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1. Descriptive List of Free Negroes Belonging to City Engine No. 7 [Copy 1]

Descriptive List of Free Negroes Belonging to City Engine No. 7 [Copy 1]
Date:
1864
Description:
List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 7, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. This copy is missing one name due to a tear in the page, but the information is available in the second copy. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

8. (Fire) Engine House, No.1

(Fire) Engine House, No.1
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.161, Engine House No.1. Chalmers Street.'

10. 119 Meeting Street

119 Meeting Street
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.139, 119 Meeting Street, front.'

11. 119 Meeting Street

119 Meeting Street
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.140, 119 Meeting Street, rear.'

13. Pictorial History of the War of 1861

Pictorial History of the War of 1861
Date:
1862
Description:
Caption: 'No.673--Battle between the "Bohemian Brigade" of correspondents and special artists, and the mosquitoes and gallinippers of the Southwest.'

15. Pictorial History of the War of 1861

Pictorial History of the War of 1861
Date:
1862
Description:
Caption: 'No.670.--A portion of the First South Carolina Contraband Brigade leaving Beaufort for Hilton Head, on board the steamer Mattano.'

17. Charleston Signal Book, 1863

Charleston Signal Book, 1863
Date:
1863
Description:
These images are from the Signal Book kept by Union Officer Ensign LaRue P Adams during the Siege of Charleston between August and September of 1863. Note: Some pages were not scanned because they were blank and contained no content or were ripped out and were therefore unavailable for digitization.

19. Descriptive List of Free Negroes Belonging to City Engine No. 7 [Copy 2]

Descriptive List of Free Negroes Belonging to City Engine No. 7 [Copy 2]
Date:
1864
Description:
List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 7, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. This copy is alphabetized, but omits most of the firefighters' full first names. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

25. 21 King Street

21 King Street
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Sign at bottom of image: 'Mr. August Melm's room, 21 King Street.' Also, written on front, at bottom: 'Earthquake - Charleston S.C. 1886.' Charleston city directory for 1886 lists August Melm, a local attorney, as boarding at 21 King Street.

26. 25 Legare Street

25 Legare Street
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.92, No.25 Legare Street.'

27. 26 East Battery, C.H. Drayton residence

26 East Battery, C.H. Drayton residence
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Written on reverse: 'Residence of C.H. Drayton. 26 East Battery. S.W. corner of Atlantic. 1886 Earthquake.'

28. 3 Meeting Street

3 Meeting Street
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.113, No.3 Meeting Street.'

29. (Fire) Engine House, No.5

(Fire) Engine House, No.5
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.35, No.5 Engine House.'

31. Letter from Abner Nash to Nathanael Greene

Letter from Abner Nash to Nathanael Greene
Date:
1781-05-07
Description:
Letter from Abner Nash to Nathanael Greene reporting on the state of affairs in South Carolina and North Carolina; requesting aid in opposing Lord Cornwallis in North Carolina.

32. Letter from Abraham Lott to Nathanael Greene

Letter from Abraham Lott to Nathanael Greene
Date:
1779-09-18
Description:
Letter from Abraham Lott to Nathanael Greene regarding his poor health, family, and the current state of military affairs, including the enemy retreat from Charlestown, where their current strong holds are, and movements of companies of men.

33. Letter from Abraham Lott to Nathanael Greene

Letter from Abraham Lott to Nathanael Greene
Date:
1778-10-24
Description:
Letter from Abraham Lott to Nathanael Greene regarding the failure of the ‘Rhode Island Expedition,’ led by Comte d’Estaing, and general social writing.

34. Accomodation Wharf

Accomodation Wharf
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Possibly from Cook's Earthquake views, No.157, scene near Accomodation Wharf. Written on front, at bottom: 'Charleston Earthquake Scene - ruins on Accomodation Wharf.' Charleston city directory for 1886 lists Accomodation Wharf as opposite 176 East Bay Street.

36. Letter from Major General Nathanael Greene addressed to Arthur Campbell

Letter from Major General Nathanael Greene addressed to Arthur Campbell
Date:
1781-02-26
Description:
Letter from Major General Nathanael Greene addressed to Arthur Campbell regarding the ongoing hostilities in the states of North Carolina and Virginia. Greene is advising Campbell on how to best achieve peace with the Cherokee and Chiccasaw Native American tribes.

37. Adger's Wharf

Adger's Wharf
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.159, Storehouses Adger's Wharf.' Charleston city directory for 1886 lists Adger's Wharf as opposite Tradd Street on East Bay.

38. Meeting Street, African-American school house

Meeting Street, African-American school house
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Possibly from Cook's Earthquake Views. No.39, Colored school house, Meeting Street [captioning missing, handwritten note references that line].

39. Letter from Francis Barber to William Alexander [Lord Stirling]

Letter from Francis Barber to William Alexander [Lord Stirling]
Date:
1778-10-09
Description:
Letter from Francis Barber to William Alexander [Lord Stirling] regarding his reluctance to be kept from the fray by an injury and to express upon Lord Stirling the necessity of additional troops to safeguard the stores near Elizabethtown.

40. Alexander Street, residence

Alexander Street, residence
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.186, Residence on Alexander Street.'

41. Bedon's Alley

Bedon's Alley
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charlston and Vicinity. Series No.2. No.165, ruins in Bedon's Alley.'

42. Bedon's Alley

Bedon's Alley
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake Scene. Possibly copy of Cook's Earthquake Views (Series No.2) No.121, Bedon's Alley.

43. East Battery, Alston residence

East Battery, Alston residence
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.66, _____ Alston, East Battery.' Charleston city directory for 1886 shows various members of the Alston family at 21 East Battery.

44. East Battery, Edmondston Alston House

East Battery, Edmondston Alston House
Date:
1886
Description:
Charleston Earthquake scene. Written on reverse: 'East Battery, just below Atlantic Street. Edmonston [sic] House, later the Charles Alston residence. Now (1947) the residence of J.J. Pringle Smith. Old Holmes house on left. Earthquake of 1886 - Charleston, S.C.'

46. Picturesque America

Picturesque America
Description:
[Color image.] Caption: 'A roadside scene near Charleston.'

47. corner of Bay and Amherst Streets

corner of Bay and Amherst Streets
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.84, Corner [of] Bay and Amherst St.'

48. Annual Reports of the Chief of the Fire Department of the City of Charleston

Annual Reports of the Chief of the Fire Department of the City of Charleston
Date:
1867, 1868, 1870, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1871, 1869, 1866, and 1872
Description:
A set of annual reports of the the Fire Department from 1859-1872. Reports missing for years 1862-1865. The annual reports open with a statement from the Fire Chief and include multiple lists of department expenses, financial cost of fires, the cause of the fires, and locations of city property pertaining to the fire department.

50. German Artillery Hall

German Artillery Hall
Date:
1886
Description:
Caption: 'Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity. Taken after the 31st of August, 1886. No.104, German Artillery Hall.'