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Guta Blas Weintraub papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 1065-019

Abstract Images and newspaper clippings of Guta Blas Weintraub, a Jewish resident of Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States after World War II, settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Pre-war images show members of the Blas and Weintraub families in Łódź and Bodzentyn, Poland. Wartime images show Leon Weintraub in a work camp in Starachowice, Poland, and Guta Blas in Sweden after her rescue. Post-war images show the Weintraubs in the Bergen-Belsen displaced...

Dates: circa 1922-2008

Found in: Special Collections

West Point Rice Mill Company records

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0051

Abstract Collection consists of the records of the West Point Rice Mill Company, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1885 to 1925. Records include correspondence and legal documents concerning transfers of stock related to estates and to the decrease of capital stock, a letterpress copybook containing letters primarily concerning the accounts of individuals and corporations, daybooks, ledgers, and cashbooks. Also included are checks, check stubs, canceled checks for dividends and liquidation, and...

Dates: 1885-1925

Found in: Special Collections

Weston family papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0055

Collection Overview Papers consist of Plowden Weston's business ledger (2 volumes), a plantation journal, and meterorological records for All Saints Parish, South Carolina. Ledger (1764-1769) contains accounts with numerous individuals and several estates of individuals. The ledger was also used as a plantation journal and contains entries and accounts (1830-1847, 1851, 1855) pertaining to Weston family plantations. Plantation journal (1802-1817) contains primarily accounts for the purchase of supplies for...

Dates: 1764-1855

Found in: Special Collections

G. Theodore Wichmann papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0075

Abstract

Theodore Wichmann (1886-1966) founded the Charleston Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and taught music lessons in Charleston, South Carolina. This collection includes Wichmann's writings on Mozart, Bizet, Rossini, Beethoven, and Ambroise Thomas, printed programs, and business and personal correspondence for the Orchestra and Wichmann's school music lessons.

Dates: 1904-1966

Found in: Special Collections

Tola Wilner Widawski photographs

Collection

Identifier: Mss 1065-020

Abstract

Slides, negatives, and digital images of Tola Wilner Widawski, a Jew from Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust. Pre-and post-World War II images show Wilner with friends and family, including her husband, Michislaw Widawski, and their children. Also included are images of the Polish exit permits the family used to leave Poland for Israel in 1957.

Dates: 1905-1957

Found in: Special Collections

Wigfall family papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0034-151

Collection Overview

This collection consists items related to the Wigfall family and includes documents, family histories, genealogies, portraits, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

Dates: 1978, undated

Found in: Special Collections

Wightman family papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0034-139

Collection Overview The collection consists of five letters concerning the history of the Wightman family in South Carolina and Rhode Island. The correspondents of the first letter are unknown. The second letter was written by Dr. G.B. Manzer to J.P. Wightman. This letter provides a brief history of the northern branch of the family, which resided in Rhode Island. The third letter was written by J.T. Wightman to his niece (whose name is not identified). The fourth letter was written by J.P Wightman to his...

Dates: 1906

Found in: Special Collections

Hubert Wilke papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0034-188

Abstract

Publications and CDs relating to the history of the Charleston radio station WUSN and to the life and work of Hubert Wilke, its first program director.

Dates: 2017 August 1, undated

Found in: Special Collections

Wilkinson and Keith family papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 0111

Abstract

The Wilkinson and Keith family papers consist of correspondence and other documents among the Wilkinson, Keith, Siegling, Haskell, and Marshall families and their friends dating from 1785 to 1920. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1820 to 1890, a large portion of which chronicles Willis Keith's experiences as a Confederate soldier in 1862-1863.

Dates: 1785-1920; Majority of material found within 1820-1890

Found in: Special Collections

Williams family papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss 1017

Abstract The majority of the collection consists of materials related to two memoirs written by Arthur V. Williams, Tales of Charleston 1930s, describing his childhood growing up in Charleston in the 1930s, and Tales of Clemson 1936-1940, on his four years at Clemson University prior to World War II. The collection also contains photographs of the Williams family of Charleston, South Carolina, primarily featuring Arthur V. Williams...

Dates: 1882-2004; Majority of material found within 1936-2004

Found in: Special Collections

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Guta Blas Weintraub papers

West Point Rice Mill Company records

Weston family papers

G. Theodore Wichmann papers

Tola Wilner Widawski photographs

Wigfall family papers

Wightman family papers

Hubert Wilke papers

Wilkinson and Keith family papers

Williams family papers

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