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Isaac Auld collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-091
Collection Overview
The collection includes a letter of recommendation from Dr. Auld, late principal of the Edisto Island Academy, dated March 10, 1815, from Rev. A.P. Thayer of the Classics Department of Edisto Island Academy. In this letter, Auld mentions that Thayer kept the school open during "the recent war" (the War of 1812). There is a copy of Auld's genealogy prepared by Earnest Malcom Auld in 1963. Also included is a copy of McDonald L. Burbedge's "Isaac Auld, A Founding Father of the Supreme Council,...
Dates:
1815, 2000, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1104
Abstract
The Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture was founded in 1978 by a group of Avery alumnae and other interested persons in the Charleston, South Carolina, area. Its mission was to rescue the Avery Normal School buildings and to develop an archive and museum for preserving African American history and culture of the South Carlina Lowcountry. Working with the College of Charleston, the property on Bull Street was acquired and, in 1985, the Avery Research Center for African...
Dates:
1978-2000
Avery School Memorabilia collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1159
Abstract
The Avery School Memorabilia collection contains documents that pertain to the activities at the Avery Normal Institute. These items include programs from musical and dramatic performances given by the students, commencements, invitations, dance cards and other memorabilia from extra-curricula activities. It also includes some copies of the Avery yearbook and student newspaper. Portions of this collection are available digitally on the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry Digital Library...
Dates:
approximately 1865-2005
; Majority of material found within 1869 - 1954
Bacot family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0003
Collection Overview
Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama, concern family matters.
Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger...
Dates:
1860-1938
Found in:
Special Collections
Bank of the United States stock indentures
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-085
Collection Overview
Consists of stock indentures issued in Charleston, South Carolina, to Isaac Ball, James Calder, Louis Danjou, John C. Faber, Marie Huguet, William Jenner, Basil Lanneau, Nathan Nathans, William Payne, Burridge Purvis, William Purvis, George Rose, J.E.A. Steinmetz, Williams Thayer, Miss A.E. Van Rhyn, and James Hamilton (of Georgia).
Dates:
1793-1818
Found in:
Special Collections
Dr. Elizabeth M. Bear collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1134
Abstract
Elizabeth M. Bear is a Professor Emeritus and former director of the Nurse-Midwifery program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) School of Nursing. Bear's collection is a reflection of her avid interest in the nurse-midwifery profession, notably focusing on the education of African-Americans midwives (lay and nurse-midwives).The majority of the collection contains photocopied journal, magazine and newspaper articles, reports, correspondence, and photographs; along...
Dates:
1922-2006; Majority of material found within 1941-1998
Bell family papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1001
Abstract
The African American Bell family of Charleston, South Carolina were descended from Sally (Sarah) Johnson, the matriarch of a free family of color who purchased 2 Green Street, circa 1844. In 1912, the property was willed to Hiram L. Bell (died 1952), a son of Jesse Miles DeReef and Holten L. Bell.These papers document properties owned by the family, especially the historic home at 2 Green Street, Charleston, sold to the College of Charleston in 1971. With materials on the history...
Dates:
approximately 1890-1972
"The Black Whale Captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880"
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-037
Collection Overview
Holograph manuscript with annotations and corrections written by Gabriel Manigault for publication in the Proceedings of the Elliott Society. In the manuscript Manigault notes that an earlier article, published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, was based on his letter to J.B. Holder. The manuscript describes the capture of a Right whale in Charleston harbor in January 1880, a description of the...
Dates:
1885
Found in:
Special Collections
Blamyer, Wigfall, Deas family collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0104
Abstract
The bulk of this collection contains scrapbooks and diaries of Elizabeth Mary Lesesne Blamyer Wigfall.
Dates:
1824-1975
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Shehitah 2
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- account books 2
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- English 120
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- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 3
- Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
- Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 3
- Blamyer family 2
- Blamyre family 2
- Blaymer, Frances Pogson, 1783-1869 2
- Bonds-Wilson High School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Carawan, Guy 2
- Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- College of Charleston. Library 2
- Confederate Home and College (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 2
- Hampton Institute 2
- Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 2
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
- Holmes, F. S. (Francis Simmons), 1815-1882 2
- Huger family 2
- Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899 2
- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 2
- Medical University of South Carolina 2
- Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825 2
- Pogson family 2
- Pogson, Milward, 1766-1836 2
- Porch family 2
- Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
- Rutledge family 2
- Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 2
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
- St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
- United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 2
- United States. Congress. House 2
- Waring, Elizabeth 2
- Wilson, John T., 1910-1994 2
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
- Aiken, William Martin, 1855-1908 1
- Alexander, Camille D. 1
- Allen University 1
- Allen, William Francis, 1830-1889 1
- Allston, Benjamin George, 1797-1852 1
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
- Alston family 1
- American Rose Society 1
- American Textile Manufacturers Institute 1
- Andell, Charles John, 1837-1876 1
- Andell, William, 1845-1932 1
- Auld, Isaac, 1770-1826 1
- Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture. Board of Directors 1
- Bachman, John, 1790-1874 1
- Bacot family 1
- Bacot, Barnwell Rhett, 1891-1912 1
- Bacot, D. Huger, 1888-1974 1
- Bacot, Daniel Huger, 1847-1920 1
- Bacot, Josephine Rhett, 1859-1932 1
- Bacot, Walter Rhett, 1899-1978 1
- Bank of the United States (1791-1811) 1
- Bank of the United States (1816-1836) 1
- Barksdale, Thomas 1
- Barn, Isaac, -approximately 1784 1
- Bear, Elizabeth M. 1
- Bell family 1
- Bell, Hiram Lewis 1
- Bell, James A. (James Augustus) 1
- Bell, Louise Purvis 1
- Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Bible Society of Charleston 1
- Birnbaum, Jean 1
- Birnbaum, Paul 1
- Blacks United for Action 1
- Blake, J. Herman 1
- Blanding, A. (Abraham), 1776-1839 1
- Boddie, William Willis, 1879-1940 1
- Bonds, J. R. (James Roosevelt), 1904-1992 1
- Bonds, Lacy, 1910-1973 1
- Bossange, Edward 1
- Bourdieu, Chollet & Bourdieu (London, England) 1
- Bragg, Laura M. (Laura Mary), 1881-1978 1
- Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers International Union of America. Local No. 1 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Briggs, Harry, -1986 1
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1
- Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Brown, Arthur Felder, Jr. 1
- Brown, Miriam M., 1901-2002 1
- Buchanan, Wood & Co. (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Byrd, George A. 1
- Byrd, Pierrine Smith, 1899-1994 1
- Callen, Maude E., 1898-1990 1
- Camp Baker (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Camp Juniper (Cheraw, S.C.) 1
- Camp K'Tanim (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Camp Saint Christopher (Seabrook Island, S.C.) 1
- Camp Wesash (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Carawan, Candie 1
- Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1 + ∧ less
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