Collected Civil War Papers of Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman
This collection contains the mementos Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Franklin Eshleman, a former commander of the Washington Artillery battalion, saved in his scrapbook. It portrays a civil war colonel’s dedication to preserving the memory of his unit along with a larger more important purpose of memorializing the era of the confederate soldier. The scrapbook and papers …
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Collected Papers of the Holland Family of Greenville County
A collection of personal and commercial documents created by or on behalf of members of the Holland family of Greenville. Includes eleven letters written during the Civil War, most of them from Confederate soldier Robert Holland to various family members.
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Collected Receipts of William Butler of Greenville
William Butler [1790-1850] moved to Greenville from Edgefield in 1825 where he began to practice as a country doctor. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and served as a surgeon during the War of 1812. In 1841, he was elected from Greenville District as a Whig to the twenty-seventh Congress, and eight …
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Collection of Bishop Patrick Lynch Confederate Commissioner Papers, 1864-1865
This collection contains materials relating to the commissioning of Bishop Patrick Lynch during the Civil War. Collection includes two commissions given to Bishop Patrick Lynch by Jefferson Davis, naming him special commissioner of the Confederate States of America to the State of the Church. One commission is signed by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate …
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College of Charleston Board of Trustees Minutes
This collection consists of typed College of Charleston board meeting minutes from 1791 to 2007.
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College of Charleston Buildings and Grounds Photograph Collection
The collection contains photographs of the College of Charleston campus through out the years. Photographs include the exteriors and interiors of buildings on the grounds. Also included in the collection are photographs chronicalling the construction of campus structures.
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College of Charleston Magazines
The College of Charleston Magazine was published monthly by the students of the College of Charleston during the academic year, under the auspices of the Chrestomathic Society. It’s aim was “to foster and encourage a literary spirit among the students, to bring the College more into public prominence than it has heretofore been, and also …
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College of Charleston Oral Histories
The College of Charleston Oral Histories collection seeks to preserve the history and culture of the South Carolina lowcountry through recorded interviews with area residents. Currently highlighted are interviews with production managers, directors, performers and behind-the-scenes contributors from Spoleto Festival, USA in Charleston, SC.
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College of Charleston Pamphlets
The College of Charleston Pamphlets collection is a growing collection of pamphlets digitized from the College of Charleston archive. The pamphlets originate from a selection of collections, including the Thomas Smith Grimke pamphlet collection.
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College of Charleston Publications
This collection contains periodical publications by the College of Charleston and organizations within the College. Currently featured is the triannual College of Charleston Magazine, and the Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World Connections newsletter, published twice a year by CLAW.
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College of Charleston Scrapbooks and Photo Albums
This collection highlights various albums and scrapbooks housed in the Special Collections department of the College of Charleston library.
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College of Charleston Stereoscope Views
The College of Charleston Stereoscope Views is comprised of black and white photographs of work on plantations in the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia. Scenes depicted of a rice raft carrying plantation hands, rice cultivation, cotton picking, and cottonseed oil production.
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Colleges of Greenville County
Institutions of higher education in Greenville County.
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Colleton County Memorial Library Bookmobile Collection
The Colleton County Memorial Library has provided bookmobile service since 1937, started by Isabel Patterson Heaton and Elma S. Rogers. The library continues to provide bookmobile service to rural areas and child care centers throughout the county. This collection features photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper articles from The Press and Standard, and a Library Week guest book.
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Colleton County Memorial Library Map Collection
The Colleton County Memorial Library Map Collection currently contains a sampling of images from the historic maps in the holdings of Colleton County Memorial Library. Included in this collection is the Jonah Horry Book of Maps, which features maps, surveys and charts drawn by John Goddard and John Horry Dent.
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Colleton County Memorial Library Minute Books and Ledgers
The Colleton County Memorial Library Minute Books and Ledgers Collection contains digitized minute books, record books and ledgers in the holdings of Colleton County Memorial Library. Featured in this collection is the Colleton County Highway Commission Ledger, which contains the handwritten minutes of meetings of the Colleton County Highway Commission between March 13, 1911, and …
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Colleton County Memorial Library Scrapbooks and Photograph Albums
The Colleton County Memorial Library Scrapbooks and Photograph Albums Collection contains a sampling of images from the scrapbooks, photo albums and other image portfolios in the holdings of Colleton County Memorial Library. Included in this collection is the Future Farmers of America Scrapbook, which features newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and other documents related to the …
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Color Slides from Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
Wide array of 35mm color slides, ranging from grounds of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie to images of illustrations and printed material.
