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Wightman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-139
Collection Overview The collection consists of five letters concerning the history of the Wightman family in South Carolina and Rhode Island. The correspondents of the first letter are unknown. The second letter was written by Dr. G.B. Manzer to J.P. Wightman. This letter provides a brief history of the northern branch of the family, which resided in Rhode Island. The third letter was written by J.T. Wightman to his niece (whose name is not identified). The fourth letter was written by J.P Wightman to his...
Dates: 1906
Found in: Special Collections

Wilkinson and Keith family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0111
Abstract

The Wilkinson and Keith family papers consist of correspondence and other documents among the Wilkinson, Keith, Siegling, Haskell, and Marshall families and their friends dating from 1785 to 1920. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1820 to 1890, a large portion of which chronicles Willis Keith's experiences as a Confederate soldier in 1862-1863.

Dates: 1785-1920; Majority of material found within 1820-1890
Found in: Special Collections

Peter H. Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1131
Abstract Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), is a American historian who authored, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion." Wood was a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008, where he was named Professor Emertius of History. Wood wrote the original version of "Black Majority" as his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, which was published in 1974.The...
Dates: 1964-1974; Majority of material found within 1973-1974
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Young Judaea (Charleston, SC) collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1048
Collection Overview Collection includes papers of the Henrietta Szold and Cecile Rubin Chapters of Young Judaea (Charleston, SC); black and white photograph (1951) from first annual Young Judaea Banquet and Dance; photocopy images of subsequent dances (1952-1953?); issues (1952-1956) of Emes, a publication of the Cecile Rubin Chapter of Young Judaea; and news clippings announcing re-activation of YJ in Charleston (1978) and YJ activities (1981, 1993). Two scrapbooks contain clippings, ephemera, award...
Dates: 1946-1993; Majority of material found within 1946-1956
Found in: Special Collections

Henry T. Zacharias ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0056
Collection Overview

Collection consists of two indexed ledgers (1905-1908; 1909-1910) containing accounts with numerous businesses, organizations, and individuals for construction and general contracting. Accounts represent many notable buildings of Charleston, South Carolina, among them the Confederate Home and College, the Medical University of South Carolina, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, St. Philip's Church, and a number of architecturally significant houses.

Dates: 1905-1910
Found in: Special Collections

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correspondence 28
South Carolina -- History 24
clippings (information artifacts) 22
South Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 20
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 18
photographs 15
minutes (administrative records) 10
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 9
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 8
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina 8
genealogies (histories) 8
lists (document genres) 8
scrapbooks 8
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 7
South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 7
letters (correspondence) 7
Slave records 6
diaries 6
financial records 6
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
South Carolina -- Genealogy 5
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 5
South Carolina -- Social life and customs 5
manuscripts for publication 5
photocopies 5
typescripts 5
African American civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 4
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 4
Charleston (S.C.) 4
Public schools -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 4
Race discrimination -- South Carolina -- History 4
South Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Miscellanea 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 4
journals (accounts) 4
ledgers (account books) 4
legal documents 4
notes (documents) 4
plantation owners 4
printed ephemera 4
African American children -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 3
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African Americans -- History 3
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Charleston Earthquake, S.C., 1886 3
Civil rights demonstrations 3
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Community organizers 3
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 3
Jews -- South Carolina -- History 3
Political action committees -- South Carolina 3
South Carolina -- History -- 19th century 3
South Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Miscellanea 3
South Carolina -- Politics and government 3
administrative records 3
broadsides (notices) 3
family papers 3
inventories 3
lectures 3
maps (documents) 3
poems 3
receipts (financial records) 3
speeches (documents) 3
transcripts 3
African American activists 2
African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
African American women civil rights workers 2
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina 2
African Americans -- Education 2
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina 2
African Americans -- Genealogy 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- To 1863 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- History 2
American newspapers -- Miscellanea 2
Bricklayers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Cigar Factory Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1945-1946 2
Decedents' estates -- South Carolina 2
Education -- 19th century 2
Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 2
Educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Families -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 2
High schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Immigrants -- United States -- History 2
Indians of North America -- South Carolina -- History 2
Jewish college students -- South Carolina -- History 2
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- History 2
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 2
Kosher food -- South Carolina -- History 2
Lawyers 2
News and courier (Charleston, S.C. : Daily) 2
Names
Avery Normal Institute 10
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
College of Charleston 8
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 5
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 4
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 4
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Avery Research Center 3
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 3
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 3
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 3
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 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
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Hampton Institute 2
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 2
Holmes, F. S. (Francis Simmons), 1815-1882 2
Huger family 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 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
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 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
Amistad Research Center 1
Amos-Frazier, Marjorie, 1926-2010 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
Baptist Hill High School 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
Black Lives Matter Charleston (2014-2018) (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Bouffard, Jean Claude 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, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Brown, Miriam M., 1901-2002 1
Buchanan, Wood & Co. (Charleston, S.C.) 1
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