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Henry Laurens Pinckney warrant

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-015
Collection Overview

This collection contains a single warrant issued by Henry L. Pinckney, Collector of the general tax for the parishes of St. Philip's and St. Michael's, to James S. Shingler, Sheriff of Charleston District, authorizing the arrest of the free black, Maria Louisa Silvanneau, of Charleston, for failure to pay the capitation tax of $2.77. Includes handwritten note of disposition.

Dates: 1849

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's plantations journal

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-054
Collection Overview Journal entries on pages interleaved in Hoff's Agricultural Almanac (1818). Includes personal and plantation entries by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1818 April 6-May 16, with a few scattered entries in late 1818 and early 1819). The journal records daily activities on Pinckney's plantation. Pinckney not only planted cotton, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, corn, and oats, but relied heavily on fish for food. Many daily entries record the number of drumfish caught and the share of the catch...
Dates: 1818-1819

Pinehurst Tea Plantation records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0203
Abstract

Financial records, letters and correspondence, plats, and printed materials relating to the Pinehurst Tea Plantation founded in Summerville, South Carolina, by Charles U. Shepard for his experiments in tea cultivation, production, and marketing. Materials relate primarily to the sale, purchase, and transfer of the property and properties that would become the Pinehurst Tea Plantation.

Dates: 1855-1993

Pinkussohn family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-059
Collection Overview The collection includes 14 handwritten pages of a letter. The letter, written in pencil on May 31, 1907, was addressed to Mrs. R. Dewald from Mrs. Eliza B. Weinges of St. Matthews. The letter is a recollection of the events surrounding Rebecca Pinkussohn's birth. Also included is a small book of School Certificates from the Memminger and Bennett Schools of Charleston, SC for regular and punctual attendance, perfect lessons, and correct deportment. Of the 155 certificates, 52 were awarded to...
Dates: 1876-1907

Pintus family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-041
Abstract

The collection consists of a photocopied typescript of The Pintus Translations, edited and translated by Michael Lombardi. The typescript is based on transcriptions of postwar letters to Florence Goldsmith written by her friend Lise Pintus, a survivor of the Holocaust from Berlin, Germany, and other materials from the Pintus family.

Dates: 1979

Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1138
Abstract Esther Kaplan Pivnick (1913-2001), a former patternmaker from New York, retired on Johns Island, South Carolina in the mid-1970s. Along with historian Elizabeth "Betty" Stringfellow, she embarked on an ambitious project to write an inclusive history of Johns Island, (the largest Sea Island in South Carolina, approximately thirty miles south of Charleston), and incorporating the adjoining islands of Edisto, Wadmalaw, Kiawah and Seabrook. Their goal was to write a "peoples'...
Dates: 1663-2000, undated; Majority of material found within 1863-1999

Poem, 1861 (photocopy)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-156
Collection Overview

This collection consists of a photocopy of a poem entitled "The old house on Thadd St." The title refers to the John Rutledge House, a historical house museum in Charleston, S.C. The author is not mentioned on the photocopy but is identified as Miss Nelson by Alston Deas, compiler of the collection.

Dates: undated

Pogson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-135
Collection Overview This collection consists of items related to the Pogson family from the time of their arrival in the United States until the Civil War. It includes clippings, correspondence, calling cards, genealogies, personal effects, family documents, and other miscellaneous biographical materials. The majority of the documents refer to Milward Pogson, Sarah Pogson Smith, Frances Pogson Smith, and Harry Freeman Young Pogson. Alston Deas, the compiler of this collection, has attached explanatory notes and...
Dates: 1783-1949

Polan family artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-052
Collection Overview

Collection contains five artifacts: Gertrude Polan's aluminum bread crumb tray and scraper used at the family home in Mullins, South Carolina; Hyman Polan's koshering knife and whetstone (used ca. 1940s-1960s); cotton handkerchief to wrap knife and whetstone.

Dates: approximately 1940-1960

Poliakoff family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1180
Abstract

Assorted papers of the Poliakoff family of Abbeville, South Carolina. Materials include World War II memorabilia, including two diaries kept by Abraham Ellis Poliakoff detailing his time aboard the USAHS Jarrett M. Huddleston and materials relating to the D. Poliakoff department store including financial ledgers, invoices, receipts, and store signage.

Dates: 1896-1995

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correspondence 253
clippings (information artifacts) 190
photographs 136
black-and-white photographs 111
scrapbooks 80
photocopies 66
color photographs 60
Charleston (S.C.) 54
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 51
financial records 51
certificates 47
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 45
letters (correspondence) 42
minutes (administrative records) 41
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 39
family papers 39
photograph albums 37
black-and-white negatives 35
genealogies (histories) 35
printed ephemera 35
pamphlets 34
programs (documents) 34
diaries 33
videocassettes 30
DVDs 29
digital images 28
South Carolina -- History 25
artifacts (object genre) 25
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston 24
typescripts 24
black-and-white slides 23
compact discs 23
newsletters 23
publications (documents) 23
memoirs 22
postcards 22
Charleston (S.C.) -- History 21
audiocassettes 21
South Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 20
articles 20
manuscripts for publication 19
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 18
administrative records 18
ledgers (account books) 18
manuscripts (documents) 18
Photographs 17
genealogical tables 17
notes (documents) 17
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 16
Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 16
legal documents 16
drawings (visual works) 15
obituaries 15
receipts (financial records) 15
transcripts 15
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Correspondence 14
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 13
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 13
Ephemera 13
awards 13
business records 13
maps (documents) 13
poems 13
speeches (documents) 13
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 12
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 12
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 12
Oral histories 12
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 12
color slides 12
sketches 12
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 11
essays 11
lists (document genres) 11
poetry 11
research notes 11
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
Jewish families -- South Carolina 10
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Charleston 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
cabinet photographs 10
diplomas 10
drafts (documents) 10
magazines (periodicals) 10
negatives (photographs) 10
personal correspondence 10
school yearbooks 10
slides (photographs) 10
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
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 9
Holocaust survivors 9
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 9
books 9
daguerreotypes (photographs) 9
journals (accounts) 9
membership lists 9
Names
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