SPC. Special Collections

Abstract Correspondence, programs, publications, newspaper clippings, speeches, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, awards, certificates, financial material, and personal files of L. Mendel Rivers (1905-1970), Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina's 1st Congressional District from 1941 to 1970. Materials primarily relate to Rivers' service in Congress with topics including the Cold War, Vietnam War, the Charleston Naval Shipyard, the United States Armed Forces, military pay...

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Collection consists of 37 black and white mounted photographs collected by artist Eola Willis, taken mostly in Havana, Cuba around the time of the Spanish-American War (1898) and after.

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Assorted records documenting the operations and activities of the League of Women Voters of the Charleston Area (LWVCA), a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government at the local, state, and national levels.

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Assorted personal papers of Emmett P. Bonner, including correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, certificates, medals, and other ephemera relating to his career in the United States Navy.

Collection Overview This collection consists of 5 documents related to the Southern Committee to Free All Political Prisoners. The first document is dated December 1973 and contains a description of cases and events used to build support for the Southern Committee to Free All Political Prisoners; the second sheet contains a petition to free Thomas Wansley. The second document, entitled "People's petition demanding justice for the Attica indictees," contains a list of grievances against Attica Prison; on the...

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This collection consists of items related to Carolina Howard Gilman and her family. It includes miscellaneous genealogical, biographical, and primary sources.

Collection Overview The collection consists of handmade paper samples from the 7 papermakers participating in the "Papermaking Invitational" exhibition. This exhibition was on view at the Gibbes Art Gallery from January 17 to March 4, 1984 and later appeared at the Robert Scott Small Library, College of Charleston in honor of Juliette Staats. The seven artists include Marchelle Pachnowski, Lilian Bell, Olive Meador Smith, Coco Gordon, Nancy Albertson, Sheril Cunning, and Ande Lau Chen. The collection also...

Collection Overview The papers consist of school notes, lectures, lab drawings, essays, exams and papers in education, literature, zoology, psychology, history, botany, fine arts and health. Other items include lectures on child welfare, guidance, and curriculum. Five duplicate cassette tapes of 7.5 hours of interviews with Mabel L. Pollitzer are from the Winthrop College Archives (Rock Hill, S.C.). These interviews are recollections of her work as a teacher, her participation on library and museum boards and...

Collection Overview The photographs and illustrations were taken for and most were included in: Lightsey, Harry M. Jr. Gems in a crown: the people and places of the College of Charleston, University of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston, S.C. : College of Charleston Foundation, 1993. The historic photographs that were borrowed from Special Collections for use in the book were refiled in their former locations. Tommy Thompson, a professional photographer in Atlanta, Georgia, made 42 color transparencies and...

Collection Overview Front cover inscribed "F.R. Fisher. Notes." Frank R. Fisher's "notes" contain observations, drawings, and photographs relating to scientific and technological studies, particularly astronomical observations made while Fisher was a resident in Charleston, S.C. during the 1880s.; Fisher records important discoveries and observations made by various scientists earlier in the century. Fisher's astronomical observations begin in Charleston in 1882 with the sighting of a comet. He also records his...