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George Detwiler Burges collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0095
Abstract

George Detwiler Burges graduated from the College of Charleston in 1938. He served as a B-17 pilot during World War II and was killed in action in 1944. This collection consists of Burges' personal papers, letters, military records, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, and military decorations including the Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.

Dates: 1929-1944
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

Edward von Siebold Dingle collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0006
Abstract The collection consists of biographical materials, watercolors, etchings, color prints, photographs, and correspondence of Edward von Siebold Dingle, artist and ornithologist. The majority of the collection consists of Dingle's watercolor paintings of seabirds, shorebirds, wading birds, warblers, sparrows, thrushes, and other bird species on board and paper as well as landscapes and wild flower studies. Also included are letters to Dingle from his wife and mother, and assorted photographs of...
Dates: 1816-approximately 1970; Majority of material found within 1913-1925
Found in: Special Collections

Mickey Dorsey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-046
Abstract

The collection consists of letters, photographs, negatives, and other papers of Mickey Dorsey, an American soldier with the 71st Infantry Division, who participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp in Austria. Photographs and negatives taken by Joe Daurer, the photographer for Dorsey's unit, show victims and survivors in the camp.

Dates: 1944-1946, 1999
Found in: Special Collections

Isabel Cohen Doud collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-090
Collection Overview

A letter from William A. Courtenay, Mayor of Charleston from 1879-1887, to Miss Cohen thanking her for the copy of her graduating essay which her father gave to him. Mayor Courtenay presented Miss Cohen with a copy of the book Charleston, South Carolina in 1883. Boston: Heliotype Printing Company, 1883. A copy of Isabel Cohen's graduating composition "Circumstances" dated June 11, 1885. Isabel Cohen Doud's two oil paintings-a floral arrangement and a Roman landscape.

Dates: 1884-1930
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

Ehrich, Levi, and Weinberg families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1170
Abstract

Papers consist of a scrapbook of William S. Ehrich's World War I letters and assorted photographs of the Ehrich, Levi, and Weinberg families. Also included are photocopies of Ehrich's scrapbook and the family photographs.

Dates: 1917-1946
Found in: Special Collections

Joseph Fromberg letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-055
Collection Overview Carbon typescript letter, dated August 10, 1948. Fromberg gives a lengthy history of himself and his position in the state. He then defends Judge J. Waties Waring for his recent decision to open up the Democratic Primary to African Americans, noting that he may not agree with Waring but defends his right to interpret the law. Fromberg objects to suggestions for actions made by Dorn, saying that such methods will undermine and destroy the government; he links Dorn to bigots and raises the...
Dates: 1948
Found in: Special Collections

Lewis R. Gibbes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0020
Abstract Papers of Lewis R. Gibbes, Professor of mathematics, astronomy, and physics at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1838-1892. Papers include materials relating to Gibbes' studies in France, assorted obituaries, eulogies, and memorials, his published papers and newspaper articles (collected into several scrapbooks) on his scientific work and other topics, assorted Elliott Society of Natural History materials, astronomical charts and calculations, assorted cartes de...
Dates: 1800s-1893, 1937
Found in: Special Collections

Harold and Herman Goldman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1182
Abstract

Assorted personal papers of traveling salesmen and Freemasons Harold and Herman Goldman of Jellico, Tennessee.

Dates: approximately 1915-1943
Found in: Special Collections

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Cohen, McDuff, 1840-1909 1
Colleton, John, 1907-1993 1
Conference on Economic Progress (U.S.) 1
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Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897 1
Daurer, Joe, 1909-1998 1
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Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 1
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Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 1
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, S.C.) 1
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Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894 1
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Green, Otis J., Mrs. (Mary) 1
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Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) 1
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