Black-and-white photograph depicting image of Dunvegan Castle. Front of image reads, "over." Writing on back of image reads, "Dunvegan Castle. Skye. Aug 1929. Kodak picture by M.W. McLeod."
Black-and-white photograph with image of castle. Writing on front of image reads, "Over." Writing on back of image reads, "Dunvegan Castle, Skye. August 1929. Kodak picture by W.M.McLeod."
Black-and-white photograph depicting view of Loch as seen from the top of Dunvegan Castle. Writing on front of image reads, "over." Writing on back of image reads, "View from top of Dunvegan Castle, Skye, August 1929. Kodak picture by M.W. McLeod."
Black-and-white photograph with image of man in full Scottish dress wear looking out over loch. Writing on back of image reads, "Skye, Scotland. Dunvegan Castle. Chief of MacLeod Clan."
Black-and-white photograph depicting the top of Dunvegan Castle. Writing on front of image reads, "over." Writing on back of image reads, "Top of Dunvegan Castle- Skye. Aug. 1929. Kodak picture by M.W.McLeod."
A black and white photograph of members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina posing together at the United States Sea Island Cotton Experimental Farm. A list of all pictured is available on the back of the photograph.
A color photograph of four men and a two-horse walking plow in a cultivated field at Harrison's Farm. On the top of the picture the caption 'Lanham Cotton Cultivator' is barely visible.
A black and white photograph of Agricultural Society of South Carolina members mounted on a brown piece of paper with a caption in white handwriting. It reads, 'Field meeting at U.S. Cotton Field Station. Sea Island Cotton Experiments.'
A color photograph of a parade float sponsored by the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, Charleston County Department of Natural Resources, and the Charleston Agricultural and Industrial Fair (November 11-16, 1929). The three are 'Partners Promoting Progress.' The float participated in a parade celebrating the opening of the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge (also known as 'the old Cooper River Bridge'). Five girls dressed as field hands ride the float alongside a pyramid decorated with vegetables: Julia Frampton, Annette Remington, Rosa Belle Blank, Louise Brown, and Isabel Frampton (one may not be pictured). Special attention is paid to the iodine in vegetables and its health benefits.
Anita Pollitzer and Elie Edson at Muir Woods, 1929. On back on photograph: “To Mrs. Pollitzer: With love for her birthday, March 5th, 1930, we send this souvenir of one of our happiest days in California, when we played, as little children in fairy stories, alone in the Muir Woods, a glorious grove of Red Wood Trees – one thousand years old! Beneath our feet the dead leaves of many, many generations made a carpet of exquisite springy softness. The sunlight above could hardly find its way down to us through the thick foliage and so to get these photographs, we faced a long exposure of several minutes, scarcely daring to breathe! Elie.” Also, in pencil “#4 Dec. 22 ’29.” Photograph was taken by “F. Ransome, fotographer at Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods, California 5701 Vallejo St., N.W. Cor. Stanford Ave. Oakland, Cal.” Black and white photograph.
A color photograph of laborers harvesting potatoes and putting them into barrels in the background while E.W. King [?] observes. Photograph has a caption on the front that reads, '120 bshls [bushels] per acre. E.W. King - St Andrews Parish [Charleston] S.C. 1929.'
A black and white photograph of several men during a fertilizer inspection at Rocket Hall Plantation. The names of those individuals are on the back of the photograph.
A black and white photograph of S.E. Welch, then president of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, and D.M. Simpson, then Manager of the United States Sea Island Cotton Experimental Farm standing in a large field.
Black-and-white photograph of flowers around a headstone.Writing on back of image reads, "Grave of Mrs. W.W. Mleod. May 1928. St. James Church Yard, James Island."
This diary, written by an unnamed member of the McLeod family, contains entries throughout 1927 and October 1931. Most entries concern the weather, the author's health, and author's interactions with various friends and family members.
“Stories Collected from Slaves” by Leonarda J. Aimar is a bound volume of formerly enslaved people's stories. In her transcription, she attempted to capture the storytellers’ colloquial speech, now recognized as the Gullah language. The volume includes a list of addresses, occupations, and diseases of African Americans during their enslavement; an eye-witness account of the Battle of Secessionville on James Island during the Civil War in 1862; how enslaved people were returned to their slaveholders following the Revolutionary War; and an account of Sherman's march from Savannah, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved man, Sam, provides a detailed account of being a butler, coachman, and horse jockey. He also recounts how Union Army Major Robert Anderson took control of Fort Sumter and the events that transpired there on April 12, 1861. Other accounts include an enslaved man’s recollections of his time as a servant to a plantation overseer who sympathized with the Union during the Civil War and formerly enslaved man Jim Alston’s detailed eye-witness account of the 1876 Cainhoy Riot.
Black-and-white image depicting east view of McLeod Plantation. Writing on back of image reads, "McLeod house. James Island - East View. Kitchen added about 1905. About 1926-'30. House built 1854."
A color photograph of members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina in front of a house. There is an unidentified man holding a large trophy in the middle of the photograph.
A color photograph of members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina in front of a house. There is an unidentified man holding a large trophy in the middle of the photograph.
The Jewish Woman is a quarterly magazine published by the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) between 1921 and 1931 and was created to give the world 'its first organized record of Jewish womanhood's aspirations and successes.' Publication of The Jewish Woman coincided with the council's objective of expanding its membership and influencing various social issues of its day. This issue highlights the rural activities of the council.
Black-and-white image depicting unidentified man with dog in front of McLeod Plantation. Inscription on back of image reads, " The Boss. McLeod residence, James Island, north side as it originally looked until portico was built in 1923. This picture was taken about 1921."
