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Jane McDonald Craver scrapbooks

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Identifier: Mss 0010
Collection Overview Three scrapbooks: (1) Sept. 1940-June 1941; (2) July 1941-Dec. 1942; and (3) Jan. 1943-June 1944 contain a collection of memorabilia providing a comprehensive record of social life at the College of Charleston from 1940-1944, from student and city newspapers about the College and the deaths of alumni during World War II. The scrapbooks include invitations to parties and weddings, party favors and napkins, dance cards and booklets, photographs of picnics and beach parties, sorority rush rules...
Dates: 1940-1944

Thomas Della Torre papers

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Identifier: Mss 0034-021
Collection Overview

The collection contains undated lecture notes for professor della Torre, the funeral announcement of Cherubina Faverio Torriani (1929), and the funeral announcement of Princess Marie von Thurn Taxis (1934).

Dates: approximately 1878-1934

Alexander Colclough Dick collection

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Identifier: Mss 0024
Collection Overview

Collection contains biographical information about Dick including copies of recommendations for him to receive a Rhodes Scholarship and for Officer Training in the United States Army. Also included are photographs of Dick upon graduation from Oxford University in c. 1922 and upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the College of Charleston in 1970, and a portrait made of him in c. 1950. The collection contains the academic hoods presented by Oxford and the College of Charleston.

Dates: 1922-1970

Director's Cut Oral History Project

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Identifier: AMN 1209
Abstract The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to Avery, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure, the role the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played...
Dates: 2025

Edmund Lee Drago collection

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Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates: 1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991

Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney papers

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Identifier: AMN 1179
Abstract

The papers of Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney, educator, historian, former Director and Executive Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and Chair of the College of Charleston History Department.

Dates: 1956-2017

"Francis Simmons Holmes, First Curator of the Museum of the College of Charleston" biographical sketch, 1907 January (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-105
Collection Overview

A photocopy of a biographical sketch of Francis Simmons Holmes written by his daughter Mrs. George F. Von Kolnitz in January 1907. Francis S. Holmes, a native of Charleston, became an invertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Charleston Museum.

Dates: undated

Harry Wyman Freeman papers

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Identifier: Mss 0012
Collection Overview Collection contains correspondence regarding Dr. Freeman's work in the Department of Biology of the College of Charleston and his fund-raising for the College. His personal file includes correspondence he received from presidents and other officials of the College, his 1990 commencement address, biographical information prepared when he was presented an honorary doctorate by the College in 1995, his efforts to create scholarship funds, and his efforts to influence legislation to benefit the...
Dates: 1962-1998

Lewis R. Gibbes papers

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Identifier: Mss 0020
Abstract Papers of Lewis R. Gibbes, Professor of mathematics, astronomy, and physics at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1838-1892. Papers include materials relating to Gibbes' studies in France, assorted obituaries, eulogies, and memorials, his published papers and newspaper articles (collected into several scrapbooks) on his scientific work and other topics, assorted Elliott Society of Natural History materials, astronomical charts and calculations, assorted cartes de...
Dates: 1800s-1893, 1937

Clarence Graeser letter

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Identifier: Mss 0034-026
Collection Overview

The letter from Clarence Graeser to "D.O.M." mentions a hurricane that occurred in 1940 and briefly mentions the College of Charleston. Graeser was a graduate of the College of Charleston, and a professor of modern languages at the college during the 1930s.

Dates: undated

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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 4
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Stern, Theodore Sanders 4
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 3
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 3
Grice, George Daniel, 1900-1977 3
Holmes, F. S. (Francis Simmons), 1815-1882 3
Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899 3
Middleton, N. Russell (Nathaniel Russell), 1810-1890 3
Amistad Research Center 2
Bachman, John, 1790-1874 2
Byrd, George A. 2
Byrd, Pierrine Smith, 1899-1994 2
Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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College of Charleston. Chrestomathic Society 2
College of Charleston. Governor's School 2
College of Charleston. Museum 2
Coppedge, Walter, 1930- 2
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Dick, Alexander Colclough, 1893-1991 2
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 2
Elliott Society of Science & Art 2
Episcopal Church 2
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894 2
Miles, James Warley, 1818-1875 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Porcher, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus), 1809-1888 2
Randolph, Harrison, 1871-1954 2
University of Charleston, South Carolina 2
Achurch, William Cuttino 1
Adams, J. (Jasper), 1793-1841 1
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 1
Alterman, Jennet Robinson 1
American Missionary Association 1
American Rose Society 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 1
Baum family 1
Baum, Garry 1
Baum, Williams, 1916-1946 1
Bell family 1
Bell, Hiram Lewis 1
Bell, James A. (James Augustus) 1
Bell, Louise Purvis 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Boy Scouts of America 1
Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown family 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, MaeDe E. M., 1918-2012 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Buckley, Edward D. 1
Burges, George Detwiler, 1917-1944 1
Burges, Julius 1
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Butler, Tamara T. 1
Career Conference for Women. Steering Committee 1
Chamberlain, Olin Burnham 1
Chandler, Karen A. 1
Charleston Chamber of Commerce (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston College Academy 1
Charleston County School District 1
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Charleston County Woman's Club. Education Committee 1
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College of Charleston. Alumni Association. Committee on War Records 1
College of Charleston. Library 1
College of Charleston. Office of Substance Abuse Prevention 1
College of Charleston. Theodore S. Stern Student Center 1
Columbia Grammar School (New York, N.Y.) 1
Craver, Jane McDonald, 1923-2019 1
Cross, William H., 1904-1981 1
DeReef family 1
DeWolf, Charlotte Middleton, 1854-1919 1
Doar, Maria Middleton, 1844-1906 1
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Edison, Robert 1
Elliott Society of Natural History 1
Eustis, Edwina 1
First Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Florida State University 1
Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Fort Sumter Memorial Commission (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Fraser, Charles, 1782-1860 1
Freeman, Harry Wyman, 1923-2012 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Friendly Union Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Gibbes, Anna 1
Gibbes, Sarah P. 1
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza 1
Gourdin, Robert N., 1812-1894 1
Graeser, Clarence A., 1869-1953 1
Griffin, Laura, 1960-1996 1
Guilford College 1
Haegun Sagwan Hakkyo (Korea) 1
Hampton Institute 1
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 1