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A factor's account book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0073
Collection Overview

The account book contains information about transactions of an unknown merchant in Charleston, S.C. The book details the sale of cotton, rice, and other commodities. It also provides information about the sale of goods and trade with ships and other merchants who operated in Charleston. The account book is a detailed representation of these transactions, but it does not name the factor or the company who it belonged to. No information on the origin of the account book is available.

Dates: 1861-1864

Appointment of arbitrators to open South Street (Charleston, S.C.)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-004
Collection Overview

The collection consists of a document naming Louis D. DeSaussure, J. Fraser Mathewes, and I.M. Shackelford arbitrators on behalf of the Charleston (S.C.) City Council in the matter of opening South Street from Hanover to America Streets. The document is signed by Mayor P.C. Gaillard.

Dates: 1867 July 2

Bank of the United States stock indentures

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-085
Collection Overview

Consists of stock indentures issued in Charleston, South Carolina, to Isaac Ball, James Calder, Louis Danjou, John C. Faber, Marie Huguet, William Jenner, Basil Lanneau, Nathan Nathans, William Payne, Burridge Purvis, William Purvis, George Rose, J.E.A. Steinmetz, Williams Thayer, Miss A.E. Van Rhyn, and James Hamilton (of Georgia).

Dates: 1793-1818

Byrnes Downs Garden Club scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0148
Abstract

This collection consists of a scrapbook documenting the history, projects, and activities of the Byrnes Downs Garden Club (Charleston, S.C.) from 1948 to 1953.

Dates: 1948-1953

Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1124
Abstract Photographs, correspondence, diaries and memoirs, genealogical materials, land records and certificates, and printed materials relating to the Cohen, Emanuel, Moses, and Seixas families. The families are related through the marriages of Eleanor H. Cohen to Benjamin Seixas in 1865, Mary Eleanor Seixas to Maurice Emanuel in 1888, and Charlotte Virginia Emanuel to Henry P. Moses in 1912. Of particular note is a diary belonging to Eleanor H. Cohen that documents the arrival of Union General...
Dates: 1806-2005; Majority of material found within 1865-1934

H. Morris Cox research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0127
Collection Overview This collection consists of 5x8 index cards which were used for research in: Cox, Headley Morris, Jr., Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930, Thesis (Ph.d.), University of Pennsylvania, 1958. The information included is about the literary South, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Renaissance, and the poems of W. Herbey Allen and DuBose Heyward. Other writers who contributed to the Charleston Renaissance are noted, along with a list of prizewinners in the contests...
Dates: 1920-1930

Fritz P. Hamer research materials on the Charleston Navy Yard

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Identifier: Mss 0222
Collection Overview The collection contains research notes, correspondence, transcripts of oral history interviews, manuscript drafts, photographs, and photocopies of primary source materials for Fritz P. Hamer’s 1998 dissertation A Southern City Enters the Twentieth Century: Charleston, its Navy Yard, and World War II, 1940-1948 and 2005 book Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, its Navy Yard and World War II. Research materials also focus on...
Dates: 1947-2013; Majority of material found within 1995-2005

Edward Hyrne letter, 1700 (photocopy)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-114
Collection Overview The document is a photocopy of a letter sent from Charleston to England. It was written by Edward Hyrne to his wife, who is only identified as "My Dear Love," on October 19, 1700. In the letter, Hyrne described a hurricane that hit Charleston on September 30, 1700. He also gave a brief account of life in the city. A typescript of the letter is also included in the collection. Each leaf is a two sided photocopy. On the back side of each leaf is a stamp from the "Taurus Gallery" in London,...
Dates: approximately 1980

Iseman family collection

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Identifier: Mss 1073
Collection Overview

This collection contains information pertaining to the Iseman family. The first box includes letters, genealogical research, photocopies, photographs, and correspondence related to the Iseman family. The second box contains biographical files of Iseman family members, including family genealogy notes.

Dates: 1961-1996

Senator Burnet R. Maybank papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0085
Abstract Legislative files, correspondence, printed material, voting records, and personal papers of Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899-1954), United States Senator from 1941 to 1954. Materials primarily relate to Maybank's professional life as a United States Senator and include his legislative working files and constituent correspondence. The collection also includes a small amount of personal papers concerning Maybank and his family including personal correspondence, financial material, photographs,...
Dates: 1914-1973; Majority of material found within 1941-1954

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Bennett, John, 1865-1956 1
Bennett, Susan Smythe, 1878-1965 1
Bluestein family 1
Bragg, Laura M. (Laura Mary), 1881-1978 1
Byrnes Downs Garden Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Carroll, Ellen M. 1
Charleston (S.C.). Board of Fire Masters 1
Charleston (S.C.). City Council 1
Charleston (S.C.). Fire Department 1
Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cohen family 1
Cohen, Eleanor H., 1839-1874 1
Coppedge, Walter, 1930- 1
Cox, H. Morris (Headley Morris), 1916- 1
Curtis, Patricia 1
De Wolf, Charlotte Helen Middleton, 1854-1919 1
DeSaussure, Louis D., approximately 1820- 1
Doar, Maria Middleton, 1844-1906 1
Durham, Frank 1
Eisenmann family 1
Emanuel family 1
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Fanning family 1
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
Fuller, Rex G. 1
Gaillard, Peter C., 1812-1889 1
Gourdin, Robert N., 1812-1894 1
Grice, George Daniel, 1900-1977 1
Hamer, Fritz P. 1
Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940 1
Heyward, Janie Screven DuBose, -1939 1
Hyer, Helen von Kolnitz 1
Hyrne, Edward 1
Iseman, Joseph 1
J.N. Robson and Son (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jones, Elizabeth Warren 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Kinard, Alph E. 1
Lesesne, Henry Deas, 1810-1886 1
Mahon, Octavia 1
Mathewes, J. Fraser 1
Maybank, Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett), 1899-1954 1
McGowan, Clelia P. 1
Medical University of South Carolina 1
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Miles, James Warley, 1818-1875 1
Moses family 1
Nathan, Moses Henry, 1821-1875 1
Nettles family 1
Parker, Frost 1
Pinckney, Josephine, 1895-1957 1
Poetry Society of South Carolina 1
Polzois, James, 1939-2018 1
Poyas, Catharine Gendron, 1813-1882 1
Ravenel, Beatrice Witte, 1870-1956 1
Rones, Fannie Appel, 1926- 1
Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973 1
Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project 1
Seidler, Margaret Thorne 1
Seixas family 1
Shackelford, I. M. 1
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 1
Simons, Katherine Drayton, 1890-1969 1
Skardon, Alvin Wilson, 1912- 1
Sly family 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Charlie 1
Smith, Granville Paul, 1893-1947 1
South Carolina Statewide Historical Project 1
South Carolina. Militia. Washington Light Infantry Company 1
South-Carolina Society 1
St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Stern, Theodore Sanders 1
Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1853-1926 1
United States (Title of work: Constitution.) 1
United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice 1
United States. Congress. Senate 1
Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822 1
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 1
Washington Light Infantry (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Zacharias, Henry T., -approximately 1915 1
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