A color photograph of J.F. Maybank waving his hat in a rice field. A caption on the back of the photograph reads, 'We start out [?] 12th [?] on this field 1951.'
A black and white photograph of men standing in a field of grain. A caption written on the back of the photograph claims that the field averaged 70 bushels.
A black and white photograph of a man with Jean, a champion Jersey cow. Also noted on the back of the photograph are the names of W.E. Chapman [?] and R.A. Burroughs Jr. Ford Company Model A automobiles, other cars, a tractor, trailers and Berkeley County, SC school buses are pictured in the background.
A black and white photograph of two men with champion milch [? Illegible] cow, Nancy. Noted on the back of the photograph is the name W.A. Parrich [? Illegible} who is attempting to steady Nancy. Ford Company Model A automobiles, other cars, a tractor, trailers and Berkeley County, SC school buses are pictured in the background.
A black and white photograph of a man in a large pea crop field examining crops while holding a sign that reads, 'No Additional Potash.' Overhead utility lines can be seen along the field. There is handwriting on the photo that reads, 'W.C. Gerity [? illegible] Farm [? illegible], Yonzes [? illegible] Island, 1934.'
“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.
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.
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.
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 print of a black and white photograph of a large group taken at Drainland . Underneath the photograph is a caption, 'Drainland 1915.'
Pattie Ann Bird's application for membership for The North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America. On the last page, makes notation that her ancestor Col. William Eaton "brought eleven white and twenty-three black persons into the colony of N.C."
Bound papers written by Anne Simons Deas in 1900 describing the harvesting and planting of rice by freed men and woman. The pages also discuss the atmosphere of the rice fields, describing how the workers sing hymns and converse with one another.
