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George Bowman Hartness Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14084
Dates:
1782 - 1995
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Harold R. Carter papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-15563
Scope and Contents
The papers of Harold R. Carter consist primarily of correspondence to his fiancé, later his wife, Sara Campbell of Rock Hill and Spartanburg, South Carolina. His letters are filled with longing for her and for a swift end of the war so that he can come home. She visited him in Arkansas in March 1942 and they eloped. While stationed overseas in North Africa and Italy, he makes few comments about his surroundings or where he is located. He remarked in a letter of 4 March 1944 that “We were...
Dates:
1942 - 1982
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Harold Simmons Tate papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14863
Scope and Content Note
The Tate Collection consists of approximately eighteen linear feet of material representing every period of Harold S. Tate’s professional career. The earliest items in the collection date from 1922, just after Tate began his undergraduate studies at Clemson College, while the most recent are from the early 1980s. The collection is arranged and described in five series: Correspondence; Family Papers; Topical; Photographs; and Drawings, Greeting Cards, Postcards, Prints and Sketches. Within...
Dates:
1922-1981
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Jak Smyrl Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14uuuu
Scope and Contents
Thirty cartons plus forty-seven oversized, 3” deep flat file boxes, 1923-2014, of correspondence, personal papers, photographs, and artwork, reveal the life and work of this South Carolina artist who spent his entire working career (1949-1987) as the illustrator for The
State newspaper. The single largest unit of materials in the collection consists of Smyrl’s artwork, most of it primarily created daily for the newspaper. Covering everything from local to global news, this
artwork especially...
Dates:
1923 - 2014
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Jennie Clarkson Dreher papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-15025
Summary
Papers, 1797, 1859-1994 and undated, consisting of manuscripts, bound volumes,
pamphlets, and photographs collected by Jennie Clarkson Dreher. Speeches given in
Columbia, Gainesville, FL, and Wilmington reflect her interest in the preservation of
historic buildings and gardens, the Robert Mills House and the Boyleston Gardens
being two examples. Pamphlets issued by the Historical Commission of South
Carolina, 1898-1947, promotional material for Chicora College, 1916, and yearbooks of
the...
Dates:
1797-1994; Majority of material found within 1898-1994
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Poliakoff's Department Store records
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCL-MS-14092
Scope and Contents
Specimen order forms and correspondence files, with letters, catalogs, circulars, inventories, and miscellaneous business records; also includes 1943 employees' tax ledger and other materials documenting the impact of World War II on retail businesses and other commercial enterprises.
Dates:
1942 - 1967
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Samuel Lowry Latimer papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-13075
Abstract
Samuel Lowry Latimer, Jr. (1891-1975) was an editor, publisher, and editor emeritus of the Statenewspaper, in Columbia, SC. He was also the author of the paper's offical history, The Story of the State.
Dates:
1840-1975; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1975
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Saussy Family papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14415
Scope and Content
Five linear feet, 1616, 1693, 1830-2003, consist of personal papers and genealogical materials pertaining to the Perry, Saussy, and related families, whose ancestry is traced to the Shetland Islands, England, Canada, and the United States.The Wade Hampton Perry family lived in Charleston, South Carolina, but often visited relatives in England. They owned a home in Highlands, North Carolina, named Highfield after the ancestral home in England of Florence Charlotte Cropp Davies...
Dates:
1616-2003; Majority of material found within 1830 - 2003
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Wolfe and Ulmer families papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14214
Selected Calendar, 1937-1945, of Quotes in the Papers of the Wolfe and Ulmer Families, 1885-1956
Background:
Residents of Columbia, S.C.; Lieutenant Oliver Jordan Wolfe (1919- 2002) served in in the 25th Statistical Control Unit, which was attached to the Thirteenth Army Air Force, also known as “the Jungle Air Force” for it frequent relocations among the islands north of Australia and New Guinea. His young bride, Marie Virginia Ulmer Wolfe (b. 1921), remained home in South Carolina during the war....
Dates:
1885-1953
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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