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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
Andrew Charles Moore papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-7756
Scope and Contents
A.C. Moore papers, 1882-1941; (bulk, 1890-1926) consist of correspondence with faculty and administrators at USC and elsewhere (chiefly in Carton 4), zoological notes, and botanical drawings documenting the life of A.C. Moore (1866-1928), and his long association with the University of South Carolina and higher education, including correspondence and drawings from the period of his graduate and post-graduate studies (1898-1900 and 1925) in botany and genetics at the University of Chicago,...
Dates:
1882-1941
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Ball family papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-2097
Dates:
1731 - 1864
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Bessie Lee Garvin genealogical collection
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-11759
Genealogical Materials
Chiefly genealogical materials on the Agee, Asbill, Barnes, Bartlett, Bissell, Brodie, Bryant, Burckhalter, Busby, Butler, Chafee, Chavis, Chiles, Clark, Cloninger, Cook, Coon, Cooper, Corbett, Corbitt, Corley, Creed, Cropper, Crum, Day, Eis, Emanuel, Evans, Fanning, Foster, Galloway, Gardner, Garvin, Gordon, Green, Hankinson, Harden, Hargrove, Harley, Hasting, Hatcher, Hitt, Howard, Hudgins, Hydrick, Ingram, Jennings, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Joslin, Jumper, Kennedy, Kennerly, Kirk,...
Dates:
1828-1982
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Confederate Hospitals research files
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-13801
Dates:
1861 - 1991
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
David Rogers Chesnutt archive
Collection
Identifier: SCU-RBSC-2016-4
Scope and Contents
A pioneer in the field of digital humanities, David Chesnutt was born to Thomas Brice and Lena (Moss) Chesnutt in Athens, Alabama in 1940. Chesnutt expressed an interest in journalism from an early age, contributing pieces to school newspapers throughout his grade school years. He went on to write and edit for the University of Alabama newspaper and was awarded a degree in journalism from the university in 1962. After college he worked for the Alabama Journal for several years covering a...
Dates:
1946-2016
Edith Mitchell Dabbs papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-8243
Scope and Contents
The papers of Edith .Mitchell Dabbs (1906-1991) span the years 1791 to 1997 but the bulk of the papers date 1920 to 1980. Included in the collection are correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and notes. Units of materials reflect Dabbs' interest in the history of Penn School on St. Helena Island, and her desire to see it publicized.The primary focus of the collection is material compiled about Penn School and St. Helena Island by Dabbs. A native South Carolinian,...
Dates:
1791 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1980
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Ethel Evangeline Martin Bolden papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14957
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of approximately fifteen linear feet of manuscripts and related materials providing important insights into the life and work of educator, librarian, and community leader Ethel Martin Bolden (1918-2002) in Columbia and throughout the greater South Carolina area. Augmenting the collection is a unit of material associated with Ethel Bolden’s elder son, astronaut Charles Bolden, Jr. (b.1946). Bolden received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968,...
Dates:
1900-2002
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Francis Lieber papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-0324
Scope and Contents
Chiefly family letters, many written in German, with son, Oscar Lieber and others; correspondence and reports to presidents and the Board of Trustees of South Carolina College with suggestions and comments on conditions; together with journals, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes correspondence re publication of the Encyclopedia Americana. Lieber's teaching positions at S.C. College and Columbia University; the publication and editing of Lieber's writings; the...
Dates:
1808 - 1969
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Franklin Harper Elmore papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-0166
Scope and Contents
This collection is chiefly family correspondence which gives a glimpse of antebellum life. Gov. John Taylor agrees to the marriage of Harriet and Elmore in a letter, 17 Oct. 1826, and states "what I may [be] able to give as a Dowry . . . I claim the Right of giving as I have given to my Daughter Rebecca." Although the collection provides little information on Elmore's career as a lawyer, banker and U. S. Congressman — serving in both houses — correspondence with his family reveals him as a...
Dates:
1818-1877
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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