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Avery photograph collection

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

Bank of the United States stock indentures

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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

Charleston Chamber of Commerce records

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Identifier: Mss 0034-010
Collection Overview Records (1823-1923) include rules, awards, proposed constitution and by-laws, an annual report, and membership lists. A typescript copy of “Rules Charleston Chamber of Commerce Adopted to March 1858,” transcribed from the original by Agnes P. Lyons as part of a 1935-1936 W.P.A. project, contains a list of names of individual members whose signatures are on the document. A typescript copy of “Awards” transcribed by Mabel Whiting and Julia W. Reynolds during a 1935-1936 W.P.A. project contains...
Dates: 1823-1936

"Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike" rough draft (photocopy)

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Identifier: Mss 0034-102
Collection Overview The paper is a typed rough draft with hand written corrections. It describes the Hospital workers' strike at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1969. The author is not identified, but a handwritten note reveals that the document was written in 1982. The paper discusses the role played by Mary Moultrie, the leader of the strike, and William McCord, the college president, in the strike. The strike was a protest by African-American, predominantly female, hospital workers for better...
Dates: 1982

Septima P. Clark papers

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Identifier: AMN 1000
Abstract Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Peter Porcher Poinsette and Victoria Anderson. Clark attended small private schools and Avery Institute, getting a teacher's certificate in 1916. She married Nerie Clark (1889-1925) of North Carolina, a navy cook in 1920; they had one surviving child Nerie Clark, Jr. (born 1925). Clark received her BA from Benedict College in 1942 and an MA from Hampton Institute in 1946. She taught in various schools throughout...
Dates: approximately 1910-1990

Herb Frazier papers

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Identifier: AMN 1088
Abstract Herb Frazier, an African American journalist based in the Lowcountry, has reported and edited for various newspapers in South Carolina and elsewhere since 1972. Frazier has been active in professional journalism associations and in education initiatives for minority journalism.The collection includes materials related to the personal and professional life of Herb Frazier. A small portion of the collection contains biographical, educational, and other personal information. The...
Dates: 1972-2006

German Friendly Society records

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Identifier: Mss 0019
Abstract

The German Friendly Society was a social and benevolent organization founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1766. This collection contains typewritten transcriptions of their meeting minutes (1766-1858) compiled during a Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) project from 1935-1940.

Dates: 1766-1940

Grimke family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0176
Abstract Materials include Revolutionary War papers of John Paul Grimke and his son John Faucheraud Grimke, with materials re the latter as intendant (mayor) of Charleston. Papers of his son Thomas Smith Grimke document temperance, politics and education and contain an autograph collection. With papers of Thomas's siblings Frederick Grimke, abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld and others. With materials of two more following generations, and genealogical materials on Grimke,...
Dates: 1678-1977, circa 1990s

Iseman family collection

 Collection
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

Esau Jenkins papers, 1963-2003

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Identifier: AMN 1004
Abstract Esau Jenkins (1910-1972) was born and raised on Johns Island, South Carolina. With very little formal education, he became a businessman and civil rights leader.The collection contains biographical papers, correspondence, writings, and information about his affliations, including the Progressive Club, Citizen's Committee of Charleston, Community Organization Credit Union, Political Action Committee of Charleston County, Political Awareness League of Charleston County, and the...
Dates: 1963-2003

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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 4
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clippings (information artifacts) 4
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Charleston (S.C.) 3
minutes (administrative records) 3
typescripts 3
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 2
News and courier (Charleston, S.C. : Daily) 2
Political action committees -- South Carolina 2
broadsides (notices) 2
speeches (documents) 2
Academic libraries -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American journalists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American women -- Social conditions 1
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African Americans -- Civil rights 1
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- History 1
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Charleston (S.C.) -- Social life and customs 1
Charlotte observer (Charlotte, N.C. : 1916) 1
Christianity 1
Christianity -- Philosophy 1
Civil rights workers -- United States 1
Clemson (S.C.) 1
Clergy -- Correspondence 1
Confederate States of America -- Imprints 1
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Darlington (S.C.) -- History 1
Daufuskie Island (S.C.) -- Social conditions 1
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Education -- 19th century 1
Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
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Education -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Educational change -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Educators -- Correspondence 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Ferries -- South Carolina -- Berkeley County 1
Finance, Public -- United States 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
German Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
Hazing -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
James Island (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina 1
Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- History 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Darlington -- History 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Marion -- History 1
Johns Island (S.C. : Island) -- Economic conditions 1
Journalism -- South Carolina 1
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Journalism -- Study and teaching -- United States 1
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French 2
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Names
United States. Works Progress Administration 4
Citizens' Committee of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.) 2
College of Charleston 2
Confederate Home and College (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 2
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Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 2
Medical University of South Carolina 2
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Aiken, William Martin, 1855-1908 1
Allen University 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Alston family 1
Avery Normal Institute 1
Avery Research Center 1
Bank of the United States (1791-1811) 1
Bank of the United States (1816-1836) 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Bethel United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Blacks United for Action 1
Blake, J. Herman 1
Carawan, Candie 1
Carawan, Guy 1
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998 1
Carson, Josephine, 1919- 1
Charleston Advertising Club (S.C.) 1
Charleston Area Community Relations Committee (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston Chamber of Commerce (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County School District 1
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
Community Organization Credit Union 1
De Wolf, Charlotte Helen Middleton, 1854-1919 1
Doar, Maria Middleton, 1844-1906 1
Drayton family 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Eisenmann family 1
Episcopal Church 1
Frazier, Herb, 1950- 1
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
German Friendly Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Gourdin, Robert N., 1812-1894 1
Grimké family 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Grimké, Frederick, 1791-1863 1
Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819 1
Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 1
Horton, Zilphia, 1910-1956 1
Hunter College 1
Iseman, Joseph 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jenkins family 1
Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
Kinard, Alph E. 1
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Lesesne, Henry Deas, 1810-1886 1
Little, Samuel, active 1778 1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
McCord, William M. (William Mellen), 1907-1996 1
Medical College of South Carolina (1952-1969) 1
Middleton family 1
Middleton, Anna Elizabeth de Wolf 1
Middleton, N. Russell (Nathaniel Russell), 1810-1890 1
Miles, James Warley, 1818-1875 1
Monitor (Ironclad) 1
Moultrie, Mary, 1943-2015 1
National Association of Black Journalists 1
Newman, William, active 1778 1
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 1
Penn Community Services 1
Political Action Committee of Charleston County (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Poyas, Catharine Gendron, 1813-1882 1
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921 1
Progressive Club (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013 1
Robert, Peter, active 1781 1
Robert, Thomas, active 1776-1792 1
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 1
Rutledge, John, 1739-1800 1
Shuster, George N. (George Nauman), 1894-1977 1
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 1
South Carolina Association of Black Journalists 1
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 1
South Carolina Statewide Historical Project 1
South Carolina. Militia. Washington Light Infantry Company 1
South-Carolina Society 1
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1
St. Andrew's Lutheran Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Stoney, Samuel Gaillard, 1853-1926 1
United States (Title of work: Constitution.) 1
United States Commission on Civil Rights. South Carolina Advisory Committee 1
University of South Carolina 1
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