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Rudolf Herz papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-050
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, interviews on videocassette and DVD, photographs, and other papers of Rudolf "Rudy" Herz, a native of Stommeln, Germany, who survived incarceration in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps during World War II. After immigrating to the United States in 1946, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Dates: 1944-2011
Found in: Special Collections

Solomon Heydenfeldt papers and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1155
Abstract Assorted family photographs and personal and legal papers relating to Solomon Heydenfeldt, first elected justice and first Jewish justice to the Supreme Court of California. Papers consist primarily of approximately 350 black and white photographs, mostly from the turn of the century of family and friends related to the Heydenfeldts. Papers also include clippings related to the Heydenfeldt family, newspapers containing birth announcements, genealogical information, a few letters of Eva...
Dates: 1856-1990s; Majority of material found within 1890s-1920s
Found in: Special Collections

Heyward and Ferguson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0092
Collection Overview The papers consist of family and business correspondence between members of the Heyward family. Nathaniel Heyward (1766-1851) of South Carolina and his wife Henrietta Manigault Heyward (1769-1827) correspond with their sons Nathaniel Heyward (1790-1819) and William Manigault Heyward (1788-1820); their grandsons Nathaniel Barnwell Heyward (1816-1891), James Barnwell Heyward (1817-1886) and William Henry Heyward (1817-1889); and other relations regarding plantation provisions and rice planting...
Dates: 1806-1923
Found in: Special Collections

Hirsch family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1080
Abstract

Legal documents, financial papers, correspondence, photographs, and other assorted papers of the Hirsch family of Charleston, South Carolina, and New York, New York. Materials relate to Jacob Hirsch and his wife, Esther Hirsch; his sons, Max Joseph Hirsch, an actor in New York's Yiddish theaters, Louis Hirsch, and Isaac "Bingo" Hirsch; his daughter Julia Hirsch; Max's wife Sylvia Charen Hirsch, and his daughter Betty Hirsch Lancer.

Dates: 1916-1990
Found in: Special Collections

Willard N. Hirsch papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1074
Abstract

This collection contains Willard Hirsch's papers, clippings, and publications related to his career as a sculptor, including his correspondence, photographs, sketches of his artwork, a scrapbook related to his work, and exhibition catalogs. It also includes information on his work as an art instructor, his involvement with the arts and Jewish communities in Charleston, South Carolina, and on members of his family, including his wife, Mordenai Raisin Hirsch, and uncle, Herman Rosenbluth.

Dates: 1911-2010
Found in: Special Collections

Hirschman family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-045
Collection Overview

Includes Hirschman family biographical notes, news clippings (1918-1987) and images (1912-1975). Original souvenir handkerchief from the 1929 South Carolina Federation of Temple Sisterhoods annual meeting held in Greenville, SC. Also includes several images of the Rivkin family, ca. 1910 and 1920.

Dates: 1910-1987
Found in: Special Collections

Hoffman Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1194
Abstract This collection centers on Norma Hoffman Davis and her parents Irvine and Ellen Hoffman, highlighting their personal histories and deep ties to Charleston, South Carolina, and the Avery Normal Institute. At its core is Dr. Joseph Irvine Hoffman Jr., a Charleston native whose life of service—as a physician, educator, and civic leader—reflects the values instilled through Avery and the African American institutions that shaped him. His wife, Ellen Wiley Hoffman, an accomplished pianist and...
Dates: 1825 - 2025
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Clarence Holland collection of Holocaust atrocity photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-024
Abstract

The collection consists of twenty-four Holocaust atrocity photographs collected by U.S. soldier Clarence Holland.

Dates: 1945
Found in: Special Collections

Holloway family scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1065
Abstract James Harrison Holloway, compiler of the family scrapbook, collected materials in the early twentieth century to preserve a record of his family’s legacy as free prominent African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, from their arrival in the late eighteenth century. In the wake of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Holloway, whose vocations ranged between preacher, postmaster, and harness maker, sought to assert his family's legacy against the economic, social, and political...
Dates: 1776-1977, undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Mrs. Louise F. Holmes scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1182
Abstract

The Mrs. Louise F. Holmes scrapbook collection contains one scrapbook that documents Mrs. Holmes's faith, love for poetry, and a broad range of other interests which reflect the life of African Americans in the Lowcountry and South Carolina. This collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia which follow the lives of the Holmes family in Charleston, S.C. and Florence, S.C.

Dates: 1873-1940
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

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South Carolina -- History 25
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Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 12
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 12
color slides 12
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 11
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school yearbooks 10
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African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American churches 9
African American families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 9
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Avery Normal Institute 48
College of Charleston 46
Deas, Alston, 1893-1985 29
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, S.C.) 17
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 16
College of Charleston. Library 16
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 16
Avery Research Center 15
United States. Army 13
United States. Works Progress Administration 10
Moses family 9
Cohen family 8
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 8
Levy family 8
Alston family 7
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 7
DeCosta family 7
Jewish Community Center (Charleston, S.C.) 7
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 6
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 6
Charleston Naval Shipyard 6
Dachau (Concentration camp) 6
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 6
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) 6
Hirsch, Mordenai Raisin 6
Moïse family 6
Synagogue Emanu-El (Charleston, S.C.) 6
Voorhees College 6
Waring, Julius Waties, 1880-1968 6
Weinberg family 6
African Methodist Episcopal Church 5
Aleph Zadik Aleph. Charleston Chapter 5
Allen University 5
Alliance for Full Acceptance 5
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 5
Bachman, John, 1790-1874 5
Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Blamyer family 5
Blamyre family 5
Breibart, Solomon 5
Brown family 5
Brown, Millicent E. 5
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina 5
Deas family 5
Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960 5
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Harby family 5
Links, Inc. Charleston Chapter 5
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 5
Medical University of South Carolina 5
Moïse, Penina 5
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 5
Raisin, Rachel M. 5
Rubens family 5
Solomon family 5
South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 5
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 5
St. Philip's Church (Charleston, S.C.) 5
United States. Congress. House 5
Waring, Elizabeth 5
Whipper, Lucille, 1928-2021 5
American Missionary Association 4
Benedict College 4
Brith Sholom (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Brith Sholom Beth Israel (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Burke High School (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Charleston County School District 4
Clyburn, James 4
Congregation Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) 4
Cornwell, Ruby Pendergrass, 1902-2003 4
Dock Street Theatre (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 4
Finley family 4
Footlight Players (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Harris, Lancelot Minor, 1868-1941 4
Holmes, F. S. (Francis Simmons), 1815-1882 4
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Howard University 4
Hunt, Eugene C. 4
Jenkins, Esau, 1910-1972 4
Karesh, Rosalyn Furchgott 4
Lazar family 4
Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899 4
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity 4
Palmetto Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association 4
Phillis Wheatley Literary and Social Club (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Pogson family 4
Potts family 4
Potts, John F., Sr., 1908-1998 4
Robinson, Bernice, 1914-1994 4
Rosenberg, Anita Moïse Rosefield 4
Rosengarten, Dale, 1948- 4
Shulman, Nat, 1914-2000 4
Simons, Albert, 1890-1980 4
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 4
St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church (Charleston, S.C.) 4
Stern, Theodore Sanders 4
Tobias, Thomas J. 4
United States. Navy 4
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