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Avery photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1112
Dates: approximately 1890s-2012

Walter N. Boags papers

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Identifier: AMN 1053
Abstract From 1949 to the late 1970s, Walter N. Boags (1917-1997) owned and operated Boags Modern Arts Photography Studio, one of the few African-American photography studios in Charleston, South Carolina. During the 1980s, Boags continued to operate as a freelance photographer.The collection consists mostly of black-and-white and color negatives, with some prints and proofs, taken by Walter Boags from 1945 through the 1980s. Boags' work focused on African-Americans, African-American...
Dates: 1945-1980s

Brown Fellowship Society records

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1005
Abstract The Brown Fellowship Society was a benevolent society of free African-American and racially mixed men, affiliated with St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.The collection consists of organizational materials of the Brown Fellowship Society, including a corrected copy of Charles H. Holloway's Rules and Regulations of the Brown Fellowship Society as founded in 1794, but not published until 1844. Minute books detail the...
Dates: 1794-1990

Coards Studio photographs and records

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Identifier: AMN 1086
Abstract The Coards Studio was a photography studio owned and operated by Joseph and Rachel Coards in Charleston, South Carolina. Coards photographed African American families and individuals in the studio and various events and groups outside of the studio, such as graduations, weddings, and other ceremonies. The studio, located at 78 Line Street, closed in the late 20th century.The collection contains business records, photographs, and personal material, including customer contacts,...
Dates: approximately 1930s-1990s

Craft and Crum families papers

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Identifier: AMN 1102
Abstract William Craft (1824-1900) and Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1891) were slaves who met on a plantation in Macon, Georgia. Unwilling to raise children in slavery, in December 1848 they devised a plan to escape to Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Ellen dressed as an invalid male, her arm in a sling to avoid writing (neither William nor Ellen could read or write) and face in bandages to obscure her feminine voice and lack of facial hair. William accompanied her as a servant. They arrived in Philadelphia on...
Dates: 1780-2007

Graves family papers

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Identifier: AMN 1081
Abstract The Graves family of Charleston, South Carolina, was an African American family consisting largely of educators and Avery Institute graduates. James R. B. Graves, Jr. (1883-1969), a Pullman porter and union member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, married Rose Laura Winds (1890-1978) in 1915. Together, they raised five children: J. Michael, Pauline, Annette, Robert, and Eugene. J. Michael Graves (1915-1996), a Class of 1932 graduate of the Avery Institute, was an educator and...
Dates: 1884-2004

Jenkins Orphanage papers

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Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates: 1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980

Burton L. Padoll papers

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Identifier: Mss 1082
Abstract

Sermons, addresses, photographs, publications, and other papers of Burton L. Padoll, rabbi and civil rights advocate. Materials largely relate to Padoll's rabbinate at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1961-1967.

Dates: 1957-2009

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

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Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

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African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 3
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
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clippings (information artifacts) 3
African American musicians -- 20th century -- Photographs 2
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African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 2
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 2
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 2
Church buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 2
Clothing and dress -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 2
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Mourning customs -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Photography -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Portrait photography -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Weddings -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 2
correspondence 2
photographs 2
scrapbooks 2
Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
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Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
African American Muslims -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American Muslims -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American artists -- South Carolina 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American families -- South Carolina 1
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African American freemasons -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American freemasons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American newspapers 1
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African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
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African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Relations with Jews 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
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Ambassadors -- Liberia 1
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Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
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Enslaved persons -- Georgia 1
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Free African Americans -- Social conditions 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
Fugitive slave law (1850) 1
Fugitive slaves -- United States 1
Funeral homes -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies 1
Genealogy 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
Jews -- Political activity -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Orphanages -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Orphans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Photographs 1
Plantations -- Georgia 1
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Pullman porters -- Photographs 1
Pullman porters -- United States -- History 1
Rabbis -- Political activity -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Racially mixed people -- United States 1
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Avery Normal Institute 4
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 2
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America 1