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George Smith Adams papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0174
Abstract

Mainly George Smith Adams' genealogical research documenting his father George Alexander Adams (1887-1984), mother Theodora Elizabeth Smith Adams (1888-1983), grandfather Daniel Townsend Smith (1842-1929) with data on the Washington Artillery, and great grandfather Thomas Peter Smith (1814-1899). Also included are materials relating to his extended family and their surrounding areas, especially the Townsend family, Medway Plantation, Edisto Island, Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1826-2010; Majority of material found within 1925-1999

Zig Boroughs papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-040
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence, memoirs, and other papers of Zig Boroughs, an American soldier who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. Two memoirs are included: one written by Edith Jakobs, a Jewish native of Germany who was liberated by members of Boroughs's unit while in hiding in the Netherlands; the other by Werner "Tom" Angress, also a Jewish native of Germany, who enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as an interrogator with Boroughs's...
Dates: 1984-2008

Bryan, Carson, Moses, and Werber family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1152
Abstract The Bryan, Carson, Moses, and Werber families of Sumter County, South Carolina, represent the relationships between Jewish and Christian families in 19th century South Carolina. Henry Claremont Moses, of a prominent Jewish family, married Andrena Werber, of a Christian family, in 1878; their daughter Catherine married William Alfred Bryan. This collection contains papers, correspondence, photographs/daguerreotypes, genealogical records, and artifacts from the Bryan branch of the family. A...
Dates: approximately 1840s-2011; Majority of material found within 1911-1984

Frances Mazo and Julius Butwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1179
Abstract

The papers of Frances Mazo Butwin and Julius Butwin, the first English translators of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem. The papers include her writings and diaries, their correspondence, family photographs, and copies of their books.

Dates: 1907-2023; Majority of material found within 1907-1943

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

Diary of J.B. Grimball

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Identifier: Mss 0021
Collection Overview Typescript copies (1937-1938) of 17 diaries (1832-1884) kept by John Berkeley Grimball of Pinebury and Old Fort Plantations, transcribed from the original by Frederica B. Keller during a 1935-1938 W.P.A. project.Entries include references to family matters, including the division of Grimball's mother's [Eliza Flinn] estate, social events, religion, a hot air balloon ascension (1834), a duel (1856), and Grimball's trips to Sulphur Srings, Virginia and elsewhere.The...
Dates: 1832-1938

Drayton papers

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Identifier: Mss 0152
Abstract

Diaries, ledgers, correspondence, inventories, plats, sketches, architectural drawings of John Drayton, Charles Drayton I-III, James Glen, Charlotta Drayton, Mary Middleton Drayton and others, relating mainly to affairs at Drayton Hall and other family plantations. Collection also includes artwork, reflections on eighteenth century literature, deeds, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Dates: 1701-2004

Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1120
Abstract The collection consists of photographs, photograph albums, diaries, scrapbooks, High School of Charleston and university materials, correspondence, travel souvenirs, oral histories, and family interviews of Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro. The majority of materials document Sandra Garfinkel Shapiro's youth, from her teenage years through her graduation from University of North Carolina in 1957, with the largest portion of the collection consisting of photographs of Sandra and her...
Dates: 1901-2014; Majority of material found within 1935-2002

Alexander Glennie meteorological observations

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0031
Abstract

Eight bound volumes containing charts (graphs and tables) pertaining to the weather and meteorological observations of Alexander Glennie taken in All Saints Parish, Waccamaw, South Carolina, and Georgetown, South Carolina.

Dates: 1834-1880

William Halsey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0067
Abstract

Biographical materials, artwork, writings, slides and photographs, printed materials, correspondence, working files, and other papers of artist, author, and teacher William Halsey. Also included are a variety of materials relating to the Halsey and Loeb families as well as writings and numerous slide images from his travels through Mexico, Central America, Europe, North Africa, the South Pacific, and the Galapagos.

Dates: 1874-2006

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Achurch, William Cuttino 1
Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
Alexander family 1
Alston family 1
American Textile Manufacturers Institute 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
B'nai B'rith 1
B-52's (Musical group) 1
Bailey family 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Brown, Kent, 1953-2003 1
Bryan (Family : Sumter County, S.C.) 1
Bryan, Susan Carson 1
Bryant family 1
Butwin, Frances 1
Butwin, Joseph (Joseph Mazo), 1943- 1
Butwin, Julius, -1945 1
Cambridge family 1
Carson family 1
Cave family 1
Chamberlain, Olin Burnham 1
Cohen, Eleanor H., 1839-1874 1
Cohen, Sidney J., 1891-1915 1
Coming Street Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.) 1
Da Costa family 1
De Leon family 1
De Lyon family 1
Della Torre, Thomas 1
Drayton family 1
Drayton, Carolus 1
Drayton, Charles Henry, 1847-1915 1
Drayton, Charles, 1785-1844 1
Drayton, Charles, 1814-1852 1
Drayton, Charlotta D., 1884-1969 1
Drayton, James Shoolbred, 1820-1867 1
Drayton, John, 1831-1912 1
Drayton, John, active 1777 1
Drayton, Mary Middleton Shoolbred, 1794-1855 1
Drayton, Thomas Henry Middleton, 1828-1867 1
Drayton, William Henry, 1742-1779 1
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 1
Ellis, Firth England 1
Emanuel family 1
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 1
FitzSimons, Mabel Trott, 1883-1979 1
Fitzsimmons family 1
Flinn, Eliza B., -1844 1
Fort Sumter Memorial Commission (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Fortiere, Nancy Alston Siegling 1
Fraser, Mary Edna 1
Garfinkel family 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Glennie, Alexander 1
Good family 1
Gregorie family 1
Grice, George Daniel, 1900-1977 1
Grimball, John Berkley, 1800-1892 1
Haegun Sagwan Hakkyo (Korea) 1
Halsey McCallum Resources 1
Halsey family 1
Halsey, Ashley, 1879-1971 1
Halsey, Eleanor Rose Loeb, 1883-1968 1
Halsey, William, 1915-1999 1
Harby family 1
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 1
Haskell family 1
Hebrew Benevolent Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hebrew Orphan Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Hendricks family 1
Hendricks, Henry W., 1826-1898 1
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
Hess, Karen 1
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 1
Hughes, Horatio 1
Hunter College 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
J. F. R. 1
Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Jervey, Theodore D. (Theodore Dehon), 1859-1947 1
Keith family 1
Keller, Frederica B. 1
Kelly, William Aiken 1
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
Korea (South). Haegun 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Lazar family 1
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