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1964 Democratic National Convention program

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-099
Dates: 1964

A factor's account book

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Identifier: Mss 0073
Collection Overview

The account book contains information about transactions of an unknown merchant in Charleston, S.C. The book details the sale of cotton, rice, and other commodities. It also provides information about the sale of goods and trade with ships and other merchants who operated in Charleston. The account book is a detailed representation of these transactions, but it does not name the factor or the company who it belonged to. No information on the origin of the account book is available.

Dates: 1861-1864

Sigmund Abeles papers

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Identifier: Mss 1164
Abstract

The papers of figurative artist and educator Sigmund Abeles include biographical information, correspondence, and information about his art career.

Dates: 1900-2023; Majority of material found within 1980-2017

Nathan S. Addlestone papers

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Identifier: Mss 1127
Abstract

Scrapbooks, yearbooks, clippings, programs, newsletters, and reports pertaining to Nathan Addlestone, a Charleston businessman who founded several scrap metal businesses, including Steelmet, Incorporated and Addlestone International Corporation. He was also very active in philanthropy, particularly pertaining to education.

Dates: circa 1910-2009

William Martin Aiken papers

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Identifier: Mss 0002
Abstract

Sketchbooks, photographs, clippings and other professional papers of Charleston born architect William Martin Aiken. Materials relate to Aiken's student and professional work as an architect in Boston, Massachusetts, and Cincinnati, Ohio, and as the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. Materials also relate to homes designed by Aiken as well as buildings designed by the New York City architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White.

Dates: 1878-1956

Isaac Auld collection

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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

"B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui: Talk Presented at Dinner Meeting of the Robert Wilson Medical History Club"

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Identifier: Mss 1034-063
Collection Overview

Paper on B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui presented by Mary S. Miller on May 1, 2003 at a dinner meeting of the Robert Wilson Medical History Club. The paper details Ottolengui's life and work as an author and dentist and includes photocopies of: photographs taken by Ottolengui; images of Dr. Fone's Dental Hygiene School; excerpts from Items of interest, a dental journal edited by Ottolengui; a portrait of Ottolengui; and images of Ottolengui's dental office and dental cabinet.

Dates: 2003

Bacot family papers

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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

Bank of the United States stock indentures

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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

Baruch and Lennox families photographs and papers

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Identifier: Mss 1110
Abstract

The collection consists of family photographs and photograph albums, scrapbooks, and assorted papers of the Baruch family of Camden, South Carolina, and New York City, and the Lennox family of Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Materials primarily relate to Hartwig Nathaniel Baruch Sr., stage actor and member of the New York stock exchange, his wife, Arline Lennox Baruch, and their son, Hartwig Nathaniel Baruch Jr.

Dates: 1889-1976

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Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 3
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Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987 3
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 3
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 3
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Rivers, L. Mendel (Lucius Mendel), 1905-1970 3
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Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 2
Allen University 2
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Anderson, Dorothy Middleton 2
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 2
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Frazier, Herb, 1950- 2
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Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 2
Howard University 2
Huger family 2
International Longshoremen's Association 2
International Longshoremen's Association. Local 1422 (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 2
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
Keyserling family 2
Keyserling, Herbert, 1915-2000 2
Keyserling, Jennie Hyman, 1881-1935 2
Keyserling, William 2
Keyserling, William, 1869-1951 2
Levy family 2
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 2
McCallum, Corrie, 1914-2009 2
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Medical University of South Carolina 2
Mickey family 2
Middleton family 2
Moses family 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 2
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Pullman Company 2
Rivers, Lucius Mendel, Jr. 2
Rivers, Margaret Middleton 2
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 2
South Carolina State University 2
United States (Title of work: Constitution.) 2
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services 2
Waring, Elizabeth 2
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 2
Wilkinson family 2
Young Women's Christian Associations. Charleston, S.C 2
A.B. Kirschbaum Co. 1
Abeles, Sigmund, 1934- 1
Abell family 1
Addlestone International Corporation 1
Addlestone, Marlene Alfred 1
Addlestone, Nathan S., 1913-2001 1
Ahlem (Concentration camp) 1
Aiken, William Martin, 1855-1908 1
Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943- 1
All-African People's Revolutionary Party 1
Allen, William Francis, 1830-1889 1
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Anderson, Eliza Levy, 1794-1839 1
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Auld, Isaac, 1770-1826 1
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