Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 15
H. A. DeCosta, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1084
Abstract
Herbert A. DeCosta, Jr. (1923-2008) was a renowned African American architect and contractor based in Charleston, South Carolina. While he served as president of the H. A. DeCosta Company, the company worked on the construction and renovations of numerous churches, apartment complexes, schools, and residences, including some of the most architecturally significant houses in Charleston. The DeCosta Company also did much of the renovation and preservation work for Historic Charleston...
Dates:
1854-2009
John Henry Dick collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0065
Collection Overview
Contents: Dick's papers consist primarily of (I) paintings and drawings, (II) manuscripts of his writings, (III) photographs, (IV) correspondence, (V) topical files, and (VI) artifacts:
I. Paintings and Drawings
Dick's artwork includes 35 framed paintings, approx. 200 mounted paintings, and approx. 500 pen-and-ink drawings. Most of the paintings and drawings were prepared for publication on the basis of field observations, color photographs taken with telephoto lenses, and bird skins which...
Dates:
ca. 1912-1995
Found in:
Special Collections
Drayton papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0152
Abstract
Diaries, ledgers, correspondence, inventories, plats, sketches, architectural drawings of John Drayton, Charles Drayton I-III, James Glen, Charlotta Drayton, Mary Middleton Drayton and others, relating mainly to affairs at Drayton Hall and other family plantations. Collection also includes artwork, reflections on eighteenth century literature, deeds, newspaper clippings and photographs.
Dates:
1701-2004
Found in:
Special Collections
Mary Jo Smith Fetzer papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0164
Abstract
The collection consists of the papers of Mary Jo Smith Fetzer, graphic artist and founding staff member of WCIV-TV in Charleston, South Carolina. The papers include photographs, correspondence, and artwork from Fetzer’s personal and professional life and materials belonging to her partner, M.E. Van Dyke.
Dates:
circa 1870s-2006; Majority of material found within 1943-2006
Found in:
Special Collections
William Halsey papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0067
Abstract
Biographical materials, artwork, writings, slides and photographs, printed materials, correspondence, working files, and other papers of artist, author, and teacher William Halsey. Also included are a variety of materials relating to the Halsey and Loeb families as well as writings and numerous slide images from his travels through Mexico, Central America, Europe, North Africa, the South Pacific, and the Galapagos.
Dates:
1874-2006
Found in:
Special Collections
Aubrey Hancock and William A. Fontaine Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0227
Abstract
Papers document the professional and personal lives of Aubrey Hancock and William A. Fontaine, Jr. The collection includes business records, personal and miscellaneous correspondence, documentation of their properties, guest books, and assorted ephemera on Charleston, social, and local LGBTQ life.
Dates:
1850-2020; Majority of material found within 1935-2002
Found in:
Special Collections
Keyserling family papers - Part II
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1049b
Abstract
Correspondence, school records, photographs, writings, financial records, home movies, clippings, and other materials of the Keyserling family of Beaufort, South Carolina. Materials relate to William Keyserling; his wife Jennie Hyman Keyserling; Leon Keyserling, American economist and lawyer; Herbert Keyserling, Beaufort physician; Harriet Hirschfeld Keyserling, Beaufort state representative and wife of Herbert Keyserling; and their children, Judith Keyserling, Billy Keyserling, Beth...
Dates:
1900-2010
Found in:
Special Collections
Corrie McCallum papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0106
Abstract
Biographical materials, sketchbooks, writings, photographs, negatives, slides, exhibition materials, printed materials, correspondence, working files, and index card files of Charleston, South Carolina artist Corrie McCallum. Materials date from 1894 to 2009 and document her career as an artist, particularly her involvement in solo, joint, and group exhibitions, but also her travels, with fellow artist and husband William Halsey, in Africa, Asia, Morocco, Europe, South America, Central...
Dates:
1894-2009
Found in:
Special Collections
Middleton family artwork
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0001
Abstract
Collection consists of assorted architectural drawings, ink sketches, pencil drawings, and watercolors attributed to John Izard Middleton, Henry Middleton, and Thomas Walker as well as several sketches of additions to Middleton Place, the family seat located along the Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina.
Dates:
1809-1867
Found in:
Special Collections
Photographs and illustrations for Gems in a Crown
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0069
Collection Overview
The photographs and illustrations were taken for and most were included in: Lightsey, Harry M. Jr. Gems in a crown: the people and places of the College of Charleston, University of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston, S.C. : College of Charleston Foundation, 1993. The historic photographs that were borrowed from Special Collections for use in the book were refiled in their former locations. Tommy Thompson, a professional photographer in Atlanta, Georgia, made 42 color transparencies and...
