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Charlie Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0218
Abstract
This collection consists of the papers of Charlie Smith, white activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights, political candidate, and real estate broker. The papers include biographical material about Smith. There are also subject files and audiovisual materials from Smith’s political campaigns for Village Council in Miami Shores, Florida, and for South Carolina House District 119 in Charleston, South Carolina. There are professional papers relating to Smith’s...
Dates:
1936-2020
Found in:
Special Collections
Maxine Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1186
Scope
All of the materials within this collection were donated by Dr. Maxine Smith between 2010 and 2025. The items document Dr. Smith's life and career along with endevors of her parents, Henry and Emily Smith.
Dates:
1990-2010
Robert Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0046
Collection Overview
The first journal dates 1788-1794. The first part of this journal, February 1788- February 1792, is a financial account of each student's charges for attending Reverend Smith's private academy. The second part of this journal, January 1792-October 1794, is a chronological financial accounting of admission to Charleston College Academy which opened in October 1790. The second journal dates July 1788-October 1801 and is an account book of pew rents; sacrament funds; the rector's salary for St....
Dates:
1784-1802
Found in:
Special Collections
Robert Lee Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1068
Abstract
The Robert Lee Smith collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports and various documents generated and gathered by Margaretta Pringle Childs (Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel Childs). Newspaper clippings (1977-1984), mostly from the Charleston Chronicle, discuss the case and its possible link to the unsolved 1975 murder of George A. Payton, an African American attorney who was representing Smith. Childs' correspondence (1977-1979, and undated) is on...
Dates:
1976-1984, and undated
James Adger Smyth papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-069
Collection Overview
The collection consists of the handwritten text of two speeches delivered by Smyth at the College of Charleston. The first speech is titled "Public Opinion," and was given at the college on March 6th, 1857. In it, Smyth describes the power of public opinion to shape the actions of governments. The second speech is Smyth's valedictorian address. The works were donated to the College of Charleston by William H. Cross, a graduate of the college in 1925. The papers also include a letter from...
Dates:
1857-1858
Found in:
Special Collections
William Smyth audio collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1202
Abstract
The William Smyth audio collection, 1985-1994, contains ten oral histories, conducted by William Smyth, and eight music recordings. The oral history participants discuss life in the Charleston area during the 1950s with specific focus given to the Civil Rights Movement and segregation. The music recordings include Gullah Geechee artists from the Lowcountry such as Ron and Natalie Diase (Beaufort), the Brotherhood Gospel Singers (Mt. Pleasant), unidentified "Sea Island Singers," and a...
Dates:
1985-1994
Sokol and Goldwasser families papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1176
Abstract
Papers of the Sokol and Goldwasser families of South Carolina.
Dates:
approximately 1920s-1970s
Found in:
Special Collections
Benjamin and Mary Solomon papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-018
Collection Overview
Collection includes Benjamin and Mary Solomon's official United States of America Certificates of Naturalization (1942, 1945) with photo identifications. On reverse of Benjamin Solomon's certificate is typed notation (signed by N.P. deSaussure, Deputy Clerk of U.S. District Court) that Solomon's name was changed from Berall Lozer Charchewsky, as part of the naturalization. Also included is an abstract of Benjamin and Mary Solomon's marriage license from the Register of Marriages...
Dates:
1917-1957
Found in:
Special Collections
Solomon family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1004
Collection Overview
Correspondence, photographs, photocopies, documents, scrapbooks, daybooks, clippings, ephemera. The papers contain material related to three generations of the Solomon family, including family correspondence from the 1920s to the 1950s (letters, greeting cards, and telegrams), newspaper clippings, engagement and bar mitzvah announcements, invitations, and two daybooks. Notable in the collection is a group of photographs (predominantly from the 1920s but continuing into the 1950s) of Solomon...
Dates:
1910-1950
Found in:
Special Collections
Solomon-Prystowsky family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1013
Abstract
Papers of the Solomon and Prystowsky families of Charleston, South Carolina, including records related to the family company, Sam Solomon Company.
Dates:
approximately 1880s-1995
Found in:
Special Collections