This album consists of photographs taken at Pinehurst Tea Plantation located in Summerville, SC and owned by Professor Charles Upham Shepard Senior. The photographs depict the property, multiple tea gardens, tea processing, schools and other buildings located on the property, and tea plantation workers (including the African-American students who attended Pinehurst School).
This album consists of photographs on the subject of tea cultivation and life in Japan. The photographs in this album are hand-tinted color, albumen prints mounted on paper. All captions are from the album.
Anti-war comic entitled, "Vietnam," providing arguments against the Vietnam War with an emphasis on the injustices with regard to African American enlisted soldiers.
This is a photo album documenting a trip taken by a few members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina on September 13-14, 1950 to North Carolina to consider whether coastal South Carolina could capitalize on the grape and wine industry as NC had so successfully done. The group visits an experiment station, inspects different vineyards, observes a harvest, and learns about varieties of muscadine grapes.
This photograph album documents a trip taken by members of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina from February 13, 1950 to February 18, 1950. The group visits ranches, reservations and an experiment station to observe Florida's growing beef-cattle industry.
This collection consists of select photographs from the 'Charleston County Pasture Tour, 1951' photograph album. The photographs depict walks through pastures, cattle, demonstrations, group photos and a shared meal.
Based on the inscription and date, it is likely that this sketchbook was the joint work of two brothers, Alexander Fraser (1750-1798) and Charles Fraser (1782-1860). Highlights of this sketchbook include some of Charles Fraser's earliest Lowcountry landscape scenes, and several theatrical views, some of which may be the work of his brother, Alexander.
Photograph album of Laura M. Bragg, 1881-1978. Bragg was the founder and first librarian of the Charleston Free Library in 1931 and was the director of the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts from 1932-1939. Includes Citadel and Virginia Military Institute commencement invitations, postcards and photographs of Miss Bragg with Chinese cadets.
Scrapbook pages made of pink construction paper with a decorative vine theme, leaves made of green construction paper. Media types include photographs, newspaper clippings, typescript pages, correspondence, and invitations. All dated material generated in the 1970s.
This memorial photograph album documents the funeral of Moshe Yidel Gelbart. Gelbart died of appendicitis on February 25, 1935, in Mogielnica, Poland. The album, made of fabric and paper, contains black and white photographs that chronicle Gelbart's funeral procession, his casket, mourners, and gravesite, including an image of Gelbart with his wife and son eight days before his death. The cover of this book pictures a broken candle and a broken tree, symbolic of a life cut short. Each page includes decorative labels in Hebrew. This album was given to one of his two brothers, George Goldberg or Israel Geldbart, in South Carolina.
This 1941 false identification was used by Anna Philine Nathans-Paerl, mother of Vera Nathans. Anna used this identification during the war until it was discovered that she was Jewish and then she was sent to Bergen-Belsen.
Ticket from Wagener Day, May 22, 1902. (Back Side) This day was named for Captain F.W. Wagener, President of the Exposition Company and the donor of the land used for the Exposition. The highest attendance figures of the fair were recorded that day.;Photo from the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details of a fence. Back contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of details, stone ornaments, and decorative carvings on the arch piers of the Basilica di Santa Maria dell'Umilta? in Pistoia, Italy and other decorative carvings in Florence, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details including a grilled window, column caps, and capitals in the Museo di San Marco in Florence, Italy and windows on a farmhouse in Fiesole, Italy. Back contains drawings and descriptions of a diaper pattern in fresco from a 14th or 15th century room now in a museum in Florence, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains drawings and descriptions of various architectural details from Florence, Italy, including a column capital in the cloister of Santissima Annunziata. Back includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of the various architectural details of a wrought iron gate near Orsanmichele, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 42.5cm x 29cm. Front includes various drawings and descriptions of architectural details, including renderings of stone caps and lighting fixtures in San Domenico di Fiesole in Florence, Italy. Back contains architectural drawings, details of architectural vaults, and descriptions of an unidentified structure.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains a drawing, descriptions, and measurements of a small palazzo in Verona, Italy. Back includes drawings of various architectural details such as capitals and balconies in Verona, Italy, and a drawing of the entrance archway to a farmyard from an old farm near Siena in Tuscany, Italy.
40.5cm x 30.5cm, Front: Pencil on paper, back: work on paper. Front contains a drawing of a street scene and buildings in Charleston, South Carolina. Back includes a color image of a baby playing with a toy and reads "The First Love"
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front contains a drawing of the details in coffering in the stone barrel vault of the choir in the Church of Madonna del Umilita in Pistoia, Italy. Back includes a sketch of an unidentified street scene in Pistoia, Italy.featuring people and buildings.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of various architectural details including a stone window trim at the Museo nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy, and a decorative stone architrave around a small door opening in on the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. Back includes additional drawings and descriptions of architectural details in France. Including details in a small Louis XV salon at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, France and engaged colonnette shafts at the Bourges Cathedral in Bourges, France.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front depicts drawings and descriptions of a vestibule in the Piazza Santissima Annunziata as well as "heavy stone ribs supporting groined vaulting" in the Refectory, San Marco, Florence, Italy. The back contains drawings and descriptions of the stucco ceiling of the Entrance Lodge, Certosa Di Pavia in Lombardy, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 17.5cm x 12.5cm. Front includes a drawing of various details and measurements of an ornamental wrought iron fence painted black at an old house on the south side of Washington Square, and author's notes on the location and appearance of the fence. Back contains an unidentified drawing.
