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Comments on lectures given by Orestes A. Brownson

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-007
Collection Overview

The collection consists of five newspaper clippings of letters to the editor of the Charleston Standard. The letters were written in 1856 and were in response to a series of lectures by Orestes Augustus Brownson. They attack the "Catholicity" of Brownson's theology. Each is signed "Protestantism."

Dates: 1856

Diary of J.B. Grimball

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Frank R. Fisher notes

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0072
Collection Overview Front cover inscribed "F.R. Fisher. Notes." Frank R. Fisher's "notes" contain observations, drawings, and photographs relating to scientific and technological studies, particularly astronomical observations made while Fisher was a resident in Charleston, S.C. during the 1880s.; Fisher records important discoveries and observations made by various scientists earlier in the century. Fisher's astronomical observations begin in Charleston in 1882 with the sighting of a comet. He also records his...
Dates: 1882-1902

Willard N. Hirsch papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1074
Abstract

This collection contains Willard Hirsch's papers, clippings, and publications related to his career as a sculptor, including his correspondence, photographs, sketches of his artwork, a scrapbook related to his work, and exhibition catalogs. It also includes information on his work as an art instructor, his involvement with the arts and Jewish communities in Charleston, South Carolina, and on members of his family, including his wife, Mordenai Raisin Hirsch, and uncle, Herman Rosenbluth.

Dates: 1911-2010

Alexander von Humboldt clippings

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-100
Collection Overview

The collection consists of two newspaper clippings concerning correspondence from Alexander V. Humboldt. One of the clippings contains the full text of a letter from Humboldt to George Ticknor. It is dated July 10, 1858. The second clipping discusses Humboldt's correspondence. It is dated June 20, 1860.

Dates: 1858, 1860

Laufer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-076
Abstract

Papers of the Laufer family, Polish immigrants who ran a kosher restaurant on King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Materials include an original Laufer's Kosher Restaurant business card, naturalization certificates, a ketubah, and two family photographs. Most materials are photocopies. Also included are 12 cupping glasses or "bankas" used for medicinal purposes.

Dates: 1910-circa 1945

Marine Resources Division, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources map and chart collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0126
Collection Overview

This collection consists of a wide variety of maps, charts, and aerial photographs. The maps are arranged by type of map: topographic, geologic, bathymetric, nautical, aerial, and miscellaneous. Most of the maps are of South Carolina but maps of the southeast United States and the Gulf of Mexico coast are also included in this collection. The maps are arranged by state and county and thereafter chronologically.

Dates: 1802-1988

Trott family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0136
Abstract

Includes materials compiled by Charleston native Mabel Trott FitzSimons, including genealogical data and family history relating to Bailey, Cambridge, Cave, FitzSimons, Good, Gregorie, Hendricks, Trott, Venning, and Wood families. Also includes a copy of sailor Henry W. Hendricks' Civil War diary, and records regarding Myrtle Grove Plantation.

Dates: 1836-1981; Majority of material found within 1940-1973

Guta Blas Weintraub papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-019
Abstract Images and newspaper clippings of Guta Blas Weintraub, a Jewish resident of Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States after World War II, settling in Charleston, South Carolina. Pre-war images show members of the Blas and Weintraub families in Łódź and Bodzentyn, Poland. Wartime images show Leon Weintraub in a work camp in Starachowice, Poland, and Guta Blas in Sweden after her rescue. Post-war images show the Weintraubs in the Bergen-Belsen displaced...
Dates: circa 1922-2008

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clippings (information artifacts) 6
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Drayton Hall -- History 1
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Antwerp Plantation (S.C.) 1
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Charleston Earthquake, S.C., 1886 1
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Jewish artists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Jewish marriage customs and rites 1
Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Kershaw County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
Kosher restaurants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Myrtle Grove Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Nautical charts -- South Carolina 1
Oconee County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
Old Fort Plantation (S.C.) 1
Orangeburg County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
Pinebury Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Plantation life -- South Carolina 1
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History -- 18th Century 1
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History -- 19th Century 1
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Drayton Hall -- History 1
Plantation owners -- South Carolina 1
Plantations -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 1
Protestantism -- United States -- History -- 19th Century 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Rice -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 1
Sailors -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Science -- United States -- History 1
Scientific apparatus and instruments 1
Sculptors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century 1
Slann's Island (S.C.) 1
Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston County -- History 1
South Carolina -- Aerial photographs 1
South Carolina -- Bathymetric maps 1
South Carolina -- History 1
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 1
South Carolina -- Maps 1
South Carolina -- Maps, Topographic 1
South Carolina -- Politics and government 1
South Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Starachowice (Poland) 1
Sumter County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 1
Williamsburg County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Poland 1
York County (S.C.) -- Maps 1
accounts 1
administrative records 1
architectural drawings (visual works) 1
black-and-white negatives 1
black-and-white slides 1
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Hebrew 1
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Portuguese 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Bailey family 1
Berle, Helen Laufer Dwork, 1923- 1
Blas family 1
Brownson, Orestes Augustus, 1803-1876 1
Cambridge family 1
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Cave family 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
Fisher, Frank R. 1
FitzSimons, Mabel Trott, 1883-1979 1
Fitzsimmons family 1
Flinn, Eliza B., -1844 1
Geological Survey (U.S.) 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Good family 1
Gregorie family 1
Grimball, John Berkley, 1800-1892 1
Hendricks family 1
Hendricks, Henry W., 1826-1898 1
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 1
Hirsch, Willard Newman, 1905-1982 1
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 1
Keller, Frederica B. 1
Laufer (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Laufer family 1
Laufer's Kosher Restaurant (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Laufer, Tillie Hufeizen 1
Manigault, Charlotte Drayton, 1781-1855 1
Porcher, Isaac DuBose, 1832-1866 1
Rosenbluth, Herman 1
South Carolina. Marine Resources Division 1
South Carolina. Wildlife and Marine Resources Department 1
Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 1
Trott family 1
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1
United States Coast Survey 1
United States. Department of the Interior 1
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1
United States. Works Progress Administration 1
Venning family 1
Weintraub family 1
Weintraub, Guta Blas, 1924-2008 1
Wilkins, Eliza Berkley, approximately 1798-1863 1
Wine, Blanche Weintraub 1
Wood family 1
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