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Ron Rash archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2017-2
Scope and Contents
The Ron Rash archive spans the entirety of Ron Rash’s writing career, beginning with manuscript material from his 1994 collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth to his most recent work, the novel The Risen. Also included in the collection are early writings, including Rash’s first published short story, “Turtle Meat” from 1978; juvenilia including Rash’s personal journals, running journals, trout fishing journals and school work; correspondence between Rash and...
Dates:
1949-2018
Samuel Bloom World War I archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2004-2
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence between Pvt. Bloom and his family; his diary from the months before the war; additional autobiographical material; military documents; printed material including postcards, postcard books, and material related to his travels in France; photographs; and material related to the Université de Montpelier, where he studied in 1919.
Dates:
1917 - 1919
Sylvia Heller Gurian papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2005-10
Scope and Contents
This collection was created by Sylvia Heller Gurian, Joseph Heller's sister, and consists primarily of clippings, interviews and profiles, and reviews realted to Joseph Heller's career. In the mid-1990s, as Heller was writing his memoir of growing up in Brooklyn and his early life, Now and Then (1998), he sent draft chapters to Sylvia for comment and correction. These form the second major grouping in the collection, along with two folders of Heller family photographs, primarily of Joseph...
Dates:
1967 - 2002
Thomas Cooper Society papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1991-1
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of files relating to the Thomas Cooper Society, a friends group supporting the Library and in particular Rare Books and Special Collections, later the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, at the University of South Carolina. The Society was established to promote the Library and Library Services by sponsoring a variety of lectures, exhibits, and programs throughout the year. The Society also funded special acquisitions and special library...
Dates:
1988 - 2019
Vignettes of Theater from the 1850s to the 1920s
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2020-1
Scope and Contents
This collection was gathered by Betsy G. Miller and focuses on musicians and entertainers who performed on theatrical and other stages from the 1850s to the 1920s. The collection was organized in series based on the performer or family of performers that had 3 or more folders of material focusing on that act. The remaining performers were placed in the Various Performers and Events series, organized in alphabetical order.
Also included in the collection are photo albums and a scrapbook and...
Dates:
1850-2018
Virginia Spencer Carr collection of John Dos Passos photographs
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2018-1
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains photographs and negatives of John Dos Passos owned by Virginia Spencer Carr.
Dates:
1930-1970
W. Ormiston Roy papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2004-10
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a disparate set of materials by or collected by the Montreal landscape architect William Ormiston Roy (1874-1958) and reflecting some of his varied interests. Included are materials by or about the poet- naturalist John Burroughs and his physician-companion Clara Barrus; English followers and imitators of Walt Whitman; materials, newspaper clippings, about Robert Burns including information on the later sale of some of his works. The whole of the collection was...
Dates:
1888 - 2009
Wallace Markfield papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2002-2
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of outlines, drafts and proofs of his monographs, essays, and two unpublished plays.
Dates:
1971 - 2002
Wayne Yenawine collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-1981-2
Scope and Contents
Wayne Yenawine (1911 – 1981), was a professor of library science, a circulation librarian, and the first dean of Davis College. He came to USC in 1970 and was given a year to gather faculty for the college, and after that spent another year establishing curriculum for the students. Yenawine helped to open the college to its first students in 1972 and by summer of 1973 had graduated the first class. Under Yenawine, the College achieved American Library Association (ALA) accreditation in June...
Dates:
1937-1981
William Price Fox, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2000-3
Scope and Contents
William Price Fox, Jr. (1926-2015) was an author and educator from Columbia, South Carolina. He dropped out of high school to join the Air Force while the United States was involved in World War II. Fox lied about his age in order to enroll. After his military service ended, Fox finished his high school degree and graduated from the University of South Carolina. Following his graduation, Fox worked at a series of different jobs before starting to write professionally. He sold...
Dates:
1943-2007
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