The Direleton Plantation Memorandum Book was kept by James Ritchie Sparkman beginning in the 1850s; changes in handwriting indicate additional authors and additional uses into the 1900s. The book contains slave records. Records includes slave births, slave deaths, purchases of slaves, sales of slaves, family seperation, measurements for clothing, distribution of blankets, and labor tasks. The book also contains lists of first and last names of agricultural workers after the American Civil War and figures, likely wages paid. There are account records kept for purposes of the Internal Revenue Services, Confederate taxes and bonds, personal and agricultural work purchases, and financial transactions with B.M. Grier, Eliza S. Heriot, Dr. R.S. Heriot, A.G. Heriot (with signed receipts), M.E. Heriot (with signed receipts), and G.A. Thorne. There are transactions with other plantations recorded including Cornhill Plantation, Northampton Plantation, and Birdfield Plantation. There is information on livestock, wines removed from the plantation, and rice sales.
One of three scrapbooks compiled by William Henry Johnson containing, among other materials, photographs depicting scenes of the South Carolina Lowcountry, with descriptive notes. Volume 1 includes photographs depicting cemeteries, churches, plantations, historic buildings, ruins, landscapes, and the interiors of buildings. Subjects include locations in Berkeley County, St. Johns (Berkeley) Parish, Goose Creek, and along the Cooper River. Other sites and subjects include Belmont, Black Oak Church, Bluford, Casada, Cedar Grove, Cedar Spring, Comingtee, a Prioleau family burial ground, Crowfield, Dean Hall Plantation, Dockon Plantation, Eutaw, Eutaw Springs, Exeter, Fairspring, Fort Dorchester, Four Hole Swamp, Gippy, Gravel Hill, the gravestone of Susan Bee, Hanover Plantation, Indian Fields Campground, Ingleside, Indianfield, Liberty Hall Club, Lewisfield, Magnolia Cemetery, monument of Col. Hezekiah Maham, grave of Major Majoribanks, Medway Plantation, Mepkin, a milestone by the Cooper River, Moorfield, Mount Pleasant Plantation, Mulberry Castle, North Hampton, Numertia, The Oaks Plantation, Ophir, Otranto Hunting Club, Parnassus, Pimlico, Pinegrove, Pond Bluff, Pooshee Plantation, John Poppenheim's plantation, Quarter house, Red Bank Hunting Club, an Episcopal church in Pineville, Rice Hope Plantation, The Rocks, St. James Goose Creek church, St. Johns Berkeley rectory site, St. Johns AME Church, a St. Julien family house, a Santee Canal lock, "Sarrazin house," a shanty, Somerset Plantation, Somerton Plantation, "Francis Marion spring," Springfield, Stoney Landing, Strawberry Chapel, Ten Mile Hill, Thoroughgood, Wadboo Barony, Wadboo bridge, Walnut Grove, Walworth, Wampee, Wampoolah, Wappetaw, Washington Plantation, the Whaley place, White Hall, Wiskinboo, Woodlawn, and Yeamans Hall.
A notebook (ca. 1920) containing reminiscences by Rose P. Ravenel, who writes about her girlhood, her relationship with her "mammy" and her French nurse. She describes life at Farmfield Plantation during the Civil War, knitting socks for Confederate soldiers, making paper and envelopes, salt production, molasses candy, flower dolls, and the family's hardships after the Civil War.
A color photograph of three men standing off in the distance at T. Farms. 'Melehers [?] , Chas., S.C.' is embossed on the bottom right of the photograph.
Three black and white prints of a photograph taken at T. Farm in 1919. One of the prints is cropped while the other two are full-size. Caption on cropped print reads, 'Luxuriant growth of cotton & corn on old Rice Field. At E.W. Durant's T. Farm-1919.' The other two prints both have the caption, 'T. Farm 1919.'
A color photograph of a large dinner and meeting of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina at T. Farm, a livestock farm owned by Edward Warburton Durant, Jr. located in Rantowles, SC (now Hollywood, SC).
Black-and-white photograph of a man holding the hand of a young girl. Writing on back of image reads, "1915 Baltimore. Russian immigrant being detained for deportation. Old man & grand child."
A black and white print of a black and white photograph of a large group taken at Drainland . Underneath the photograph is a caption, 'Drainland 1915.'
A color photograph printed on cardboard of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina gathered for a meeting at the South Carolina Coast Experiment Station. The topic appears to be soil.
Anita Pollitzer and Elie Edson in group on boat. Caption on back of photograph reads: “Anita and Elie, far left, Anita holding hat, Elie behind, on boat.” Black and white photograph, c 1900.
A color photograph of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina gathered for a meeting at the South Carolina Coast Experiment Station. The topic appears to be soil.
A black and white photograph of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce corn exhibit at the arcade mall in Columbia, South Carolina. The exhibit took place during the National Corn Show which was being held in Dallas, TX on February 10-24, 1914. A pennant reading, 'Charleston, SC' can be seen hanging in one of the windows among other patriotic decorations. Two men, W. McLeod Frampton and L.H. Mixson are in the photograph by the exhibit.
Black-and-white image of man on boat. Inscription on back of image reads, "Capt. H.J. Flynn on Schooner Helen H. Benedict heading for New York August 1912 from Charleston S.C."
Black-and-white image of two men on deck of boat, one holding a fish. Inscription on back of image reads, "W.E. McLeod on right with member of crew holding a dolphin just caugh. On schooner Helen H. Benedict heading for New York August 1912."
Black-and-white image of two people on deck of schooner, one at the wheel. Inscription on back of image reads, "Capt. H.J. Flynn right, of the schooner Helen H. Benedict bound for New York August 1912 from Charleston S.C."
Black-and-white image of two men sitting on deck of schooner. Inscription on back of image reads, "Captain H.J. Flynn- right and mate. Schooner Helen H. Benedit heading for N.Y. August 1912."
