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Solomon-Prystowsky family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1013
Abstract

Papers of the Solomon and Prystowsky families of Charleston, South Carolina, including records related to the family company, Sam Solomon Company.

Dates: approximately 1880s-1995
Found in: Special Collections

Solomon, Yaschik, and Rosen families photographs and papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1165
Abstract

Photographs, scrapbooks, and a few genealogical documents of the Solomon, Yaschik and Rosen families of Moncks Corner, Charleston, and Folly Beach, South Carolina.

Dates: approximately 1880s-2005; Majority of material found within 1914-1969
Found in: Special Collections

Solomons family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1103
Abstract

Photographs, genealogical materials, financial and legal papers, ketubah, and correspondence of the Solomons family of Sumter, South Carolina. Materials primarily relate to the family of Augustus Aurelius Solomons, Sumter merchant, and youngest son of Mark Solomons and Rachel Rodrigues Solomons. Solomons' parents are reputed to be Sumter's first permanent Jewish settlers, moving to the area circa 1820.

Dates: 1800s-1941
Found in: Special Collections

Renata Somers collection of Holocaust photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-044
Abstract

The collection consists of copy negatives, contact sheets, and digital images of the destruction of the synagogue in Holešov, Czechoslovakia, in 1941, by the Nazis. Also included are images of photographs, postcards, and letters relating to Renata Somers's grandfather, Jakub Michalowski, cantor of the Holešov Jewish community, who was killed at Auschwitz in 1944.

Dates: 1941
Found in: Special Collections

South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1037
Collection Overview Collection includes correspondence, organization files, photographs, financial records, minutes, publications, programs. Collection consists of organizational records of the South Carolina Association of B'nai B'rith Lodges (SCABBL); bulk is minutes (1948-1997) from annual conventions and quarterly executive committee meetings. Also included are minutes and programs from South Carolina State Conferences (1952, 1953) of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; minutes from District Grand...
Dates: 1940-1997
Found in: Special Collections

South Carolina Rosenwald Schools collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1152
Abstract The Rosenwald Schools Initiative was founded by Tuskegee Institute founder, Booker T. Washington and Sears and Roebuck Co. president, Julius Rosenwald in 1912. Washington saw the need to build schools for African Americans, particularly in rural areas across the South and Rosenwald was looking for a charitable opportunity to support and expressed interest in the plight of the Black community. Although Washington passed away in late 1915, the Rosenwald Fund went on to support the creation of...
Dates: 1912-2005, undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Southern Jewish Historical Society records-Part I

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Identifier: Mss 1056a
Collection Overview Part I is the first accession of the Southern Jewish Historical Society records. Records are divided into eleven series. Series #1, Administrative Records, 1978-2000; includes organizational histories; constitution and by-laws, tax-exempt paperwork; presidents' reports; executive board member lists and committee appointments (by year); executive board meeting minutes (1982-2000); general business meeting minutes (1984-1998); committee correspondence and reports; lists of Jewish publications...
Dates: 1978-2002; Majority of material found within 1985-1994
Found in: Special Collections

St. Mark's Episcopal Church records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1121
Abstract St. Mark's Episcopal Church was organized as an independent parish in 1865 by a group of prominent black Episcopalians who were without a place to worship- since most of the white Episcopalian churches were evacuated in Charleston as a result of the city's occupation by Union Forces. The church's first service was held on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. The congregation continued to grow and in 1870 a lot at the corner of Warren and Thomas Streets in historic Radcliffeborough was purchased...
Dates: 1862-2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

St. Philip Street "Rewisited" Reunion

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1001
Collection Overview Material related to reunion of St. Philip Street Jewish community, March 2-4, 1990, Charleston, South Carolina. Includes planning notes, reminiscences and correspondence, publicity materials, a video, photographs, prints of photographs, and photocopies of photographs. The collection consists of reminiscences by St. Philip Street residents regarding life in the area during the 1930s-40s. Questionnaires containing biographical information about former residents are also available. Also notable...
Dates: 1920-1990
Found in: Special Collections

Ethel Jorgensen Stafford papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-021
Abstract

The collection consists of images, postcards, clippings, and photocopies of Ethel Jorgensen Stafford, a U.S. Army nurse who was stationed in Germany in 1945. Included are atrocity photographs of concentration camp victims and photographs of war damage to German cities where Jorgensen was based, including Aachen, Viersen, Gardelegen, and Berlin.

Dates: 1943-1951, 2008
Found in: Special Collections

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 10
cabinet photographs 10
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sketches 10
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Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 6
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South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 6
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jewish 6
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exhibition catalogs 6
military records 6
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Charleston (S.C.) -- History 5
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cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 5
floppy disks 5
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posters 5
prayer books 5
school records 5
speeches (documents) 5
watercolors (paintings) 5
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Germany 4
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College of Charleston 12
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 11
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 10
United States. Army 10
Avery Normal Institute 7
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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
Avery Research Center 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
DeCosta family 3
Deas family 3
Freemasons 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
Smith family 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
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
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
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
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