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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

St. Andrew's Society of Charleston records

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Identifier: Mss 0144
Abstract

This collection includes administrative, financial, and membership records, records of charitable assistance, and other materials of the St. Andrew's Society of Charleston. Records document the social and benevolent activities of the St. Andrew's Society between the years 1729 to 2001.

Dates: 1729-2001

St. John's Lutheran Church records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0041
Abstract

Typewritten transcriptions of original records of the St. John's Lutheran Church of Charleston, South Carolina, from 1742 to 1931. Transcriptions were part of two Federal Works Progress Administration projects carried out from 1935 through 1937 and sponsored by the College of Charleston.

Dates: 1742-1931

Ethel Jorgensen Stafford papers

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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

Temple Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) records

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Identifier: Mss 1083
Abstract

Records of Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Sumter, South Carolina. Materials document the administrative, financial, social, educational, charitable, and spiritual activities of the congregation and its members. Also included are materials documenting prominent Jewish individuals and families of Sumter, including Penina Moïse and the Moses family.

Dates: 1789-2012; Majority of material found within 1920-1996

War ration book

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Identifier: Mss 0034-119
Collection Overview

This collection consists of a war ration book issued to Florence S. Reid, Charleston, S.C.

Dates: 1943

West Point Rice Mill Company records

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Identifier: Mss 0051
Abstract Collection consists of the records of the West Point Rice Mill Company, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1885 to 1925. Records include correspondence and legal documents concerning transfers of stock related to estates and to the decrease of capital stock, a letterpress copybook containing letters primarily concerning the accounts of individuals and corporations, daybooks, ledgers, and cashbooks. Also included are checks, check stubs, canceled checks for dividends and liquidation, and...
Dates: 1885-1925

Weston family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0055
Collection Overview Papers consist of Plowden Weston's business ledger (2 volumes), a plantation journal, and meterorological records for All Saints Parish, South Carolina. Ledger (1764-1769) contains accounts with numerous individuals and several estates of individuals. The ledger was also used as a plantation journal and contains entries and accounts (1830-1847, 1851, 1855) pertaining to Weston family plantations. Plantation journal (1802-1817) contains primarily accounts for the purchase of supplies for...
Dates: 1764-1855

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

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Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

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Abeles, Sigmund, 1934- 1
Abell family 1
Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Aleph Zadik Aleph. Charleston Chapter 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
Avery Normal Institute 1
Baldwin, Michael 1
Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Bank of Charleston 1
Bank of Liverpool 1
Banov family 1
Banov, Charles H., 1930- 1
Banov, Nancy Leopold, 1932- 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 (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Beth Israel Congregation (Beaufort, S.C.) 1
Beth Israel Congregation (Florence, S.C.) 1
Bnei Zion (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Book Basement (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown family 1
Byrd, Suzanne 1
Catholic Church 1
Charleston Jewish Social Services (S.C.) 1
Charleston Zionist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Chisolm's Rice Mill (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Cohen family 1
Colcock, William Ferguson, 1804-1889 1
Columbia University 1
Confederate Home and College (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Duncan, Eugene, 1905-1964 1
Elfe family 1
Elias, Rebecca, 1839-1896 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Epps (Family : Conway, S.C.) 1
Epps family 1
Eugene Gadsden Company (Charleston, S.C.) 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
Gadsden Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Gadsden, Eugene, 1866-1928 1
Gadson family 1
Gaillard & Mazyck 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Goldman, Joseph 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
Gwara, Scott, 1962- 1
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Charleston Chapter 1
Hancock (Family : Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019) 1
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