Showing Collections: 1 - 3 of 3
Gadsden Funeral Home records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1137
Abstract
The Gadsden Funeral Home was founded in 1902 by Eugene Gadsden (1866-1928) as the Eugene Gadsden Company. It was one of the first funeral homes for African Americans in Charleston. The Gadsden Funeral Home was operated and passed down through the family for over a century until it closed in 2005.The Gadsden Funeral Home records consist of three series documenting the history of the Gadsden/Duncan family, the Gadsden Funeral Home, and numerous affiliations. The collection consists...
Dates:
1892-2010; Majority of material found within 1921-1986
St. Andrew's Society of Charleston records
Collection
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
Found in:
Special Collections
Zion-Olivet Presbyterian Church records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1030
Abstract
Zion-Olivet formed in 1959 when two African American congregations in Charleston. S.C., Zion and Olivet, merged. The records in the collection are divided into three main sections, Zion Presbyterian Church, Olivet Presbyterian church and Zion-Olivet Presbyterian church records with numerous series which finacial documents, Kindergarten/Child Child Center, Church members and students, Women's Associations, United Presbyterian Men of Zion-Olivet, and the Presbyterian Church USA/Synod of the...
Dates:
1854-1991, undated
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Repository
- Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 2
- Special Collections 1
- Subject
- African American banks -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American business enterprises -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American women in church work 1
- African American women--Religious life 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- Burial records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Charities -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Charleston (S.C.) 1
- Child care 1
- Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Funeral homes -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Handbooks and manuals 1
- Kindergarten 1
- Societies -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Undertakers and undertaking -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- account books 1
- administrative records 1
- black-and-white prints (prints on paper) 1
- board games (game sets) 1
- books 1
- cashbooks 1
- certificates 1
- charters 1
- correspondence 1
- diplomas 1
- elevations (orthographic projections) 1
- financial records 1
- journals (accounts) 1
- licenses 1
- minute books 1
- minutes (administrative records) 1
- periodicals 1
- photocopies 1
- posters 1
- printing plates 1
- sheet music 1
- wood blocks (printing blocks) 1 + ∧ less
- Names
- Duncan, Eugene, 1905-1969 1
- Eugene Gadsden Company (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Gadsden Funeral Home (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Gadsden, Eugene, 1866-1928 1
- Gadson family 1
- Johnson, Eugenia Duncan, 1931- 1
- St. Andrew's Society of Charleston, South Carolina 1
- Voorhees College 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more