Dates:
1991-1993
Found in:
Special Collections
Filtered By
- Subject: drawings (visual works) X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Repository
- Special Collections 14
- Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 1
- Subject
- drawings (visual works) 10
- black-and-white photographs 7
- clippings (information artifacts) 7
- color photographs 7
- correspondence 6
- architectural drawings (visual works) 5
- sketches 5
- color slides 4
- sketchbooks 4
- slides (photographs) 4
- Charleston (S.C.) 3
- diaries 3
- letters (correspondence) 3
- manuscripts (documents) 3
- photograph albums 3
- photographs 3
- Africa 2
- Architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- Artists -- South Carolina 2
- DVDs 2
- Modernism (Art) -- South Carolina 2
- Mural painting and decoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
- blueprints (reprographic copies) 2
- exhibition catalogs 2
- files (document groupings) 2
- notes (documents) 2
- plats (maps) 2
- printed materials (object genre) 2
- school records 2
- scrapbooks 2
- travel sketches 2
- watercolors (paintings) 2
- Actors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Africa -- Description and travel 1
- African American architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American business enterprises -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Drayton Hall -- History 1
- Antarctica 1
- Architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Architectural design -- Ohio -- Akron 1
- Architectural design -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Architecture -- Designs and plans 1
- Architecture -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 19th Century 1
- Art, American -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
- Art, American -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
- Art, Modern -- 20th century 1
- Artists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Arts -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
- Ashley River Bridge (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Asia 1
- Athens (Ga.) 1
- Beaufort (S.C.) 1
- Bed and breakfast accommodations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Birds 1
- Bisexual artists -- United States 1
- Bisexual authors -- South Carolina 1
- Bisexuals' writings, American 1
- Bookstores -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Bridges -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Design and construction 1
- Businessmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
- Central America 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Slave Insurrection, 1822 1
- Charleston County (S.C.) -- History 1
- Charleston District (S.C.) -- History 1
- Children's television programs -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Contractors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Cookbooks 1
- Cooking -- South Carolina 1
- Cooking, American -- Southern style 1
- Cooking, American -- Southern style -- History 1
- Dixie Plantation (S.C.) 1
- Drawing, American -- 20th century 1
- Drawing, American -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
- Drayton Hall (S.C.) -- History 1
- Economists -- United States 1
- Europe 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Food writers -- South Carolina 1
- Food writing -- Southern States 1
- Galapagos Islands 1
- Gay artists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Gay artists -- United States 1
- Gay authors -- South Carolina 1
- Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States 1
- Gay couples -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Gay men, White -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Gays -- Social life and customs 1
- Gays' writings, American 1
- Genoa (Italy) -- Description and travel 1
- Gone with the wind (Motion picture : 1939) 1
- Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Historic preservation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Hospitality industry -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- India 1
- Interior decorators -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Interior decorators -- South Carolina -- Walterboro 1 + ∧ less
- Language
- Latin 1
- Portuguese 1
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Names
- Halsey McCallum Resources 2
- Halsey, William, 1915-1999 2
- McCallum, Corrie, 1914-2009 2
- Ali, Sálim, 1896-1987 1
- B-52's (Musical group) 1
- Brown, Kent, 1953-2003 1
- Caffey family 1
- Coastal Community Foundation 1
- College of Charleston 1
- Craft family 1
- Craft, Ellen 1
- Craft, William 1
- Crump family 1
- Curtis, Patricia 1
- DeCosta family 1
- DeCosta, Emily, 1923-2011 1
- DeCosta, Herbert A., Jr., 1923-2008 1
- DeCosta, Herbert A., Sr., 1894-1960 1
- Dick, John Henry, 1919-1995 1
- Downey, Sydney, 1905- 1
- Drayton family 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
- Ferguson, David A. 1
- Fetzer, Mary Jo Smith, 1935-2009 1
- Fontaine, William A. (William Alvin), 1920-2005 1
- Fontaine-Hancock Interiors 1
- Fraser, Mary Edna 1
- Garrity, Devin A. 1
- Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
- H. A. DeCosta Company 1
- HADCO Realty Company 1
- Halsey family 1
- Halsey, Ashley, 1879-1971 1
- Halsey, Eleanor Rose Loeb, 1883-1968 1
- Hancock (Family : Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019) 1
- Hancock, Aubrey, 1929-2019 1
- Hess, Karen 1
- Higgins family 1
- Keyserling family 1
- Keyserling, Harriet, 1922-2010 1
- Keyserling, Herbert, 1915-2000 1
- Keyserling, Jennie Hyman, 1881-1935 1
- Keyserling, Judith, 1946-2012 1
- Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987 1
- Keyserling, Paul 1
- Keyserling, William 1
- Keyserling, William, 1869-1951 1
- King, Ben F. 1
- Kinlaw family 1
- Kramer, Beth Keyserling, 1952- 1
- Lapham, Samuel, 1892-1972 1
- Lightsey, Harry M. 1
- Loeb family 1
- Loeb, Jacob H., 1846-1893 1
- Manigault, Charlotte Drayton, 1781-1855 1
- Memminger High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Middleton family 1
- Middleton, Henry, 1851-1932 1
- Middleton, John Izard, 1785-1849 1
- Midway Company, Inc. 1
- Nedzi, Janusz 1
- Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996 1
- Pollitzer, Mabel, 1885-1979 1
- Polzois, James, 1939-2018 1
- Rhett family 1
- Rhett, Alicia, 1915-2014 1
- Richardson, Terry R. 1
- Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001 1
- Robinson, Emmett Edward, 1914- 1
- Sauter family 1
- Simmons, Dawn Langley 1
- Simons & Lapham 1
- Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 1
- Spencer family 1
- Sprunt, Alexander, 1898-1973 1
- St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Taylor, John Martin, 1949- 1
- Thompson, Tommy L. 1
- Van Dyke, M. E. 1
- Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822 1
- Villa de la Fontaine (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- WCIV (Television station : Charleston, S.C.) 1
- Walker, Thomas 1 + ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more