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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
Wolff family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1045
Collection Overview
Collection contains 37 letters, handwritten in gothic German with some passages in Yiddish and Hebrew. Letters contain correspondence (1873-1899) between members of the Wolff family in Germany and Henry Wolff in Allendale, SC. Several letters written on Henry Wolff's business letterhead, "Henry Wolff/Dealer in General Merchandise, Cotton and Fertilizers/Allendale, SC."
Most correspondence is dated; many letters came from Rogowo (now part of Poland); several letters written to Henry Wolff...
Dates:
1873-1920
Found in:
Special Collections
Lois and Raphael Wolpert photographs of Beth Israel Congregation
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-089
Abstract
This collection consists of ten photographs taken by Lois and Raphael Wolpert documenting various events and people associated with Beth Israel Congregation in Florence, South Carolina.
Dates:
1956-1974
Found in:
Special Collections
Zionist Organization of America (Charleston, S.C.) papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-051
Collection Overview
The minutes (1917-1933 with a gap from May 1922-November 1923; and 1940-1944) cover all the special and regular meetings of the organization. Members attending are listed and there are various lists throughout the volume, detailing the approximately 100 or so men and women who belonged. Topics were discussed, at first, in both Yiddish and English. Dues were collected and there are frequent mentions of the need to raise more funds for specific causes, and the need to energize the populations...
Dates:
1917-1947
Found in:
Special Collections