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South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1037
Collection Overview
Collection includes correspondence, organization files, photographs, financial records, minutes, publications, programs.
Collection consists of organizational records of the South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges (SCABBL); bulk is minutes (1948-1997) from annual conventions and quarterly executive committee meetings. Also included are minutes and programs from South Carolina State Conferences (1952, 1953) of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; minutes from District Grand...
Dates:
1940-1997
Found in:
Special Collections
South Carolina Rosenwald Schools collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1152
Abstract
The Rosenwald Schools Initiative was founded by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington and Sears and Roebuck Co. president, Julius Rosenwald in 1912. Washington saw the need to build schools for African Americans, particularly in rural areas across the South and Rosenwald was looking for a charitable opportunity to support and expressed interest in the plight of the Black community. Although Washington passed away in late 1915, the Rosenwald Fund went on to support the creation of...
Dates:
1912-2005, undated
Southern Jewish Historical Society records-Part I
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1056a
Collection Overview
Part I is the first accession of the Southern Jewish Historical Society records. Records are divided into eleven series. Series #1, Administrative Records, 1978-2000; includes organizational histories; constitution and by-laws, tax-exempt paperwork; presidents' reports; executive board member lists and committee appointments (by year); executive board meeting minutes (1982-2000); general business meeting minutes (1984-1998); committee correspondence and reports; lists of Jewish publications...
Dates:
1978-2002; Majority of material found within 1985-1994
Found in:
Special Collections
St. Mark's Episcopal Church records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1121
Abstract
St. Mark's Episcopal Church was organized as an independent parish in 1865 by a group of prominent black Episcopalians who were without a place to worship- since most of the white Episcopalian churches were evacuated in Charleston as a result of the city's occupation by Union Forces. The church's first service was held on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. The congregation continued to grow and in 1870 a lot at the corner of Warren and Thomas Streets in historic Radcliffeborough was purchased...
Dates:
1862-2006
St. Philip Street "Rewisited" Reunion
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1001
Collection Overview
Material related to reunion of St. Philip Street Jewish community, March 2-4, 1990, Charleston, South Carolina.
Includes planning notes, reminiscences and correspondence, publicity materials, a video, photographs, prints of photographs, and photocopies of photographs.
The collection consists of reminiscences by St. Philip Street residents regarding life in the area during the 1930s-40s. Questionnaires containing biographical information about former residents are also available. Also notable...
Dates:
1920-1990
Found in:
Special Collections
Ethel Jorgensen Stafford papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-021
Abstract
The collection consists of images, postcards, clippings, and photocopies of Ethel Jorgensen Stafford, a U.S. Army nurse who was stationed in Germany in 1945. Included are atrocity photographs of concentration camp victims and photographs of war damage to German cities where Jorgensen was based, including Aachen, Viersen, Gardelegen, and Berlin.
Dates:
1943-1951, 2008
Found in:
Special Collections
Nathaniel W. Stephenson family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0050
Collection Overview
Papers consist of Nathaniel Wright Stephenson's writings, correspondence (with Lancelot Minor Harris, among others), lecture notes, diaries, artwork, and miscellaneous items; correspondence (1888-1920) of Martha Stephenson; business records and correspondence (1845-1895) of Reuben [Henry] Stephenson; a Wright family genealogy; correspondence of various Stephenson family members and acquaintances; diaries and journals of Wright and Stephenson family members; a book of sermons (n.d.);...
Dates:
1833-1933
Found in:
Special Collections
Theodore Sanders Stern papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0081
Collection Overview
This group of personal papers relates primarily to Stern's active participation in civic organizations. The collection is broken into two sections with Part A dealing with his civic activities while he was President of the College of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) and Part B containing information about his continuing involvement in community organizations after his retirement from the College in 1979.
Part A of this collection is largely about Stern's volunteer work with Charleston civic...
Dates:
1933-1999
Found in:
Special Collections
Theodore Sanders Stern scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0082
Collection Overview
Collection contains 8 scrapbooks from different time periods in Stern's life:
(1) 1927-1934: While at Columbia Grammar School in New York City.
(2) 1950-1953: Officer in Charge of the Norfolk Fuel Supply Depot (1950-1952) and while serving at Pearl Harbor (1953).
(3) 1959-1962: Presentation album entitled "Captain Theodore S. Stern, ESO, 1959-1962" documenting his work as Operations Officer of the Electronics Supply Office, Great Lakes.
(4) 1965-1967: Commander of the Naval Supply Center,...
Dates:
1927-1977
Found in:
Special Collections
Gordan B. Stine scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1028
Collection Overview
The scrapbooks contain correspondence, speeches, photographs, photocopies, clippings, ephemera, and pamphlets.
Collection consists of 27 unbound scrapbooks (have been rehoused in original order) compiled by Stine over the course of his professional career. Majority of collection deals with Stine's political and community accomplishments and highlights local and state political and civic issues, 1960s-1970s. His activities and achievements are documented by newspaper articles (majority from...
Dates:
1937-1989
Found in:
Special Collections