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College of Charleston archives: historical records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0202
Collection Overview
The Archives of the College of Charleston include the records of the creation of the College primarily as an academy in 1785, of its reorganization and of the adoption of a comprehensive college curriculum in 1824 and 1825, of its existence as a municipal college from 1837 to 1949; and of its separate existence as a private institution from 1949 until it became a state institution on July 1, 1970.The minutes of the Trustees are complete from 1785 through the present. Among the...
Dates:
1785-1970
Found in:
Special Collections
Harrison Randolph papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0076
Abstract
Collection contains biographical information, personal diaries, correspondence, writings, teaching notes and other miscellaneous items of Harrison Randolph, President and Chair of Mathematics at the College of Charleston from 1897 to 1942. Papers include diaries from 1910 to 1941 except from mid 1928 to early 1931. Persons mentioned are M. Rutledge Rivers, George Daniel Grice, Thomas della Torre, James Harold Easterby, Horatio Hughes, Olin Burnham Chamberlain, and Williard Silcox Sr. Also...
Dates:
1885-1942
Found in:
Special Collections
Research notes on education in Charleston
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0100
Collection Overview
The collection consists of typescripts from the Charleston newspapers noting anything related to education. The information included is primarily about all aspects of the College of Charleston, but is often about private grammar schools and is sometimes about local scientific work. Meetings of scientific and literary organizations were regularly noted particularly those of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, whose museum became the basis for the College of Charleston...
Dates:
approximately 1934-approximately 1948
Found in:
Special Collections