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Fritz P. Hamer research materials on the Charleston Navy Yard

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Identifier: Mss 0222
Collection Overview The collection contains research notes, correspondence, transcripts of oral history interviews, manuscript drafts, photographs, and photocopies of primary source materials for Fritz P. Hamer’s 1998 dissertation A Southern City Enters the Twentieth Century: Charleston, its Navy Yard, and World War II, 1940-1948 and 2005 book Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, its Navy Yard and World War II. Research materials also focus on...
Dates: 1947-2013; Majority of material found within 1995-2005
Found in: Special Collections

Isaac Harby family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1097
Abstract

Collection consists of the papers of journalist, playwright, educator, and religious reformer, Isaac Harby, and the Harby family. Papers include correspondence, essays, a play, and newspaper clippings relating to Isaac Harby and his descendants.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1815-1869
Found in: Special Collections

Harby, Moïse, Levy, Moses, and Davis family photographs

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Identifier: Mss 1131
Abstract Photographic portraits featuring the relations of Octavia Harby Moses, including her immediate family as well as descendants and relatives through the marriages of her children. Octavia Harby Moses married Andrew J. Moses in 1839 and the couple had eighteen children, fourteen of whom lived to adulthood. Many of the children married into the Moïse, Levy, Moses, and Davis families, which are primarily featured in the collection. The photographs were originally housed in an album believed to...
Dates: circa 1860-1890
Found in: Special Collections

Heyward and Ferguson family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0092
Collection Overview The papers consist of family and business correspondence between members of the Heyward family. Nathaniel Heyward (1766-1851) of South Carolina and his wife Henrietta Manigault Heyward (1769-1827) correspond with their sons Nathaniel Heyward (1790-1819) and William Manigault Heyward (1788-1820); their grandsons Nathaniel Barnwell Heyward (1816-1891), James Barnwell Heyward (1817-1886) and William Henry Heyward (1817-1889); and other relations regarding plantation provisions and rice planting...
Dates: 1806-1923
Found in: Special Collections

Hirsch family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1080
Abstract

Legal documents, financial papers, correspondence, photographs, and other assorted papers of the Hirsch family of Charleston, South Carolina, and New York, New York. Materials relate to Jacob Hirsch and his wife, Esther Hirsch; his sons, Max Joseph Hirsch, an actor in New York's Yiddish theaters, Louis Hirsch, and Isaac "Bingo" Hirsch; his daughter Julia Hirsch; Max's wife Sylvia Charen Hirsch, and his daughter Betty Hirsch Lancer.

Dates: 1916-1990
Found in: Special Collections

Hornik's Bargain House catalog

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Identifier: Mss 1034-097
Abstract

The collection includes a spring 1910 catalog from Hornik's Bargain House of Charleston, South Carolina, a dry goods wholesale store. The catalog contains descriptions, images, and prices of goods as well as general advice on how to run a successful business. Also included is a color reproduction of a postcard featuring the Charleston city market on Meeting Street. The M. Hornik & Co. storefront, located on the corner of Meeting and Market Streets, can be seen in the background.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Special Collections

Alexander von Humboldt clippings

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Identifier: Mss 0034-100
Collection Overview

The collection consists of two newspaper clippings concerning correspondence from Alexander V. Humboldt. One of the clippings contains the full text of a letter from Humboldt to George Ticknor. It is dated July 10, 1858. The second clipping discusses Humboldt's correspondence. It is dated June 20, 1860.

Dates: 1858, 1860
Found in: Special Collections

Edward Hyrne letter, 1700 (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-114
Collection Overview The document is a photocopy of a letter sent from Charleston to England. It was written by Edward Hyrne to his wife, who is only identified as "My Dear Love," on October 19, 1700. In the letter, Hyrne described a hurricane that hit Charleston on September 30, 1700. He also gave a brief account of life in the city. A typescript of the letter is also included in the collection. Each leaf is a two sided photocopy. On the back side of each leaf is a stamp from the "Taurus Gallery" in London,...
Dates: approximately 1980
Found in: Special Collections

Iseman family collection

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Identifier: Mss 1073
Collection Overview

This collection contains information pertaining to the Iseman family. The first box includes letters, genealogical research, photocopies, photographs, and correspondence related to the Iseman family. The second box contains biographical files of Iseman family members, including family genealogy notes.

Dates: 1961-1996
Found in: Special Collections

Ruth Bass Jacobs papers

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Identifier: Mss 1010
Abstract Newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, newsletters, memoirs, recordings, and other papers of Ruth Bass Jacobs. Materials relate to Jacobs's family history and involvement in Charleston's Jewish community, particularly Brith Sholom Beth Israel and the Addlestone Hebrew Academy. Included are biographical papers and documents regarding the Bass and Jacobs families as well as newspaper clippings on topics of interest. The collection also consists of audio and video recordings of...
Dates: 1882-2011
Found in: Special Collections

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We Are Family (Charleston, S.C.) 3
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Bennett, John, 1865-1956 2
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Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 2
Cohen family 2
Confederate Home and College (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 2
Grice, George Daniel, 1900-1977 2
Harby family 2
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Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 2
I.M. Pearlstine & Sons (S.C.) 2
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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Lathan, Robert, 1881-1937 2
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Lowcountry AIDS Services 2
Medical University of South Carolina 2
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National Council of Jewish Women. Charleston Section 2
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Shulman, Nat, 1914-2000 2
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 2
Smith family 2
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St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Stern, Theodore Sanders 2
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.). Sisterhood 2
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services 2
United States. Navy 2
Aberman, Mary Ann, 1935- 1
Academy of Music (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
Aiken, William Martin, 1855-1908 1
Aimar, G. W. 1
Aleph Zadik Aleph 1
Aleph Zadik Aleph. Charleston Chapter 1
Alexander, M. Bishop 1
Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949 1
Alston family 1
Alterman, Jennet Robinson 1
Alterman, Marsha 1
Alwyn's Department Store (Georgetown, S.C.) 1
American Views 1
Archambault, Sandra Covin, 1944-2022 1
Ashley Theater (West Ashley, S.C.) 1
B'nai B'rith Girls. Charleston Chapter No. 1134 1
B'nai B'rith Girls. Charleston Chapter No. 1541 1
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization 1
B'nai B'rith Youth Organization. District No. 5 1
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Baker family 1
Baker, Barry 1
Baker, Louis, 1909-1955 1
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Banov family 1
Banov, Alan 1
Banov, Leon, Jr., 1914-2007 1
Banov, Rita Landesman, 1920-2002 1
Barnwell family 1
Barnwell, Catherine Osborn, 1809-1886 1
Barnwell, William Hazzard, 1806-1863 1
Bass family 1
Bayless, Joy 1
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Bennett, Susan Smythe, 1878-1965 1
Berendt family 1
Berendt, Anna Gelson, 1913-2001 1
Berendt, Benjamin, 1912-2010 1
Berendt, Gerald E. 1
Bergen, Jane B. 1
Berlinsky, Jaclyn 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
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