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Fellowship Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0151
Abstract

Minutes (1769-1963), membership records (1762-1993) and financial records (1774-2004) document all activities of the Fellowship Society, a Charleston, South Carolina benevolent organization dedicated to charity, education, and upkeep of widows and orphans of its members.

Dates: 1762-2005
Found in: Special Collections

Mary Jo Smith Fetzer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0164
Abstract

The collection consists of the papers of Mary Jo Smith Fetzer, graphic artist and founding staff member of WCIV-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. The papers include photographs, correspondence, and artwork from Fetzer’s personal and professional life and materials belonging to her partner, M.E. Van Dyke.

Dates: circa 1870s-2006; Majority of material found within 1943-2006
Found in: Special Collections

Herb Frazier papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1088
Abstract Herb Frazier, an African American journalist based in the Lowcountry, has reported and edited for various newspapers in South Carolina and elsewhere since 1972. Frazier has been active in professional journalism associations and in education initiatives for minority journalism.The collection includes materials related to the personal and professional life of Herb Frazier. A small portion of the collection contains biographical, educational, and other personal information. The...
Dates: 1972-2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Lissa D'Aquisto Felzer's Charleston "Freedman's Cottage" project collection

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Identifier: AMN 1140
Abstract Lissa D'Aquisto Felzer is a former Senior Preservation Planner for the City of Charleston and adjunct professor with the College of Charleston. This collection contains final reports from Professor Felzer's course, "Researching Historic Properties" (ARTH-290) taught at the College of Charleston in 2006. Students were assigned to write detailed property histories of houses identified as "Freedman's cottages." The property histories are derived from a variety of documents: deeds and indices;...
Dates: 2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Furchgott and Brothers department store newspaper advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-090
Abstract

Collection consists of a full page advertisement for Furchgott and Brothers and a postcard of a 1900 photograph of King Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1910
Found in: Special Collections

Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1120
Abstract The collection consists of photographs, photograph albums, diaries, scrapbooks, High School of Charleston and university materials, correspondence, travel souvenirs, oral histories, and family interviews of Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro. The majority of materials document Sandra Garfinkel Shapiro's youth, from her teenage years through her graduation from University of North Carolina in 1957, with the largest portion of the collection consisting of photographs of Sandra and her...
Dates: 1901-2014; Majority of material found within 1935-2002
Found in: Special Collections

Virginia Geraty papers

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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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

German Friendly Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0019
Abstract

The German Friendly Society was a social and benevolent organization founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1766. This collection contains typewritten transcriptions of their meeting minutes (1766-1858) compiled during a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) project from 1935-1940.

Dates: 1766-1940
Found in: Special Collections

Jan Goin collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0165
Abstract

Family papers collected by Jan Goin, owner of the Jan Goin Gallery in Charleston, S.C. and estate executor for relative and Charleston social worker Rena Muller. Includes data regarding Muller, Kruse, Wulbern and related German family history, including Charleston real estate materials, items from World War II veteran Kruse Muller, family photographs, Confederate paper money, and a large number of Charleston artist files from the gallery.

Dates: 1786-1998; Majority of material found within 1940-1985
Found in: Special Collections

Goldberg family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1051
Abstract Papers of the Goldberg (a.k.a. Gelbart or Geldbart) family of Mogielnica, Poland, and Charleston, South Carolina. The collection includes photographs of family members in Poland and South Carolina; a brief family history; and correspondence (1920s-1930s) between family members in Mogielnica and brothers Gershon (George Goldberg) and Yisroel (Israel Geldbart) in Charleston. Also included are two memorial photograph albums that chronicle Moshe Yidel Gelbart's funeral procession in Mogielnica...
Dates: 1902-1953
Found in: Special Collections

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference 3
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We Are Family (Charleston, S.C.) 3
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Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 2
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Eastman, Margaret Middleton Rivers 2
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Grice, George Daniel, 1900-1977 2
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Hirsch family 2
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
I.M. Pearlstine & Sons (S.C.) 2
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
Lathan, Robert, 1881-1937 2
Levy family 2
Lowcountry AIDS Services 2
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Moses family 2
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
National Council of Jewish Women. Charleston Section 2
National Jewish Welfare Board 2
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Raisin, Rachel M. 2
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Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
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Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 2
Smith family 2
Smith, Charlie 2
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Stern, Theodore Sanders 2
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services 2
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 2
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 2
Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A 2
A. Philip Randolph Institute 1
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
African American Education and Research Organization 1
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Aiken, William Martin, 1855-1908 1
Aimar, G. W. 1
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Alexander, M. Bishop 1
Allen University 1
Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949 1
Alliance for Concerned Citizens 1
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