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Vincent P. Lannie collection

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Identifier: Mss 0077
Abstract Materials collected by Vincent P. Lannie relate to writer Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, Allston and Vanderhost family members and their enslaved people, Confederate imprints, a broadside advertisement for a rice planting device, Civil War ships USS Monitor and Keokuk, a Revolutionary era parole, and a letter of John Rutledge. Also includes letters to George N. Shuster, former president of Hunter College and editor of...
Dates: 1733-1974

Patricia Williams Lessane papers

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Identifier: AMN 1175
Abstract

The papers of Patricia Williams Lessane, Executive Director of Avery Research Center for African American History & Culture from 2010-2019.

Dates: 1976-2019

Ludwig Lewisohn papers

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Identifier: Mss 0028
Collection Overview Papers document mostly Lewisohn's friendship and early homosexual love affair with poet George Sylvester Viereck and Lewisohn's later marriage to Edna Manley. Correspondence (1903-1955) between Lewisohn and Viereck is mostly on literary matters; but early holograph poems by Lewisohn refer to their love affair. Other poems include printed and typescript copies and his English translations of some poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.Most of the collection documents the relationship of...
Dates: 1903-1980s; Majority of material found within 1940s

Literary miscellany

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Identifier: Mss 0034-094
Collection Overview Commonplace book and loose papers contain original [?] and copied literary passages. The entries are in several different handwritings and include poems, essays, quotations, letters, and excerpts from sermons. Many poems have a pastoral or religious theme, while other passages concern mourning and consolation, illness, conjugal love, friendship, and moral character and conduct. Authors named include Langhorn, Dr. Watts, Matthew Prior, Tickell, Le Fevre, and Stern. Two poems are dedicated to...
Dates: approximately 1800-1865; Majority of material found within approximately 1800

Joseph Mann letters

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Identifier: Mss 1034-002
Collection Overview Collection consists of sixteen letters and two poems, all handwritten originals. Majority (fourteen) are love letters (April-Dec. 1877) from Joseph Mann to Amelia (Milia) Robinson, written during their courtship. Mann did not write in English, so a friend wrote the letters for him. Topics include Mann's sentimental anticipation of their nuptials and his love for Robinson. His letters also mention family members in Laurens and Robinson's siblings, references to Mann's store in Newberry, SC;...
Dates: 1877-1894; Majority of material found within 1877

Penina Moïse poems

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Identifier: Mss 1034-049
Collection Overview

The collection consists of two original poems, handwritten by the author, Penina Moïse. The first, entitled "On Parting with My Press" is one page; the second, "To the Consecration," is two pages.

Dates: approximately 1840s

B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui scrapbook

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Identifier: Mss 1053
Collection Overview The collection consists of a scrapbook (1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 35 cm.) and pieces which were removed from the scrapbook and, in some cases, photocopied. The scrapbook is inscribed: "This is 'Mama's' scrapbook and was given to me by 'Mother' and 'Papa' on the 25th of September 1874. B.A.R. Ottolengui." Given to B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui in 1874, the scrapbook contains pseudonymous and other publications by his mother Helen Rodriguez Ottolengui in Civil War era publications as well as...
Dates: approximately 1860-approximately 1890; Majority of material found within 1860s-1879

Ethelyn Murray Parker papers

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Identifier: AMN 1029
Abstract Ethelyn Murray was born in 1895 to Georgie Westcott and Robert J. Murray, in Charleston, S.C. Murray attended the Simonton School and the Avery Normal Institute, graduating in 1914. Murray worked at Voorhees for nine years and in 1936, she moved back to Charleston. She married Sebastian L. Parker in 1939. In the 1940s, Parker took a writing correspondence course and upon completion, she began a column for The Lighthouse and Informer, an African American...
Dates: 1899-1992; Majority of material found within 1920-1980

Poem, 1861 (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-156
Collection Overview

This collection consists of a photocopy of a poem entitled "The old house on Thadd St." The title refers to the John Rutledge House, a historical house museum in Charleston, S.C. The author is not mentioned on the photocopy but is identified as Miss Nelson by Alston Deas, compiler of the collection.

Dates: undated

Temple Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) records

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Identifier: Mss 1083
Abstract

Records of Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Sumter, South Carolina. Materials document the administrative, financial, social, educational, charitable, and spiritual activities of the congregation and its members. Also included are materials documenting prominent Jewish individuals and families of Sumter, including Penina Moïse and the Moses family.

Dates: 1789-2012; Majority of material found within 1920-1996

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Avery Normal Institute 2
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Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 2
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955 2
Moïse, Penina 2
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 2
Academy of Music (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Aleph Zadik Aleph 1
Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949 1
Alston family 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
Avery Research Center 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Bennett, John, 1865-1956 1
Bennett, Susan Smythe, 1878-1965 1
Berendt family 1
Berendt, Anna Gelson, 1913-2001 1
Berendt, Benjamin, 1912-2010 1
Berendt, Gerald E. 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Bragg, Laura M. (Laura Mary), 1881-1978 1
Breibart, Solomon 1
Buist Elementary School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Carroll, Ellen M. 1
Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861 1
Coards Studio 1
Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
Conference on Economic Progress (U.S.) 1
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 1
Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.) 1
Cox, H. Morris (Headley Morris), 1916- 1
DeLeon, Isabelle, 1858-1927 1
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 1
Durham, Frank 1
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 1
Edwards, Lucille Roper, 1924-2016 1
Eureka Club 1
Evans, Virginia Geraty, 1939-2021 1
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 1
Fuller, Rex G. 1
Gelson family 1
Geraty, Edward Mixson 1
Harby family 1
Harby, Isaac, 1788-1828 1
Harrelson, Alice Moore 1
Harris, Carlotta Letitia, 1865-1946 1
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 1
Hayne, Mary Middleton Michel, 1831-1892 1
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886 1
Hayne, Susan Brandford, 1829-1895 1
Hayne, William Hamilton, 1856-1929 1
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
Heyward, Janie Screven DuBose, -1939 1
Hicks, Judith Geraty, 1940-2011 1
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 1
Holmes, Louise F. 1
Hunter College 1
Hyer, Helen von Kolnitz 1
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith 1
Jacoby family 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Jervey, Theodore D. (Theodore Dehon), 1859-1947 1
John Rutledge House (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jones, Elizabeth Warren 1
Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
Keyserling, Harriet, 1922-2010 1
Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987 1
Keyserling, Mary Dublin 1
Keyserling, William 1
Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Levin, Nathaniel, 1816-1899 1
Lewisohn, Edna, 1908- 1
Lewisohn, James 1
Lewisohn, Thelma Spear 1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
Mann, Amelia Robinson, 1859-1933 1
Mann, Joseph, 1845-1929 1
Massenburg, Joyce 1
May, Philip S., Jr. 1
McGehearty family 1
McGowan, Clelia P. 1
Melnick, Ralph 1
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 1
Monitor (Ironclad) 1
Moore, Aline Harby, 1897-1982 1
Moses family 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Florence Branch (Florence, S.C.) 1
National Association of Life Insurance Medical Examiners 1
National League of American Pen Women 1
Nelson, Selma 1
Ottolengui family 1
Ottolengui, Cecile, 1858-1936 1
Ottolengui, Daniel, 1836-1918 1
Ottolengui, Helen Rosalie Rodrigues, 1843-1866 1
Ottolengui, Rodrigues, 1861-1937 1
Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 1