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George Smith Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0174
Abstract

Mainly George Smith Adams' genealogical research documenting his father George Alexander Adams (1887-1984), mother Theodora Elizabeth Smith Adams (1888-1983), grandfather Daniel Townsend Smith (1842-1929) with data on the Washington Artillery, and great grandfather Thomas Peter Smith (1814-1899). Also included are materials relating to his extended family and their surrounding areas, especially the Townsend family, Medway Plantation, Edisto Island, Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1826-2010; Majority of material found within 1925-1999
Found in: Special Collections

Grimke family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0176
Abstract Materials include Revolutionary War papers of John Paul Grimke and his son John Faucheraud Grimke, with materials re the latter as intendant (mayor) of Charleston. Papers of his son Thomas Smith Grimke document temperance, politics and education and contain an autograph collection. With papers of Thomas's siblings Frederick Grimke, abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld and others. With materials of two more following generations, and genealogical materials on Grimke,...
Dates: 1678-1977, circa 1990s
Found in: Special Collections

Fritz P. Hamer research materials on the Charleston Navy Yard

 Collection
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

Pincus Kolender papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-014
Abstract

The collection consists of images and transcripts of a speech and oral history interview of Pincus Kolender, a Jewish native of Bochnia, Poland, who survived imprisonment in multiple concentration camps during World War II, including Szebnie, Birkenau, Buna, and Dora. Images include pre- and post-war photographs of Kolender and his family, as well as those of his wife Renee Fox (formerly Fuchs) Kolender.

Dates: circa 1915-1996
Found in: Special Collections

National Council of Jewish Women Charleston Section records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1038
Abstract

The collection consists of the records of the Charleston Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. A substantial portion of the collection documents the Charleston Section's fundraising activities, charitable and educational programs, membership events, and 100th anniversary celebration through photographs, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other materials. Also included are materials documenting its administrative and financial activities and early history.

Dates: 1906-2018
Found in: Special Collections

B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1053
Collection Overview The collection consists of a scrapbook (1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 35 cm.) and pieces which were removed from the scrapbook and, in some cases, photocopied. The scrapbook is inscribed: "This is 'Mama's' scrapbook and was given to me by 'Mother' and 'Papa' on the 25th of September 1874. B.A.R. Ottolengui." Given to B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui in 1874, the scrapbook contains pseudonymous and other publications by his mother Helen Rodriguez Ottolengui in Civil War era publications as well as...
Dates: approximately 1860-approximately 1890; Majority of material found within 1860s-1879
Found in: Special Collections

Tornadoes in Charleston

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-083
Collection Overview This collection consists of two typed reports, a map and newspaper clippings about the two tornadoes which hit Charleston, S.C. on the morning of September 29, 1938. The first report by John E. Lockwood (meteorologist U.S. Weather Bureau) gives a description of the tornadoes paths, building damage, numbers killed by tornadoes and the value of property damage. The second report follows up with eyewitness accounts from Mr. W.A. Brunson, Mr. R.C. Alderedge (Weather Bureau Office), Mr. J.F. Fox,...
Dates: 1938
Found in: Special Collections

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