Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Exterior view of front of building and portion of garden. Caption on back: "Charleston (S.C.) Free Library. 1934-1960."
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Group of children sitting and standing around a small pond in the garden of the library. Caption on back: "From Miss Janie Smith. Charleston Free Library. Charleston, South Carolina."
A record of tasks completed between 1731-1771 that includes placing shingles on the house at Comingtee Plantation, accounts with carpenters and work on the gardens at Comingtee and Kensington Plantations. Makes notation that the enslaved persons Salsbury, Manny, Easter and Pompey worked on the garden at Kensington Plantation.
A letter from Elias Ball III in Charleston, South Carolina to his brother Isaac Ball at Kensington Plantation discussing old schooners filled with dirt to be sunk in "Hog Island Crick" to "prevent men of war cuming up that way." However, Elias Ball III recounts that Captain Tufts, after sinking three of the four boats, was discovered, and fired upon. The other side of the letter discusses the crop at Comingtee Plantation and allowing the enslaved person Pompey to have nails to finish the garden.
Main caption: 'Incidents of the Earthquake at Charleston.--drawn by Schell and Hogan.--[see page 590.]' Caption top left: 'In front of the Charleston Hotel.' Caption top right: 'looking over the roofs.' Caption middle: 'A camp on the East Battery.' Caption bottom left: 'The front wall gone.' Caption bottom center: 'In a rich man's garden.' Caption bottom right: ' On the track.' [full date September 11, 1886.]
Photographs showing the grounds of the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition. The photographs show exhibits such as the Sunken City, the Cotton Palace, and the Administration Building. The accompanying article talks about the exhibits and how the president, Theodore Roosevelt, would visit the Exhibition in February.
This album consists of photographs of Ethel, Stephen, Sarah Jane, and Gertrude Sanford. Photos show Stephen Sanford at St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and the Sanfords traveling in South Carolina, New Jersey, New York, England, France, and Belgium.
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Children's librarian Janie M. Smith seated with children on lawn. Caption: "A story hour in the garden of the library. Dec. 1943."
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Children's librarian Janie M. Smith seated with children on lawn. Caption: "Story hour in the library garden. Dec. 1943."
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Children's librarian Janie M. Smith seated with children on lawn. Caption: "Story hour in the library garden. Dec. 1943."
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Seven women standing in garden in front of library. Emily Sanders at far right. Caption on front: "May 15, '48. Sluesing, Raisin, James, Fogarty, Harleston, Wooten, Sanders." Caption on back: "Sluesing, Geraty, Snyder, Wooten."
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Four women standing in garden in front of library. Caption on front: "May 15, '48. Allen, Fogarty, Snyder, Mosimann." Caption on back: "Sluesing, Geraty, Snyder."
Main Library, 94 Rutledge Avenue. Caption on back: "May 1954 Post. Story hour. Janie M. Smith, children's librarian. Frances Blakeney, assistant. 94 Rutledge Avenue garden. May, 1954."
