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Civil War era letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-013
Collection Overview

The collection consists of three Civil War era letters. The first letter was written by James E. Wilkins of Virginia to Colonel John Preston on January 23, 1861. In the letter Wilkins pledges his services to South Carolina. The second letter, written September 11, 1862 to John H. Easton, was from a Mr. Helton. In the letter Helton discusses his recovery from injuries suffered during the war. In the third letter, "C.A. Strange" discusses war time conditions to her brother.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1861, 1862, 1864
Found in: Special Collections

William H. Cogswell letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-080
Collection Overview The collection consists of 8 handwritten letters from William Harvey Cogswell to his son Julius E. Cogswell. The letters, which were written between 1887 and 1888, include information on the family printing business and purchasing notes and prices for books. The collection also includes one letter to J.B. Lippincott & Co. (1887) requesting price quotes and discounts on book purchases, and one letter from William H. Morrison (1887). Morrison was a law bookseller and publisher in New York...
Dates: 1887-1888
Found in: Special Collections

Asher D. Cohen papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-054
Collection Overview Most letters (1882-1909) are dated June and July 1889 and deal with Cohen's successful defense of Thomas Ballard McDow, who shot and killed Francis Warrington Dawson during an altercation in McDow's Charleston home. Most are congratulatory letters from writers such as R.N. Goldsmith, Charleston Mayor William A. Courtenay, E. Dreyfous of the New York City Police Department, M.R. Samuels (who comments on Francis Warrington Dawson) and Robert Chisolm (who notes the "divine right of self...
Dates: 1882-1909
Found in: Special Collections

Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1124
Abstract Photographs, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, genealogical materials, land records and certificates, and printed materials relating to the Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas families. The families are related through the marriages of Eleanor H. Cohen to Benjamin Seixas in 1865, Mary Eleanor Seixas to Maurice Emanuel in 1888, and Charlotte Virginia Emanuel to Henry P. Moses in 1912. Of particular note is a diary belonging to Eleanor H. Cohen that documents the arrival of Union General...
Dates: 1806-2005; Majority of material found within 1865-1934
Found in: Special Collections

Collis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1148
Abstract The family papers of the Collis family of Charleston and Kingstree, South Carolina, reflect the experience of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to South Carolina. Materials include migration, marriage, education, and military documents; photographs; clippings; ephemera; and correspondence. Meyer Collis immigrated from Bialystok, Poland, to the United States sometime in the early 20th century; his future wife Lena Schiawitz followed in 1905. They settled in Charleston, where...
Dates: approximately 1900-2008; Majority of material found within 1906-1967
Found in: Special Collections

Colman and Blank families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1111
Abstract

The collection consists of professional and personal correspondence, professional materials, photograph albums and photographs, and other assorted papers of the Colman and Blank families of Charleston, South Carolina. Materials relate to Beverly Isabel Colman, a former managing editor for Schocken Books, and her great-great grandmother Rosa Simmons Blank, Rosa's son, Isadore Blank, and Isadore's son, Edwin J. Blank.

Dates: 1845-1993
Found in: Special Collections

George Ingles Crafts letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-018
Collection Overview

The collection contains five letters between George Ingles Crafts and his cousin Maria Campbell. In the letters Crafts describes his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. One letter is from Campbell. In the letters, Crafts described his trips in great detail. He mentions stopovers in Constantinople, Thebes, Jerusalem, Paris, and other locations.

Dates: 1846-1847
Found in: Special Collections

Charles Deas collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-147
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to the painter Charles Deas and includes correspondence and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

Dates: 1945, 1987
Found in: Special Collections

Charlotte Alston Deas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-146
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to Charlotte Alston Deas and includes a California teaching certificate, obituaries, diploma, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: approximately 1890-1973
Found in: Special Collections

Frances Milward Pogson Wigfall Deas collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-152
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to Frances Milward Pogson Wigfall Deas and includes correspondence, poems, magazines, and photocopies of photographs.

Dates: 1863-1890, undated
Found in: Special Collections

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sketchbooks 6
tape reels 6
tintypes (photographs) 6
wills 6
Family histories 5
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 5
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College of Charleston 19
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 19
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 10
Avery Normal Institute 6
Alston family 5
Charleston Naval Shipyard 5
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Levy family 5
Moses family 5
Alliance for Full Acceptance 4
Avery Research Center 4
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Brith Sholom Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Deas family 4
Finley family 4
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 4
Shulman, Nat, 1914-2000 4
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.) 4
United States. Congress. House 4
Weinberg family 4
Addlestone Hebrew Academy (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Aleph Zadik Aleph 3
Aleph Zadik Aleph. Charleston Chapter 3
Alterman, Jennet Robinson 3
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 3
Banov family 3
Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Blamyer family 3
Blamyre family 3
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 3
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 3
Eastman, Margaret Middleton Rivers 3
Edison, Robert 3
Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Freemasons 3
I.M. Pearlstine & Sons (S.C.) 3
Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina 3
Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. Samuel D. Turtletaub Post 237 (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Keyserling, Harriet, 1922-2010 3
Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987 3
Moïse family 3
Pogson family 3
Raisin, Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon), 1878-1946 3
Raisin, Rachel M. 3
Rivers, L. Mendel (Lucius Mendel), 1905-1970 3
Robinson family 3
Smith family 3
Southern Jewish Historical Society (U.S.) 3
Tobias, Thomas J. 3
United States. Navy 3
Abell family 2
Altman family 2
Amistad Research Center 2
Anderson, Dorothy Middleton 2
Ashley Hall (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 2
B'nai B'rith 2
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League 2
B'nai B'rith. Dan Lodge, No. 593 2
Bachman, John, 1790-1874 2
Bishop England High School (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Bonner, Vance 2
Brown family 2
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 2
Butwin, Frances 2
Butwin, Joseph (Joseph Mazo), 1943- 2
Butwin, Julius, -1945 2
Byrd, George A. 2
Byrd, Pierrine Smith, 1899-1994 2
Charleston Hebrew Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Charleston Jewish Welfare Fund 2
Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce 2
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 2
Clemson University 2
Coastal Community Foundation 2
Cohen family 2
College of Charleston. Alumni Association 2
Confederate States of America. Army 2
Courtenay, William Ashmead, 1831-1908 2
D'Ancona family 2
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 2
Drayton family 2
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 2
Edward's, Inc. (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 2
Garfinkel family 2
Grass Roots League, Inc. 2
Greenhill, Marsha Silver 2
Halsey McCallum Resources 2
Halsey, William, 1915-1999 2
Harby family 2
Harby, Lee Cohen, 1849-1918 2
Harleston family 2
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 2
Hirsch family 2
Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 2
Keyserling family 2
Keyserling, Herbert, 1915-2000 2
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