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Virginia Geraty papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1123
Abstract
Virginia Mixson Geraty (1915-2004) was born in Summerville, South Carolina to Edward Miles Mixson and his wife Ethel Sarah Ray Mixson. Geraty attended Immaculate Catholic School at Hendersonville, North Carolina, where her family lived during part of her childhood. After the passing of her younger brother and father, Geraty and her family moved to Yonges Island, South Carolina. It was there on the island that Geraty became interested in Gullah, when she heard it being spoken by a family...
Dates:
1915-2007; Majority of material found within 1978-2004
Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract
Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates:
1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999
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- African American cemeteries -- South Carolina 1
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- Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Kiawah Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- Sea Islands Creole dialect -- Dictionaries -- English 1
- Sea Islands Creole dialect -- South Carolina 1
- Sea Islands Creole dialect -- Study and teaching 1
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- Seabrook Island (S.C.) -- History 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
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- Wadmalaw Island (S.C.) -- History 1 + ∧ less
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- Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
- Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
- Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
- Carawan, Guy 1
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
- Evans, Virginia Geraty 1
- Geraty, Edward Mixson 1
- Geraty, Virginia Mixson 1
- Hebron Presbyterian Church (Johns Island, S.C.) 1
- Hicks, Judith Geraty 1
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 1
- Massenburg, Joyce 1
- McGehearty family 1
- Mitchell, Julian A. (Julian Augustus), 1836-1907 1
- Morawetz, Victor, 1859-1938 1
- National League of American Pen Women 1
- Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association 1
- Pivnick, Esther Kaplan, 1913-2001 1
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
- Schaffer, Ferdinand, 1831-1913 1
- Seabrook Island Natural History Group (S.C.) 1
- Seabrook, William, Sr., 1773-1836 1
- South Carolina Educational Television Network 1
- St. John's Parish (S.C.) 1
- Stringfellow, Elizabeth Hamilton, 1920- 1
- United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 1
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