A Notebook Containing Recollections of Rose Pringle Ravenel

Title:

A Notebook Containing Recollections of Rose Pringle Ravenel

Date:

1920

Creator (Personal):

Ravenel, Rose P.

Description:

A notebook (ca. 1920) containing reminiscences by Rose P. Ravenel, who writes about her girlhood, her relationship with her "mammy" and her French nurse. She describes life at Farmfield Plantation during the Civil War, knitting socks for Confederate soldiers, making paper and envelopes, salt production, molasses candy, flower dolls, and the family's hardships after the Civil War.

Collection Title:

Rose P. Ravenel Family Papers, 1857-ca. 1920.

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Ravenel family

Topical Subject:

Slavery, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Candlemaking, Christianity, Dolls--United States, Nannies, Salt, Women--Southern States, Enslaved persons, French language--Readers, Candy, Young women, Plantation life--Southern States--History, Tea making paraphernalia, Hair ornaments, Hairdressing, and Soap trade--United States

Geographic Subject:

Charleston (S.C.) and United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

43/0470

Date Digital:

2011-07

Digitization Specifications:

600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.

Format:

image/jpeg

Copyright Status Statement:

Public Domain.

Access Information:

For more information contact The South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC 29401.

Admin ID:

289081