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George Smith Adams papers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

William Halsey papers

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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

Vincent P. Lannie collection

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Identifier: Mss 0077
Abstract Materials collected by Vincent P. Lannie relate to writer Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, Allston and Vanderhost family members and their enslaved people, Confederate imprints, a broadside advertisement for a rice planting device, Civil War ships USS Monitor and Keokuk, a Revolutionary era parole, and a letter of John Rutledge. Also includes letters to George N. Shuster, former president of Hunter College and editor of...
Dates: 1733-1974

Bokara Legendre papers

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Identifier: Mss 0229
Abstract

The papers of Bokara Legendre, a South Carolina-born socialite, writer, artist, performer, world traveler, and interviewer. The collection includes extensive diaries and photographs as well as other writings, biographical and family papers, and audiovisual materials.

Dates: 1927-2018; Majority of material found within 1955-2017

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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 1
 
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correspondence 15
clippings (information artifacts) 12
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genealogical tables 5
Charleston (S.C.) 3
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
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manuscripts for publication 3
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Europe -- Description and travel 2
Israel -- Description and travel 2
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 2
Jews in public life 2
Mexico -- Description and travel 2
Rabbis 2
Reform Judaism 2
South Carolina -- History 2
audiocassettes 2
certificates 2
color slides 2
compact discs 2
daguerreotypes (photographs) 2
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genealogies (histories) 2
journals (accounts) 2
manuscripts (documents) 2
memoirs 2
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passports 2
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poetry 2
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publications (documents) 2
school yearbooks 2
sketches 2
watercolors (paintings) 2
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Africa -- Description and travel 1
African American art -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
African American artists -- South Carolina 1
African American families -- South Carolina 1
African American newspapers 1
African American photographers 1
African Americans -- Relations with Jews 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Drayton Hall -- History 1
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Asia 1
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College teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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Confederate States of America -- Imprints 1
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Drawing, American -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
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Edisto Island (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Education -- Philosophy 1
Educators -- Correspondence 1
Egypt -- Description and travel 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Europe 1
Executives -- South Carolina 1
Funeral homes -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies 1
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Hidden children (Holocaust) 1
Highlands (N.C.) 1
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1
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Moses family 2
Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
Alston family 1
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American Textile Manufacturers Institute 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
Avery Normal Institute 1
Bailey family 1
Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Boroughs, Zig 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 family 1
Cohen, Eleanor H., 1839-1874 1
College of Charleston 1
Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
Confederate States of America. Army 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.) 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
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 1
Emanuel family 1
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958 1
FitzSimons, Mabel Trott, 1883-1979 1
Fitzsimmons family 1
Fort Sumter Memorial Commission (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Fortiere, Nancy Alston Siegling 1
Garfinkel family 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Good family 1
Gregorie family 1
Grice, George Daniel, 1900-1977 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
Harleston family 1
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
Harleston, Elise F. (Elise Forrest) 1
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 1
Haskell family 1
Hendricks family 1
Hendricks, Henry W., 1826-1898 1
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 1
Hughes, Horatio 1
Hunter College 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jervey, Theodore D. (Theodore Dehon), 1859-1947 1
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Keith family 1
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 1
Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Legendre family 1
Legendre, Bokara, 1940-2017 1
Lewisohn, Edna, 1908- 1
Lewisohn, James 1
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955 1
Lewisohn, Thelma Spear 1
Loeb family 1
Loeb, Jacob H., 1846-1893 1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
Mahon, Octavia 1
Manigault, Charlotte Drayton, 1781-1855 1
Marshall family 1
McCallum, Corrie, 1914-2009 1
Melnick, Ralph 1
Miguez, Andrena Bryan 1
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 1
Monitor (Ironclad) 1
Perdix, Elizabeth 1
Pitts, Sue A. 1
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921 1
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