South Carolina Hospital Postcards
The South Carolina Hospital Postcard collection includes postcards representing hospitals throughout South Carolina. The postcards provide a visual record for hospitals that may no longer exist or have changed location, and reflect the ways that hospital architecture has changed over time.
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
South Carolina Historical Society Oral Histories
Interviews with Charlestonians of various backgrounds, recorded in the 1970s and 1980s. The subjects talk about growing up in Charleston and cover such topics as preservation, race relations, the Exposition of 1901, and Charleston’s involvement in World War I and World War II.
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
South Carolina Historical Society Manuscripts
Selections from the manuscript collection of South Carolina Historical Society. The first addition to this collection is a journal written by Peter Timothy during the Revolutionary War, detailing troop activities in Charleston.
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
South Carolina Department of Transportation County Road Maps
This is a collection of over 700 South Carolina county road maps from 1930s to the 1990s, courtsey of the University of South Carolina Thomas Cooper Map Collection.
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
South Carolina Bookmobiles Collection
The South Carolina State Library and the South Carolina Digital Library present the South Carolina Bookmobiles Collection, a collection of historical and contemporary images from the 1940s to the early 2000s. The photographs are from the archives of the South Carolina State Library and many were taken by State Library field agents. Portrayed in photographs …
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
South Carolina Artifact Documentation Project
Divers have been exploring the rivers and coastal waters of South Carolina since the early 1960’s when SCUBA as a sport was in its infancy. The South Carolina State Legislature first enacted an Underwater Antiquities Bill in 1968 which was intended to protect historic shipwrecks and other submerged cultural resources. In 1974 a Hobby Diver …
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
Stereographic Views of South Carolina
This group of 74 stereographs contains images of the damage to Charleston during the Civil War, along with images of Folly and Port Royal Islands. Forts, churches, hospitals and headquarters come to life in these photographs taken by war photographers such as Samuel A. Cooley and John P. Soule. Spanning both the period of the …
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
Spartanburg County in World War I Collection
This collection is a selection of items including photographs, postcards, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and letters that describe experiences of World War I soldiers in the Spartanburg area. Most items are about Camp Wadsworth and included are a map, materials from the Camp library, and images from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. There is a …
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
Transportation in Greenville County
Methods of transportation from Greenville’s past.
Quick Access:
View Partner Collection Homepage / View in Discovery
Topographical Maps of South Carolina, 1888-1975
Measuring 14 ½ x 20 inches the Polyconic Projections were first published in the late 19th Century. Some were produced by the Army, others by the Corps. of Engineers and the remainder were produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The scale is 1:62500. The contour intervals vary. Measurements are shown in miles, feet …