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Charlotte A. Myers collection

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Identifier: Mss 0213
Abstract The collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Charlotte A. Myers’ divorce from literary critic and poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Materials also relate to Caroline Griswold, a writer and Griswold’s daughter from his first marriage, who was raised by Myers. There are also daguerreotype portraits of Myers and Caroline Griswold and a commonplace book assembled by Myers. The papers also cover correspondence between Griswold’s grandchildren and Joy Bayless, author of the...
Dates: 1818-1943

Hugo Schiller papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-006
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoirs, and other papers of Hugo Schiller. Materials relate to Schiller's rescue from the Gurs concentration camp in France by Alice Resch Synnestvedt, a Quaker volunteer from Norway; his time at Aspet, the Quaker children's home; and his eventual escape from France to the United States. Correspondence includes letters from his parents and aunt while he was at Aspet, discussing their life in Gurs and advice for Schiller after his rescue.

Dates: 1942-2001

Vera Nathans Semel papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-016
Abstract Photographs, birth certificates, marriage certificates, identity cards, passports, and other papers of Vera Nathans Semel, a Dutch Jew who survived World War II in hiding. Most papers, including birth and marriage certificates, relate to Nathans's maternal family, the Paerls. Pre-war photographs show Nathans's maternal grandparents and uncle in Amsterdam; post-war photographs show her, her parents, husband, and children in Beverwijk and Bussum, both in the Netherlands, and in Scarsdale, New...
Dates: 1830-1996

Francine Ajzensztark Taylor papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-010
Abstract

Photographs and false identification papers of Francine Ajzensztark Taylor, a Polish-born Jew raised in France before World War II. Photographs depict her and her family members in pre-war England and Poland, as well as in France before, during, and after the war. Also includes four videocassette programs, including two detailed interviews with Taylor in which she discusses her life in France before, during, and after the war.

Dates: 1913-1998

Lucille Simmons Whipper papers

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Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates: 1900-2016, undated

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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 7
 
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clippings (information artifacts) 6
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 5
correspondence 5
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
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African American teenagers -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 4
photocopies 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
black-and-white negatives 3
black-and-white slides 3
photographs 3
African American churches 2
Bussum (Netherlands) 2
Charleston (S.C.) 2
Custody of children -- United States 2
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- Netherlands 2
Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands 2
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 2
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands 2
Photographs 2
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 2
diaries 2
digital images 2
facsimiles (reproductions) 2
identity cards 2
memoirs 2
videocassettes 2
Adolescence 1
Affirmative Action programs 1
African American History Month 1
African American Methodists 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American men 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
African American youth 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Mount Pleasant 1
African Americans -- Genealogy 1
African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Periodicals 1
African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Religion 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 1
American literature -- 20th century 1
Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1
Aspet (France) 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- African American membership 1
Avery Tiger 1
Beverwijk (Netherlands) 1
Boards of directors 1
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Child care 1
Children 1
Children and adults -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Children of freed persons 1
Children of same-sex parents -- South Carolina 1
Church buildings 1
Church music 1
Divorce -- United States 1
Education -- 19th century 1
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Freed persons 1
Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina 1
Gay parents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina 1
Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina 1
Gay people -- Violence against -- South Carolina 1
Gay people in advertising -- South Carolina 1
Gay rights -- South Carolina 1
Gurs (France) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- France 1
Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Liberty Hill 1
Historic preservation -- South Carolina -- Liberty Hill 1
Historic sites -- South Carolina -- Liberty Hill 1
Holocaust survivors 1
Holocaust survivors -- France 1
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 1
Homophobia -- South Carolina 1
Homosexuality -- Poetry 1
Internalized homophobia 1
Jewish authors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Land titles -- Registration and transfer 1
Lesbians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina 1
Liberty Hill (S.C.) 1
Liberty Hill (S.C.) -- Church history 1
Liberty Hill (S.C.) -- History 1
Marriage -- United States 1
Mentoring -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Language
English 14
Dutch; Flemish 2
French 2
German 1
No linguistic content; Not applicable 1
 
Names
Avery Normal Institute 3
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 2
Avery Research Center 2
100 Black Men of America, Inc. 1
100 Black Men of Charleston 1
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Adkins, Diny K., 1938- 1
Alliance for Full Acceptance 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Gamma Xi Omega Chapter (Charleston, S.C.) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
Baptist Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows of Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Bayless, Joy 1
Benedict College 1
Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Charleston County Legislative Delegation 1
Charleston County School District 1
Charleston Pride Festival, Inc. 1
Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 1
Cupp, Ruth Williams, 1928- 1
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 1
Freeman Foundation 1
Glenn, Chase 1
Griswold, M. Caroline 1
Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
Jervey, Theodore D. (Theodore Dehon), 1859-1947 1
Ketner, Linda 1
Lecque family 1
Lewisohn, Edna, 1908- 1
Lewisohn, James 1
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955 1
Lewisohn, Thelma Spear 1
Melnick, Ralph 1
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 1
Myers, Charlotte 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Paerl family 1
Perdix, Elizabeth 1
Redman-Gress, Warren 1
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Semel, Vera Nathans, 1943- 1
Smith, Charlie 1
South Carolina Equality Coalition 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Taylor, Francine Ajzensztark, 1928- 1
United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 508th 1
Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962 1
We Are Family (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Whipper, Benjamin James, 1912-1998 1
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 1
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 1
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