts from two Fraser family letters (1893, 1896).; A family...
Dates: 1839-approximately 1926

Jacobosky-Friedburg-Gaeser-Altman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1011
Collection Overview Includes photographs, genealogies, correspondence, clippings, certificates, and typescripts. Papers cover four generations of Jacobosky, Friedberg, Gaeser, and Altman families and include genealogies, family memoirs (1861-1964) compiled by Etta Friedberg Gaeser (1936) and Francine Altman Lichtman (1964), correspondence (1930s-1980s), and certificates awarded to Walter Gaeser (Navy) and Ermine Gaeser Altman (including an original United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate,...
Dates: 1870s-1980s

Levi and D'Ancona families papers

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Identifier: Mss 1159
Abstract

Collection includes assorted family records relating to the Levi and D'Ancona families as well as a small amount of materials relating to the Gruenwald/Greenwald family. Also included are the papers of Wendell Mitchell Levi Sr. and his son Dr. Wendell M. Levi Jr.

Dates: 1753-2016; Majority of material found within 1900-2016

Wendell Mitchell Levi papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0079
Collection Overview The papers of Wendell Mitchell Levi include his correspondence, biographical and genealogical information, notes, material related to his publications, and photographs. Correspondence includes personal and business letters from various individuals and businesses and organizations, and copies of letters sent by Levi. Topics include Levi's writings, pigeons (breeding, training, racing, care, diseases, and many other related subjects), a city ordinance banning pigeon raising, the controversy...
Dates: 1827-1995

Rosenberg, Loeb, and Winstock family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1130
Abstract Photographs, scrapbooks, financial papers, diplomas, certificates, and genealogical research of the Rosenberg, Loeb, and Winstock family. Materials focus primarily on the merchant Abraham Rosenberg and his descendants. Genealogical research includes articles and Evelyn Rosenberg Gross-Brien's biographical information and Ph.D. thesis written on her ancestor and namesake Eva Leah Visanska Winstock. Of note is a scrapbook containing a large number of letters between members of the Rosenberg...
Dates: 1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1900-1965

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correspondence 7
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South Carolina -- History 3
black-and-white photographs 3
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Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 2
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Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Greenwood 2
Pigeons 2
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jewish 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 2
daguerreotypes (photographs) 2
diaries 2
manuscripts for publication 2
photocopies 2
Abbeville (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1
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Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Charleston Earthquake, S.C., 1886 1
Curriboo Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1
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Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter 1
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Myrtle Grove Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
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Yaughan Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
appraisals (financial records) 1
artifacts (object genre) 1
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black-and-white negatives 1
black-and-white slides 1
bonds (negotiable instruments) 1
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D'Ancona family 2
Huger family 2
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1891-1976 2
Levy family 2
Rosenberg family 2
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Rosenberg, Abraham, 1859-1920 2
United States. Works Progress Administration 2
Winstock family 2
Altman family 1
Auld, Isaac, 1770-1826 1
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 1
Bacot family 1
Bacot, Barnwell Rhett, 1891-1912 1
Bacot, D. Huger, 1888-1974 1
Bacot, Daniel Huger, 1847-1920 1
Bacot, Josephine Rhett, 1859-1932 1
Bacot, Walter Rhett, 1899-1978 1
Bailey family 1
Barn, Isaac, -approximately 1784 1
Blas, Erika 1
Blas, Harry, 1924-2003 1
Bryan (Family : Sumter County, S.C.) 1
Bryan, Susan Carson 1
Bryant family 1
Cambridge family 1
Carson family 1
Cave family 1
Cordes, Catharine, 1724-1805 1
Cordes, Catharine, 1745-1832 1
Cordes, John, 1718-1756 1
Cordes, John, 1749-1798 1
Cordes, Samuel, -1796 1
Cordes, Thomas, 1753-1806 1
Edisto Island Academy 1
FitzSimons, Mabel Trott, 1883-1979 1
Fitzsimmons family 1
Ford family 1
Ford, Elizabeth Shackelford, 1859-1874 1
Ford, George T. 1
Ford, Hannah, -1871 1
Ford, J. Rees (James Rees), 1815-1889 1
Ford, John Potts 1
Ford, Martha Elizabeth Henning, 1819-1907 1
Ford, Mary Warham Toomer 1
Ford, Stephen Charles, 1803-1855 1
Fraser family 1
Freudenberg family 1
Freudenberg, Larry Walter, 1959- 1
Freudenberg, Maxine Triest 1
Friedburg family 1
Gaeser family 1
Gaillard, Theodore, 1737-1805 1
Good family 1
Gregorie family 1
Gross-Brein, Evelyn Rosenberg 1
Hendricks family 1
Hendricks, Henry W., 1826-1898 1
Horry family 1
Horton family 1
Jacobosky family 1
Kass, Carolyn Altman 1
Katz, Phyllis Altman 1
Leftwich family 1
Levi, Kathryn Weinberg 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1927-2015 1
Loeb family 1
Loeb, William J. 1
Lyons, Agnes P. 1
Miguez, Andrena Bryan 1
Moses family 1
Mott family 1
Palmetto Pigeon Plant 1
Pitts, Sue A. 1
Porch family 1
Porcher, William Mazyck 1
Rhett family 1
Rhett, Josephine Horton, 1830-1860 1
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876 1
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1828-1905 1
Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1854-1901 1
Rosenberg, Ernest, 1892-1978 1
Rosenberg, Herbert Jerome, 1886-1963 1
Rosenberg, Herbert, 1913-1991 1
Rosenberg, Leman, 1921-2008 1
Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction 1
Shubrick family 1
Thompson, Elise 1
Trapier family 1
Trapier, Paul, 1806-1872 1
Trapier, Sarah Dehon, 1815-1889 1
Triest (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Triest and Israel Insurance and Brokerage Agency (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Triest and Sholk Agency (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Triest family 1
Triest, Maier, 1831-1894 1
Triest, Maier, 1901-1969 1
Triest, Montague, 1871-1927 1
Trott family 1
Venning family 1
Visanska family 1
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