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Barnwell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0110
Abstract This collection consists of correspondence of Reverend William H. W. Barnwell, his wife Catherine Osborn Barnwell, their children and other Barnwell family relations. Topics include social life in Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina, varying religions and their differences, historiography of South Carolina, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Charleston, religious instruction of slaves, missionary work in China, South Carolina College (1840- 1860), Rev. James Henley Thornwell, the capture of...
Dates: 1823-1960s; Majority of material found within 1823-1882

Jacques Benbassat papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-002
Abstract

The collection consists of a photograph album, memoir, passports, and other papers of Jacques Benbassat, a native of Austria who immigrated to the United States in 1949. Materials mostly relate to the Feuerstein family, including identification cards used by Adela Feuerstein, his maternal grandmother, and photographs of Feuerstein family members traveling in Austria and Poland before 1938, when they fled Austria in fear of Nazi persecution.

Dates: 1906-1942, 1998

Grimke family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0176
Abstract Materials include Revolutionary War papers of John Paul Grimke and his son John Faucheraud Grimke, with materials re the latter as intendant (mayor) of Charleston. Papers of his son Thomas Smith Grimke document temperance, politics and education and contain an autograph collection. With papers of Thomas's siblings Frederick Grimke, abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld and others. With materials of two more following generations, and genealogical materials on Grimke,...
Dates: 1678-1977, circa 1990s

Mayer I. Gruber papers

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Identifier: Mss 1095
Abstract

Professional correspondence, autograph collection, certificates, and other papers of Mayer I. Gruber, rabbi and scholar. Materials pertain to Gruber's academic positions, speaking engagements, and publications on biblical lexicography, the Book of Job, women in the biblical world, and medieval Jewish biblical commentaries.

Dates: 1810, 1954-2011

Holocaust archives field researchers collection

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Identifier: Mss 1065-049
Abstract

The collection consists mostly of copied materials, including photographs, memoirs, clippings, books, objects, and other papers. These materials were collected for the Holocaust Archives from Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans, and others, including liberators of German concentration camps, who settled in South Carolina.

Dates: 1894-2010

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

Levi and D'Ancona families papers

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Identifier: Mss 1159
Abstract

Collection includes assorted family records relating to the Levi and D'Ancona families as well as a small amount of materials relating to the Gruenwald/Greenwald family. Also included are the papers of Wendell Mitchell Levi Sr. and his son Dr. Wendell M. Levi Jr.

Dates: 1753-2016; Majority of material found within 1900-2016

Charles Henry Meltzer papers

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Identifier: Mss 0009
Abstract

Collection contains correspondence to dramatist Charles Henry Meltzer from well-known composers (1839-1928), including Cécile Chaminade, Gustave Charpentier, Alphonse Daudet, Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar, George Gershwin, Jules Massenet, Felix Mendelssohn-Barthody, Giacomo Puccini, and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Also includes newspaper clippings relating to Meltzer, and a typescript transcription of Meltzer's biography.

Dates: 1839-1940

Porgy and Bess international tour program collection

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Identifier: Mss 0221
Content Description

This collection contains theatre programs, articles, reviews, and other ephemera related to the international tour of Blevins Davis and Robert Breen’s revival of “Porgy and Bess.” Also included is a 1977 program of a production of “Porgy and Bess” at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1952-1977

William A. Rosenthall Judaica collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1086
Abstract Judaica postcards, prints and posters, periodicals, clippings, philatelic materials, greeting cards, medals, textiles, ephemera, and subject files collected by Rabbi William A. Rosenthall. Materials date from the late 15th to 20th century and document Jewish life on every continent except Antarctica. These materials are mainly iconographic in nature, including artwork depicting many aspects of Jewish history, religion, customs, and daily life. They cover topics such as Jewish holidays,...
Dates: 1493-2002; Majority of material found within 1568-1995

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Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 2
Alston family 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Barnwell family 1
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Barnwell, William Hazzard, 1806-1863 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Benbassat family 1
Benbassat, Dan 1
Benbassat, Jacques, 1929-2010 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Chaminade, Cécile, 1857-1944 1
Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956 1
Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
D'Ancona family 1
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897 1
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918 1
Drayton family 1
Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 1
Feuerstein family 1
Feuerstein, Adela 1
Grimké family 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Grimké, Frederick, 1791-1863 1
Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819 1
Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Gruber, Mayer I. (Mayer Irwin) 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 1
Hunter College 1
Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Levi, Kathryn Weinberg 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1891-1976 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1927-2015 1
Levy family 1
Lincks, Beth 1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 1
Meltzer, Charles Henry, 1853-1936 1
Meltzer, Harold 1
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847 1
Monitor (Ironclad) 1
Palmetto Pigeon Plant 1
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921 1
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 1
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013 1
Robertson, Vida 1
Rosenthall, Irene O. 1
Rosenthall, William A. 1
Rutledge, John, 1739-1800 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Shuster, George N. (George Nauman), 1894-1977 1
South Carolina College 1
St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Thornwell, James Henley, 1812-1862 1
Vanderhorst family 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 1876-1948 1
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