notes (documents)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Brief statements of a fact or experience, written down for review, or as an aid to memory, or to inform someone else; also includes short, informal letters.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Lewis R. Gibbes papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0020
Abstract
Papers of Lewis R. Gibbes, Professor of mathematics, astronomy, and physics at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, from 1838-1892. Papers include materials relating to Gibbes' studies in France, assorted obituaries, eulogies, and memorials, his published papers and newspaper articles (collected into several scrapbooks) on his scientific work and other topics, assorted Elliott Society of Natural History materials, astronomical charts and calculations, assorted cartes de...
Dates:
1800s-1893, 1937
Found in:
Special Collections
Harrison Randolph papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0076
Abstract
Collection contains biographical information, personal diaries, correspondence, writings, teaching notes and other miscellaneous items of Harrison Randolph, President and Chair of Mathematics at the College of Charleston from 1897 to 1942. Papers include diaries from 1910 to 1941 except from mid 1928 to early 1931. Persons mentioned are M. Rutledge Rivers, George Daniel Grice, Thomas della Torre, James Harold Easterby, Horatio Hughes, Olin Burnham Chamberlain, and Williard Silcox Sr. Also...
Dates:
1885-1942
Found in:
Special Collections
Research notes on education in Charleston
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0100
Collection Overview
The collection consists of typescripts from the Charleston newspapers noting anything related to education. The information included is primarily about all aspects of the College of Charleston, but is often about private grammar schools and is sometimes about local scientific work. Meetings of scientific and literary organizations were regularly noted particularly those of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, whose museum became the basis for the College of Charleston...
Dates:
approximately 1934-approximately 1948
Found in:
Special Collections
Alvin Wilson Skardon notes
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0060
Collection Overview
Collection contains photocopies, typescripts, handwritten notes and tape recordings compiled by Skardon as research undertaken to prepare a history of the College of Charleston from 1785 to 1985. It is incomplete and is primarily concerned with the period from 1935 to 1970. The history prior to 1935 was to be based largely on J.H. Easterby's "History of the College of Charleston: Founded 1770" (1935). A draft of one chapter of Skardon's planned history was completed, and it covers the years...
Dates:
1985-1991
Found in:
Special Collections
Various documents, 1979, undated
File — Box 80, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript, "Lessons of the Holocaust: A Conference at the University of South Carolina," correspondence, and handwritten notes.
Dates:
1979, undated