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Weldon James papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14144
Scope and Contents
The papers of Weldon Bernard James, reporter, columnist, editor, and U.S. Marine Corps Colonel, consist of 7.5 linear feet of topically arranged materials detailing his life and interests. Included in the collection are articles, biographical information, correspondence, identification papers, photographs, publications, writings, scrapbooks, and materials relating to James’ education, finances, and military service.
Articles in the Weldon James collection include both those written by...
Dates:
1928 - 1981
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
John Carl West Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JCW
Abstract
John West served his state and nation well as a soldier during World War II, as a member of the South Carolina Senate, 1955 to 1966, as Lieutenant Governor, 1967 to 1971, as Governor, 1971 to 1975, and as United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1977 to 1981. Returning from Saudi Arabia, West practiced law, lectured on government and the Middle East at the University of South Carolina, served as Chairman of the Board of the Seibels Bruce Insurance Company, and engaged in a number of...
Dates:
c. 1840s, c. 1857, 1905, 1924, 1938-2004
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Weyman family papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-7414
Dates:
1719 - 1934
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Charles H. Wickenberg, Jr. and Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-CHW
Abstract
Charles H. Wickenberg, Jr. enjoyed a distinguished forty-year career as a journalist, chiefly with The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. He served in the Marine Corps in both World War II and the Korean War, and subsequently as Gov. George Bell Timmerman's Executive Secretary from 1955 to 1958. In 1970, Wickenberg and 59 other journalists accompanied H. Ross Perot to Vietnam in his effort to negotiate for the release of American POWs. The collection also contains papers concerning the...
Dates:
c. 1835-2004
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Wil Lou Gray Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCL-VM-201507018
Scope and Contents
The Dr. Wil Lou Gray photographs consist of a wide variety of images pertaining to the South Carolina Opportunity School and its founder Dr. Wil Lou Gray. The photographs span from the 1930s to about 1970. The images are organized into the following categories:
the Opportunity School (which comprises images of classwork and activities, pilgrimages a nd field trips,
and the school’s building and grounds), students/graduates and families, alumni banquets/formal events at the Opportunity...
Dates:
circa 1930s-1970s
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Wilfrid Hardy Callcott papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14616
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection, approximately twelve linear feet, represent all phases of Wilfrid Hardy Callcott’s life and academic career. He carefully preserved his papers and letters from the time he was in grammar school and, after his death, his son George Hardy Callcott (b.1929), Professor of History at the University of Maryland, collected, organized, and annotated the family archive. As a result of that effort, the voluminous records of Callcott’s academic life have been preserved....
Dates:
1878 - 2003
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
William Belton "W.B." Boyle papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-10847
Scope and Contents
Bound volumes include 5 ledgers (1899-1912); 16 day books (1900-1914); 9 cash books (1900-1912); 2 guano books (1901-1918); 3 cotton books [purchases] (1902-1907); invoice book (1902-1903); 4 account books (1903-1917); cotton seed hull purchase book (1904-1907); 2 order books (1903 and 1907); letterbook (1904); livery stable rental book (1906); 6 stock books (c. 1907-1913); cotton ginning book (1908-1909); wagon, buggy, and horse sale book (c. 1913); and 6 miscellaneous volumes....
Dates:
1893-1918
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
William Bulluck and Fay Cornelia Ball King Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14129
Scope and Contents
"...my big idea in life is that I should experience as much of developing history as it is possible for me," wrote William King to Fay Ball on 31 May 1946. One and one-quarter linear feet of the papers of William Bulluck King and Fay Cornelia Ball document King's experiences as he did just that. The collection, which is divided between those materials pertaining to Fay and those pertaining to William, also includes a small unit of papers relating to William's sister, Margaret "Mary" Langston...
Dates:
1920-1976
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
William Bulluck King Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-14128
Scope and Contents
"Like the captain who hates the sea, I hate travelling despite the fact that I have spent most of my adult life in work involving constant movement, and frequent change of residence." This statement, written by William Bulluck King on 13 April 1954, gives readers a glimpse into his life. From covering World War II to embassy attachments around the world through the United States Information Agency, King spent over half of his sixty-two years traveling overseas.Three and...
Dates:
1929-1978
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
William Childs Westmoreland papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-WCM
Scope and Content Note
Spanning the twentieth century, this diverse collection of approximately seventy linear feet of the papers of William C. Westmoreland provides a critical perspective on three wars and other noteworthy events of the "American Century." The various materials document the General's military career; his personal and family life; his active schedule in the decades following his retirement; his libel suit against the CBS television network; and always above all, his staunch advocacy of...
Dates:
ca. 1900-2005
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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