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Illuminated manuscript pages

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-014
Collection Overview These manuscripts are from the Missale Romanum and contain pages 74 and 81. Page 74 gives the latter part of the Communion Prayer from the service for Tuesday in Holy Week, with the scriptures from Psalm 68: 13-14: "But as for me, my prayer is to Thee, O Lord; for the time of Thy good pleasure, O God, in the multitude of Thy mercy." On the following page, the service for Wednesday in Holy Week begins with the Introit from Philippians II: 10, 8 and 11: "In the name of Jesus let every knee...
Dates: 15th century or 16th century

Kalushiner Society minute book

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss 1149
Abstract

A handwritten minute book of the Kalushiner Society of Charleston, South Carolina, from October 1927 through December 1936, mostly in Yiddish with some English. The Independent Kalushiner Society was a mutual aid society founded by Charleston residents who had immigrated from the shtetl of Kaluszyn in Poland. The society was founded in 1921 and provided members with benefits like no-interest loans, assistance when ill, and group insurance rates.

Dates: 1927-1936

Keyserling family papers - Part I

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1049a
Collection Overview Part I (Mss 1049a) is the first accession of the Keyserling family papers. It includes Keyserling genealogical information, ephemera and family news clippings; material related to Leon Keyserling's political career (essays, clippings, speeches.) Correspondence includes letters between William Keyserling (WK) and Jennie H. Keyserling (JK) 1903-1935; WK and Leon Keyserling, 1908-1949; WK and Beth Keyserling Rosenfarb, 1911-1951; WK and Rosalyn Keyserling Schreiber, 1911-1944; WK and Herbert...
Dates: 1890-1980; Majority of material found within 1910-1951

Henry Laurens account book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0027
Collection Overview Pages are missing or damaged. Business and personal accounts (1766 Sept.-1767 Dec., 1768 Feb.-1773 May, 1773 Aug.-Sept.) kept for Henry Laurens. Accounts are with individuals and companies for goods (primarily general merchandise) and services (including commissions). Several include the sale of individual slaves. A number of entries are for New Hope, Mepkin, Broton [Broughton] Island, Wambaw, and Wright's Savannah plantations. Other accounts include expenses for improvements made to brick...
Dates: 1766-1773

Lazarus and Hirsch families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1018
Abstract This collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, pins, a textile, legal documents, albums, and other items relating to Jane Lazarus Raisin and the Lazarus and Hirsch families of Charleston, as well as the related Hart, Levy, Cohen, Mordecai, Harby, De Lyon, De La Motta, and Raisin families. Collection includes numerous early photographs. Materials also pertain to Charleston's Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) synagogue and Jewish life in Charleston and South Carolina in the...
Dates: 1776, 1818-2005

Charlotte A. Myers collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0213
Abstract The collection contains correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Charlotte A. Myers’ divorce from literary critic and poet Rufus Wilmot Griswold. Materials also relate to Caroline Griswold, a writer and Griswold’s daughter from his first marriage, who was raised by Myers. There are also daguerreotype portraits of Myers and Caroline Griswold and a commonplace book assembled by Myers. The papers also cover correspondence between Griswold’s grandchildren and Joy Bayless, author of the...
Dates: 1818-1943

Portuguese Brit Milah and Shechita record book

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss 1150
Abstract

Portuguese Brit Milah and Shechita record book spanning the years 1700 to 1842 though probably created at multiple dates by multiple individuals. Book contains birth and death records, rules about Shechita, and circumcision records of a Sephardic community in the West Indies, most likely Curaçao.

Dates: 1700-1842

J.N. Robson & Son records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0040
Abstract

Account books, ledgers, letterpress copybooks, and receipts for J.N. Robson & Son, who were Charleston, South Carolina commission merchants and wholesale and retail dealers in hay, grain, and groceries.

Dates: 1861-1902

Judith Shanks and Henry A. Alexander research files

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1153
Abstract Research files of Judith Alexander Weil Shanks, including primary sources created or compiled by her uncle Henry A. Alexander, articles, copies of census records, family trees, research notes, and photographs. Materials relate primarily to Rebecca I. Moses and several of her relations in the Solomons, Joseph, and Alexander families, particularly Eleanor Solomons, Charlotte Joseph, and Rebecca E. Alexander. Also includes drafts of Old Family Things: An Affectionate...
Dates: 1806-2009; Majority of material found within 1998-2009

Helene Monowitz Silberberg collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-051
Abstract

The collection consists of a three-volume book commemorating Jewish life in Vilna, Lithuania, coins used in the Warsaw ghetto, and a Warsaw ghetto memorial scarf.

Dates: 1943-1974

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Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
Alexander, Henry A. (Henry Aaron), 1874-1967 1
Alexander, Rebecca Ella Solomons, 1854-1938 1
Alexander, Saul, 1884-1952 1
Altman family 1
Altman, Dora, 1896-1999 1
Bank of Charleston 1
Bank of Liverpool 1
Baruch family 1
Baruch, Arline Lennox, 1893-1995 1
Baruch, Hartwig Nathaniel, Jr., 1918-1997 1
Baruch, Hartwig Nathaniel, Sr., 1868-1953 1
Bayless, Joy 1
Benbassat family 1
Benbassat, Dan 1
Benbassat, Jacques, 1929-2010 1
Beth Israel Congregation (Beaufort, S.C.) 1
Beth Israel Congregation (Florence, S.C.) 1
Book Basement (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown family 1
Byrd, Suzanne 1
Catholic Church 1
Charleston Jewish Social Services (S.C.) 1
Chisolm's Rice Mill (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Cohen family 1
Columbia University 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.) 1
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 1
Dale Farms Corporation (Beaufort, S.C.) 1
De La Motta family 1
De Lyon family 1
Draisen, David 1
Drayton, Carolus 1
Drayton, Charles Henry, 1847-1915 1
Drayton, Charles, 1785-1844 1
Drayton, Charles, 1814-1852 1
Drayton, Charlotta D., 1884-1969 1
Drayton, James Shoolbred, 1820-1867 1
Drayton, John, 1831-1912 1
Drayton, John, active 1777 1
Drayton, Mary Middleton Shoolbred, 1794-1855 1
Drayton, Thomas Henry Middleton, 1828-1867 1
Drayton, William Henry, 1742-1779 1
Elfe family 1
Fallon family 1
Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Feuerstein family 1
Feuerstein, Adela 1
Fontaine, William A. (William Alvin), 1920-2005 1
Fontaine-Hancock Interiors 1
Freemasons 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Grimké family 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Grimké, Frederick, 1791-1863 1
Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819 1
Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Griswold, M. Caroline 1
Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857 1
Hancock (Family : Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019) 1
Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019 1
Harby, Isaac, 1788-1828 1
Harrelson, Alice Moore 1
Hart family 1
Hatch, Frank S. 1
Hebrew Benevolent Association (Florence, S.C.) 1
Hebrew Orphan Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hirsch (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hirsch family 1
Hirsch, Isaac Willard, 1844-1925 1
Hirsch, Willard Newman, 1905-1982 1
Hirschfeld family 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Hunter, Dard, 1883-1966 1
J.N. Robson and Son (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jackson, Marty 1
Joseph, Charlotte, 1803-1883 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Kalushiner Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Karesh, Rosalyn Furchgott 1
Keyserling family 1
Keyserling, Harriet, 1922-2010 1
Keyserling, Herbert, 1915-2000 1
Keyserling, Jennie Hyman, 1881-1935 1
Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987 1
Keyserling, William, 1869-1951 1
Kornblut, Harold 1
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 1
Lazar family 1
Lazarus (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Lennox family 1
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