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Reeves van Hettinga papers

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Identifier: Mss 0210
Abstract Papers of Reeves van Hettinga, French-style chef and trompe l’oeil artist from 1860 to 2018. He spent most of his adult life in New York City before retiring to Charleston, South Carolina. The collection includes biographical materials, art, professional papers and photographs and genealogical materials documenting the van Hettinga and Jones families. There are also materials relating to his brother William, artist and founder of the Charleston newspaper Poor...
Dates: 1860-2018
Found in: Special Collections

Gene Waddell stereograph collection of rice and cotton cultivation

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Identifier: Mss 0034-186
Abstract Collection consists of twelve stereographs of rice and cotton cultivation in South Carolina (including Georgetown, South Carolina); Savannah, Georgia; Louisiana; and Mississippi, compiled by Gene Waddell. A majority of the stereographs were produced by the Keystone View Company but the collection also includes stereographs produced by Underwood & Underwood, the Kilburn Brothers, and American Views. Stereograph images depict African Americans plowing, hoeing and flooding rice fields,...
Dates: 1879, 1904-1905
Found in: Special Collections

Bernard Warshaw Holocaust atrocity photographs

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Identifier: Mss 1065-027
Abstract

The collection consists of approximately 70 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken in Dachau concentration camp by Bernard Warshaw, a captain in the U.S. Army. Photographs show bodies of victims on the grounds and outside the crematorium.

Dates: 1942-1945, circa 2000
Found in: Special Collections

Waterfront design study

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Identifier: Mss 0099
Collection Overview This is an oversized scrapbook of photographs and clippings about the design of waterfronts for cities worldwide. It includes 20 professionally made 8x10 photographs and several dozen pages of clippings. The cities best represented are Paris (4), Havanna (3), and Nice (2). Other cities represented by one photograph each are Cannes, Chicago, Cologne, Hamburg, Leningrad, Moscow, Naples, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, and San Sabastain (Spain). The cities represented by the clippings from...
Dates: 1929
Found in: Special Collections

We Are Family (WAF) records

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Identifier: Mss 0212
Abstract

Board meeting files, financial records, strategic planning files, correspondence, event files, resource files, and promotional materials documenting the activities of We Are Family (WAF), a North Charleston, South Carolina-based nonprofit organization that provides support, resources, and leadership development opportunities to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex (LGBTQI) and straight ally youth.

Dates: 1992-2015
Found in: Special Collections

Weinberg and Moses family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1135
Abstract Photographs, letters, and clippings relating to the Weinberg and Moses families of Manning, South Carolina. The majority of the collection consists of photographs, primarily of the Weinberg family, in particular Flora Moses Weinberg and two of her children, Jacob Albert Weinberg Jr. and Rosalie Virginia Weinberg, and also includes a number of images featuring other members of the extended family. It also contains letters from Andrew Jackson Moses, Perry Moses, and Perry Moses Jr. to various...
Dates: 1838-2013
Found in: Special Collections

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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

G. Theodore Wichmann papers

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Identifier: Mss 0075
Abstract

Theodore Wichmann (1886-1966) founded the Charleston Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and taught music lessons in Charleston, South Carolina. This collection includes Wichmann's writings on Mozart, Bizet, Rossini, Beethoven, and Ambroise Thomas, printed programs, and business and personal correspondence for the Orchestra and Wichmann's school music lessons.

Dates: 1904-1966
Found in: Special Collections

Williams family papers

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Identifier: Mss 1017
Abstract The majority of the collection consists of materials related to two memoirs written by Arthur V. Williams, Tales of Charleston 1930s, describing his childhood growing up in Charleston in the 1930s, and Tales of Clemson 1936-1940, on his four years at Clemson University prior to World War II. The collection also contains photographs of the Williams family of Charleston, South Carolina, primarily featuring Arthur V. Williams...
Dates: 1882-2004; Majority of material found within 1936-2004
Found in: Special Collections

Eola Willis Cuban photograph collection

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Identifier: Mss 0124
Abstract

Collection consists of 37 black and white mounted photographs collected by artist Eola Willis, taken mostly in Havana, Cuba around the time of the Spanish-American War (1898) and after.

Dates: circa 1895-1910
Found in: Special Collections

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Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 11
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 10
United States. Army 10
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Levy family 6
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 5
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 5
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Alston family 4
Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Charleston Naval Shipyard 4
Cohen family 4
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Raisin, Rachel M. 4
Rubens family 4
Weinberg family 4
Addlestone Hebrew Academy (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Alterman, Jennet Robinson 3
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 3
Brith Sholom Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 3
College of Charleston. Alumni Association 3
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 3
Dachau (Concentration camp) 3
Deas family 3
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America 3
Harby family 3
I.M. Pearlstine & Sons (S.C.) 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
Mazo family 3
Moïse family 3
Rosen family 3
Rosenberg family 3
Rosenberg, Abraham, 1859-1920 3
Solomon family 3
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.) 3
United States. Navy 3
Winstock family 3
Aleph Zadik Aleph 2
Alliance for Full Acceptance 2
Altman family 2
Anderson, Dorothy Middleton 2
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 2
Avery Research Center 2
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League 2
Baruch family 2
Blank, Rosa Simmons, -1915 2
Bloom, Jack L., 1920-2010 2
Bloom, Julius H., 1894-1973 2
Breibart family 2
Breibart, George, 1917-2014 2
Breibart, Samuel, 1893-1981 2
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Brown family 2
Charleston County Council 2
Charleston Jewish Social Services (S.C.) 2
Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce 2
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 2
Clemson University 2
D'Ancona family 2
DeCosta family 2
Democratic Party (Charleston County, S.C.) 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Eastman, Margaret Middleton Rivers 2
Edward's, Inc. (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Ehrich family 2
Ehrich, William Seigman, 1881-1969 2
Emanuel family 2
Freemasons 2
Furchgott, Max, 1917-1998 2
Garfinkel family 2
Goldberg family 2
Greenhill, Marsha Silver 2
Halsey McCallum Resources 2
Halsey, William, 1915-1999 2
Harold's Cabin (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 2
Hebrew Benevolent Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Hirsch family 2
Jacobs, Harold, 1913-2009 2
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 2
Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina 2
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) Brotherhood 2
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.). Sisterhood 2
Katzen, Ethel Oberman, 1920-2002 2
Keyserling family 2
Keyserling, Herbert, 1915-2000 2
Keyserling, Jennie Hyman, 1881-1935 2
Keyserling, Paul 2
Keyserling, William 2
Keyserling, William, 1869-1951 2
Kligman, Melton, 1929-2013 2
Kronsberg family 2
Kronsberg, Macey, 1911-2001 2
Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
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