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1886 Earthquake Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SCL-VM-201710013
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs and photomechanical images documenting the destruction caused by the 1886 earthquake in Charleston, Summerville, Aiken County, Berkeley County, and Charleston County, S.C.W.J. McGee, one of the first employees of the U.S. Geological Survey, compiled the following materials on the earthquake which struck near Charleston, S.C. McGee’s observations were rewritten for the 1887-1888 USGS report by Clarence E. Dutton, later published as The Charleston...
Dates:
1886
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
A Different Dixie
Collection
Identifier: COD0000091
Scope and Contents
The only known full-length copy of A Different Dixie, housed at the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina, is not a final copy as it lacks titles and credits and was probably a working copy. The rest of the films housed at MIRC, which came from SC-ETV, are the original camera footage from the project and consist of both film and magnetic media from the filming that occurred for this production, including outtakes (footage that was never used in the final...
Dates:
1983-1984
Found in:
Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC)
Abrant/Drummond films
Collection
Identifier: COD0000080-ACC undated-0012
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of nine 16mm WWII pilot films showing aerial attacks. The silent, black and white films depict the activities of the 19th Tactical Air Command and show gun camera footage.
Dates:
1944 May-1945 January
Found in:
Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC)
John Kenneth Adams Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-MUS-0012
Scope and Contents
The French music collection includes first editions by Massenet, Chabrier, Ravel, Falla, D'Indy, and Debussy and a series of 1930 copperplate engravings by Bernard Naudin depicting Beethoven and his Immortal Beloved. These engravings illustrate Ludwig von Beethoven in the context of his turbulent relationship with the Immortal Beloved (assumed to be Countess Therese von Brunsvik) and of the countess's proported connection to the Appassionata sonata. The Adams collection...
Dates:
1920-2008
Found in:
Music Library
African American History Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: SCL-VF-002
Dates:
1916 - 2001
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Aging/Elderly/Retirement Issues in South Carolina Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: SCL-VF-007
Dates:
1980-present
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Agriculture/Farming in South Carolina Vertical Files
Collection
Identifier: SCL-VF-008
Dates:
1973-Present
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
AIDS and sexuality ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2008-6
Scope and Contents
This collection is an organic compilation of ephemera originally found in multiple HIV/AIDS collections that came to the library at the same time, all primarily documenting HIV/AIDS in South Carolina. Items such as complete books (monographs) have been cataloged in Rare Books and Special Collections, but other, more ephemeral items and clippings, including a large collection of individual magazines, journals, and other periodicals with HIV/AIDS-related content were gathered here in this...
Dates:
1983 - 2010
A.J. Clement papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-12855
Scope and Contents
Upon the death of Charlestonian A.J. Clement, Jr. (1908-1986), the city's mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr., cited him as a pioneer among Black business leaders "during a time of changing attitudes of the white race toward race relations." Riley credited Clement with helping to hasten "this positive change which improved our community." Further declaring that the city had lost one of its most dedicated citizens, the mayor alluded to Clement's many and diverse commitments—"There were no community...
Dates:
1926 - 1986
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Alfred English Doby papers, selected items
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-4546
Scope and Contents
The three hundred and twenty-six manuscripts of this collection presents in miniature the social, economic, and political history of South Carolina. Maria Elizabeth Preston Means of Fairfield Dist., niece of Governor John Hugh Means, married in 1843 John English, doctor and planter of Richland Dist. One third of the collection is the correspondence of this family connection including letters of Harriet Flud Hampton and Sally Campbell Preston. Comments on domestic and plantation activities,...
Dates:
1836-1917
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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- Derrick, Butler Carson, Jr., 1936-2014 2
- Dos Passos, John (John Roderigo), 1896-1970 2
- Earle, Willie, 1922-1947 2
- Edens, J. Drake (James Drake), 1925-1982 2
- Edwards, James B. (James Burrows), 1927-2014 2
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 2
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