Three photographs on page. Top left: Allee on the grounds of plantation likely in Georgetown. Top right: Barn, carriages, and a mule on a Georgetown plantation. Bottom: Woman holding an infant in front of a dwelling on a Georgetown Plantation.
Two photographs on page. Top: View of Screven Street in Georgetown, South Carolina. The Georgetown County Courthouse is at left. Bottom: Interior room of unidentified house, featuring china hutch and other furnishings.
Meeting minutes volume kept by the town of Moultrieville's city council (later the Town of Sullivan Island City Council). This volume covers topics such as the U.S. Government's land acquisition on Sullivan's Island, the institution of building codes and public health laws, the installation of electric lights on Sullivan's Island, and the state legislature's revocation of Moultrieville's town charter.
A scrapbook by Erastus W. Everson (1837-1897) documenting his time spent serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861- 1865); the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands during the American Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); as a librarian at the University of South Carolina and a newspaper editor.
1890-1899, 1900-1909, 1880-1889, 1870-1879, 1860-1869, and 1910-1919
Description:
Meeting minutes volume kept by the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, 1869-1915. The volume contains sporadic entries regarding all Society business, data on constitutions, finances, membership, aid given by the Society. The volume also includes resolutions on the deaths of members including that of Miss Sally Lopez, founder of the Society.
Diary kept by Rabbi Jacob S. Raisin entitled, "My Life's Tragi-Comedy." The diary is comprised of personal entries and correspondence bound together in order to create a chronological log of events during Jacob S. Raisin's life and Rabbinical career between the years of 1892-1905.
Meeting minutes volume kept by the Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Board of Trustees, 1897-1909. The entries in this volume concern all discussions regarding synagogue business, finances, memberships, the "Ottolengui Fund," the management of several real estate assets, the installation of electric lights in the synagogue, and the decision to discuss a reverend's conduct with him.
Three photographs on page. Top left and bottom: View from the Cooper River of the piers and boats on the Charleston waterfront behind the U.S. Customhouse. The Customhouse can be seen in the background as well as Market Street buildings. Top right: Unidentified beach scene, possibly Isle of Palms.
Three photographs on page. Top: Slave cabins along an allée on the grounds of a plantation likely in Georgetown. Bottom left: View of the Georgetown Lighthouse and dwelling. Bottom right: Woman and two men standing on the boardwalk in front of the dwelling adjacent to the Georgetown Lighthouse.
Three photographs on page. Top left: View of bluff on a river, likely the Pee Dee River. Top right: Bluff and dwelling on Pee Dee River. Bottom: Boardwalk on unidentified beach.
Three photographs on page. Top: View across a river. Bottom left: View of All Saints Episcopal Church; gravestone in foreground. Bottom right: View of a rice canal; portion of a rice trunk in foreground.
Three photographs on page. Top left: Four women and a man on a sand dune at an unidentified beach. Top right: Three men stand on the steamboat Emma A. Twiggs on the Pee Dee River. Bottom: View across the Pee Dee River.