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Patricia Moore-Pastides Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2021-1
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of materials used in the making of Patricia Moore-Pastides’ cookbooks and history of the President’s House at the University of South Carolina. The collection was ordered in series based on content going to a particular book or in materials used for research. Each series is alphabetized starting with biographical which also contains her research materials and recipes used in the cookbooks, then goes by release date starting with the first Greek Revival: Cooking...
Dates:
2007-2019
Pittman Shay collection of Major General Ralph P. Cousins
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2017-1
Scope and Contents
Born in Texas on December 1, 1891, Ralph P. Cousins attended West Point Academy and went on to serve in the United States Air Force until his retirement in 1946. He was involved in the Mexican Expedition, fought overseas in World War I, and performed various leadership tasks before and during World War II. Cousins earned a Masters of Science degree at Yale University in 1922. During 1923, he oversaw Air Corps radio communications and installations, a system, which would eventually become the...
Dates:
1915-1965
Reviews on file collection: Literary Clippings
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1997-1
Scope and Contents
Over sixty authors represented include: Nelson Algren, Algernon Blackwood, Arna Bontemps, Ray Bradbury, Willia Cather, Winston Churchill, James Dickey, W/E.B. DuBois, Lord Dunsany, John D. Eisenhower, Robert A. Heinlein, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, LeRoi Jones, Robert Lowell, Somerset Maugham, Eugene O'Neill, Richard Nixon, J.C. Powys, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Anne Tyler, Robert Penn Warren, and Thornton Wilder. The files for Archibald MacLeish and Erich Maria...
Dates:
1927 - 1970
Richard Layman collection of Dashiell Hammett
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2015-2
Scope and Contents
The Richard Layman Collection of Dashiell Hammett contains the research materials used by Hammett researcher, Richard Layman in his years of study of the writer, Dashiell Hammett. It also contains material from the various books about Hammett that he either assisted with or wrote. Additional notes and description occur at the beginning of each series.
Dates:
1931 - 2015
Richard Layman collection of John Dos Passos
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2017-7
Scope and Contents
The Richard Layman collection of John Dos Passos contains both primary and secondary materials gathered or produced by Richard Layman in his extensive study of the artist and author Dos Passos.
John Dos Passos, born in Chicago in 1896, was an influential writer in the first half of the 20th century. After his graduation from Harvard in 1916, he served as a volunteer ambulance driver in France and Italy during WWI, eventually joining the United States Army Medical Corps. He would later travel...
Dates:
1900-2014
Richard Lemay papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2004-9
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the work of Richard Joseph Lemay (1916-2009), who was a scholar of medieval and Arabic philosophy and science. Lemay’s academic career spanned seven decades in three countries on two continents. His last appointment was as Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York (CUNY). He was a preeminent authority on the twelfth-century transmission of Arabic knowledge to the Western world. His 1962 historical narrative Abu Ma‘Shar and Latin Aristotelianism in the...
Dates:
1962 - 2004
Robert B. Ariail papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2011-1
Scope and Contents
Robert B. Ariail was an insurance agent who was an avid amateur astronomer. This collection contains items related to his interest in astronomy.As an astronomer, one of Ariail’s primary endeavors was to purchase and restore antique telescopes. To this end he collected old telescope catalogs that would allow him to see how the telescopes first appeared. He also corresponded with many other amateur astronomers with whom he swapped photocopies of research material useful for...
Dates:
1815 - 2011
Robert Lee Oakman archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2018-2
Scope and Contents
This collection contains manuscripts of Oakman’s innovative research as part of his dissertation and the creation of the Computer Science department at the University of South Carolina as well as manuscripts of Oakman’s books and computer programs, documents related to his frequent participation in international and national conferences, grant administration and teaching. Of particular interest are the various computer storage media within the collection. Beginning with early computing on...
Dates:
1958-2017
Robert Middendorf and Rodger Tarr collections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Collection
Identifier: MSS-RBSC-2005-11
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the materials of Robert D. Middendorf and Rodger L. Tarr that related to author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was an American author of young adult novels. A Florida native, she often used her rural surroundings and upbringing to lend reality to her fiction. Rawlings was a prolific writer, her body of work including novels, short stories, and poetry, along with consultation on films inspired by her work.The Middendorf...
Dates:
1939 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1950
Robert S. Chamberlain Collection of Military medals and coins
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RB-2014-1
Scope and Contents
The Robert S. Chamberlain Collection of Military Medals and Coins contains military medals, Greek and Roman coins, Civil War documents, and military figurines collected by the Latin American historian Robert Chamberlain (1903-1981), mostly during the late 1960s and 1970s. The collection also documents Chamberlain’s research in Hispanic American history during the colonial period and railroads. Robert Stoner Chamberlain was born in Canton, Ohio, on October 13, 1903. He received a B.A. in...
Dates:
-392 - 1984
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