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Color Slides of South Carolina State Parks
The Color Slides of South Carolina State Parks Collection is composed of images taken by staff of the South Carolina State Park Service from 1969 to 2007. This collection documents the administration and public use of the parks. It includes photographs of park scenery, recreational activities, historic sites, interpretive programs, maintenance work, natural and cultural …
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Columbia Army Air Base
The Columbia Army Air Base was established by United States War Department in West Columbia, South Carolina for training flight crews. Airmen flew on bombing missions at warfronts across the globe. These images were scanned from the personal collection of William Hamson, who served as an air base photographer from 1942 to 1945.
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Columbia Theater and Entertainment
A collection of programs and ephemera representing a long history of performance and entertainment in Columbia. This collection spans the twentieth century and features playbills and programs from the historic Town Theater and other local theatrical productions as well as novelties such as dance cards, movie memorabilia and event tickets.
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Columbia, SC City Directories 1859 –
This searchable collection of Columbia City Directories from 1859 is an invaluable source for historians and genealogists. City directories offer an alphabetized listing of residents and businesses as well as a street-by-street listing of occupants.
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Communities – City View
Collection of photographs from the City View area including residences, roads, and businesses.
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Communities – Five Forks
Collection of photographs and oral histories of the Five Forks area of Greenville County including donations and loans from the Five Forks Heritage Project.
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Communities – Fountain Inn
Collection of photograph from the Fountain Inn community including residences, roads, and businesses.
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Communities – Mauldin
Collection of photographs from the Mauldin community including residences, roads, and community centers.
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Communities – Sans Souci
Sans Souci was the former estate of Gov. Benjamin F. Perry (1805-1886). While the house burned in 1927, the surrounding community took the name. (see Residences and Country Club collections for more images)
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Communities – Simpsonville
Collection of photographs from the Simpsonville community in southern Greenville County including residences, businesses, schools, and roads.
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Communities – Travelers Rest
Collection of photographs from the Travelers Rest community including, residences, businesses, roads, and more.
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Community Food Bank of the Piedmont
The Community Food Bank of the Piedmont opened October 1982 on 7 W. Camperdown Way (Falls Park Dr.) in downtown Greenville before later moving to 8 Crigler St. The Greenville County Redevelopment Authority helped them remodel their space in 1983.
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Community Food Bank of the Piedmont
The Community Food Bank of the Piedmont opened October 1982 on 7 W. Camperdown Way (Falls Park Dr.) in downtown Greenville before later moving to 8 Crigler St. The Greenville County Redevelopment Authority helped them remodel their space in 1983.
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Conestee Mill
Conestee Mill, also known as Reedy River Factory, is located approximately 8 miles outside of the city along the Reedy River. It is the second textile mill on this site and operated from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Today the mill complex is home to a nature park and wildlife sanctuary.
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Confederate Military Correspondence
This collection contains correspondence dealing with the Confederate military. Collection highlights include a letter from General P. G. T. Beauregard to South Carolina Governor M. L. Bonham in 1863; a letter from Colonel Edward Manigault to South Carolina Governor F. W. Pickens in 1861; and a letter from Captain T. W. Daggett to South Carolina …
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Confederate Spartanburg
Despite resistance from many who hesitated to sever ties with the United States, the idea of Southern independence gained popularity as political rhetoric intensified between slave-holding and abolitionist states during the 1850s. In December of 1860, a convention of delegates from across the state took the initiative and repealed South Carolina’s 1788 ratification of the …
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Congarees Store Account Book, 1784-86
In 1765, James Chesnut and Joesph Kershaw established a trading post in Granby Village in an area known as ‘the Congarees’ along the Congaree River in South Carolina. The partial ledger digitized here, containing entries on customers and their purchases, tracks the post’s activity from June 1784 to September 1786. The names of notable South …
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Continental Army Southern Department Records, 1778-1890 (Bulk 1778-1780)
The Continental Army Southern Department Records and Order Book is a bound volume written to keep records & orders for the Southern Department of the Continental Army. The book contains six different sections: 1. Rules for the Formation of Troops, 2. Journal of the Campaign to the Southward (General Robert Howe’s expedition into East Florida, …
