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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
Anita Lobel archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2015-6
Scope and Contents
THIS COLLECTION IS CLOSED FOR PROCESSING.The Anita Lobel archive documents the life and work of the award winning children’s book author and illustrator, Anita Lobel. The collection was donated in late 2015 by Anita Lobel in honor of Ginger Shuler and Leslie Tetreault.
Lobel is known for her colorful illustrations and picture books including Allison’s Zinnia, Away from Home, So Happy and One Light, One Moon, winner of a New York Times Best Illustrated Book award and the first...
Dates:
1965-2016
C. P. Cranch papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2018-7
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of manuscripts written by Christopher Pearse Cranch (C.P. Cranch), including a hand-written autobiography, correspondence between C.P. Cranch and his family and friends, a scrapbook (mostly of published copies of C.P. Cranch’s work), and written notes and illustrations created by C. P. Cranch. The collection has been organized based on how his daughter, Leonora Cranch Scott, organized the documents while she was researching the materials for use in...
Dates:
1786-1932
Camilla Urso collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2009-3
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of memorabilia regarding the career of violinist Camilla Urso. The items included were separated into series based on the type of item. Included in the collection are correspondence, photographs, and programs for concerts in which Urso participated among other items. Of particular note is the silver laurel wreath presented to Urso by the Metropolitan Liedertafel Melbourne and the published version of an essay Urso wrote about learning to play the violin at the...
Dates:
1853 - 2011
C.E. Frazer Clark collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2004-11
Scope and Contents
The C.E. Frazer Clark collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne contains both primary and secondary materials gathered or produced by Clark (1926-1975) during his time studying the author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, Hawthorne is famous for short stories such as ‘Young Goodman Brown’ and the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. He frequently employed allegory and symbolism in his works which are considered a part of the dark romanticism movement....
Dates:
1865-2004
Charles Brandt papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2009-10
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of correspondence sent from Charles Brandt to his family during World War II, family photographs, various Americana, legal and governmental documents, military orders and correspondence, and awards and recognitions. Photographs are often glued in collages. The majority of this collection is fine to be handled, but some of the correspondence and albums are crumbling and therefore care is needed when handling these objects.
Dates:
1910-2008
Cleanth Brooks collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1998-1
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the life and work of Cleanth Brooks (1906 - 1994) considered to be one of the most influential scholars on William Faulkner, and a preeminent critic on Southern Literature. He changed the way poetry was taught, arguing for ambiguity and paradox as central concepts. Brooks helped to create formalist criticism and the principals of close reading. He founded the journal The Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren. Brooks’ best-known works include The Well-Wrought Urn:...
Dates:
1930-1994
Clifford Allen (Lord Allen of Hurtwood) papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1979-1
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the political life and works of the British pacifist, propagandist, and leftist organizer Reginald Clifford Allen, Lord Allen of Hurtwood, (1889-1939). The archive is a comprehensive collection of the author’s professional correspondence, manuscripts and speeches. It was acquired by the university in the mid- 1960s from Allen’s widow, Lady Allen, through the intercession of the British historian Martin Gilbert, who held a visiting position at the University of South...
Dates:
1911 - 1962
Collection of Joseph Heller manuscript and speeches
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2015-5
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notes for speeches and readings, including an annotated outline for a talk about Catch-22. Also included is a typescript draft of Heller’s final novel, Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man, dated October 8, 1999, two month before Heller’s death and including revisions that were not incorporated into the final version.
Dates:
1991-1999
Dashiell Hammett family papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RB-2015-1
Scope and Contents
On May 27, 1894, Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in Maryland the second of three children. When he was 13 he dropped out of school to help support his family. He joined the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1915. The time he spent here would be his inspiration for many of his infamous crime fiction and detective stories. At some point in his early years, Hammett dropped his first name, going by his middle name Dashiell or Dash.
When the United States joined the First World War, Hammett...
Dates:
1918 - 1999
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