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Cora Godfrey Justice Family Papers, 1816-1987
The Cora Godfrey Justice Family Papers, 1816-1987 contain two loose papers kept by or for members of the family. Cora Page Godfrey Justice was a freelance writer and historiographer of St. David’s Church in Cheraw, S.C. She was the daughter of Cora Page and banker William Godfrey (b. 1870) and wife to John William …
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Corrie McCallum Papers, c. 1930-2003
William M. Halsey, an American artist (1915-1999), established the studio art program at the College of Charleston in 1964. He served as assistant professor and artist-in-residence at the College for nearly twenty years; upon his retirement the faculty voted unanimously to name the art gallery at the College in his honor. Corrie McCallum, Halsey’s wife, …
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Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantation Journals, 1865-1877
The Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantation Journals, 1865-1877 is comprised of four volumes written by Peter Gourdin that includes data for planting, personal information and clippings. The son of Samuel and Mary Gourdin, Peter Gourdin lived at Buck then Cote Bas Plantation and later settled at Mepkin Plantation with his wife, Constantia Harleston Moultrie Gourdin, …
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COVID Comments Oral History Collection
At the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, Professor Herbert “Tico” Braun at the UVA College of Arts and Sciences created a project with his students to record their experiences and thoughts during the COVID-19 pandemic. USC Upstate Archives and Special Collections was inspired to do something similar when all university courses …
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COVID-19 Oral History Collection
This collection was created in May 2020 as a product of a service-learning class taught in the Honors College at the University of South Carolina to document the perspectives and experiences of those impacted in a variety of ways by the COVID-19 pandemic, using oral history skills to tell the stories. The collection includes ten …
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Craft and Crum Families 1780-2007
The collection of artifacts pertaining tot he Craft and Crum families of the Lowcountry includes a myriad of materials; photo albums, letters, account books, and land deeds. The Craft Family Photo Album includes images of Craft family members, famous abolitionists, and other family friends, many of international historical significance. Also included in the collection are legal …
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Cranston Family Papers, 1822-1959
The Cranston Family Papers, 1822-1959, collection contains loose papers belonging to Harold Dener Cranston of Capers Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. Correspondence consists of letters (1850) from plantation owner James Vidal in Charleston (S.C.) to H. Cranston at Capers Island. Letters concern shipments of sugar and rice; repairs to boats; planting of corn; Vidal’s …
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Damage of Fort Sumter
Images of the damage sustained to Fort Sumter during bombardment. These images were given as gifts to attendees of the ceremonies of restoring the National Flag by Gen. Anderson on the Ramparts of the Fort on the 14th April 1865.
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David Wyatt Aiken Papers, 1849 – 1976
This collection contains letters and other materials surrounding the life of five-term U.S. congressman David Wyatt Aiken, who biographers have styled “South Carolina’s Militant Agrarian.” Born in 1828 in Winnsboro (Fairfield County, S.C.), Aiken served as a colonel in the Confederate Army and later went on to serve in the S.C. House of Representatives. He …
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DeBerniere Family Papers, 1790-1930 (bulk 1790-1860)
The DeBerniere Family Papers, 1790-1930 (bulk 1790-1860) contains a letter from 1853 kept by the DeBerniere family. The DeBerniere family’s presence in American began when John A. DeBerniere, a native of Ireland and a British army officer, immigrated with his family to America in 1799. The family first settled in North Carolina, and later resided …
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Development of the Printed Page
The images in this collection have been created from a portfolio of book and manuscript leaves that was compiled and sold by The Society of Foliophiles in 1964. The collection was released in an edition of 20 sets that each contained 135 examples, and was titled “The History of the Written Word.” By using actual …
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Diamond Fields of South Africa: Memories, Mines, and Minerals
In the Early 1870s, one of the greatest diamond rushes began in South Africa after the discovery of a valuable diamond on the Orange River. This collection consists of five items that represent some of the earliest publications describing the diamond fields of South Africa. Published between 1870 and 1917, this collection of monographs, essays, …
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Diaries
A collection of 19th and early 20th century diaries written by the following women: Caroline Crane Marsh, Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, Cloe Tyler Whittle Greene, and Grace (Gay) Latimer Whittle Sams.
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Dientje Krant Kalisky Adkins Photographs, 1938-1996
The Dientje Krant Kalisky Adkins Photographs is a collection of, mostly black and white, family photographs. The most photographed subjects include Dientje Krant, Gabriel DeLeeuw, and Roosje Krant. The last few photographs are color photos from 1950, 1967, and 1996, the latter of the entire family on Dientje’s parents 60th wedding anniversary in Charleston, South Carolina.