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Theoph. W. Mozart compositeur, et maitre de musique, agé de 7 ans, 1781
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-172
Collection Overview
Framed etched portrait of Mozart at age 7, engraved by T. Cook (1744-1818) after a work by Carmontelle-Delafosse depicting Leopold Mozart with Wolfgang and Maria Anna (Paris, 1763). It is captioned in French and includes an epigraph from Homer's Hymn on Mercury in Greek below. This engraving was reproduced in Daines Barrington's Miscellanies (London, 1781) accompanying an essay entitled, "Account of a very remarkable young musician." Daines Barrington (1727-1800) was an English lawyer,...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Allen Tibbs collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1153
Abstract
This small collection donated by Mr. Allen Tibbs (1994) contains black and white photographs of the Charleston Little League team with their coaches later known as the Cannon Street All-Stars. The collection holds images of the Cannon Street Basketball team (circa 1950s). Additionally, this collection has ephemera in the form of newspaper articles and scattered issues of Life Magazine, mostly likely collected for it's topical content on Black history and...
Dates:
1953-1969
"To Be Sung at Elections"
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-128
Collection Overview
This collection consists of a sheet containing the lyrics to the song "To be sung at elections."
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas J. Tobias papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1029
Collection Overview
Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings.
Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...
Dates:
approximately 1790-1970
Found in:
Special Collections
Tornadoes in Charleston
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-083
Collection Overview
This collection consists of two typed reports, a map and newspaper clippings about the two tornadoes which hit Charleston, S.C. on the morning of September 29, 1938. The first report by John E. Lockwood (meteorologist U.S. Weather Bureau) gives a description of the tornadoes paths, building damage, numbers killed by tornadoes and the value of property damage. The second report follows up with eyewitness accounts from Mr. W.A. Brunson, Mr. R.C. Alderedge (Weather Bureau Office), Mr. J.F. Fox,...
Dates:
1938
Found in:
Special Collections
John Torrans letters
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-081
Collection Overview
A letter from John Torrans to Alexander Rose recommends that Rose buy the brigantine Industry lying at Eveleigh's Wharf, "that she will do well to go to Suranam" [Surinam]. A postscript headed "Distillery Monday Morning" asks Rose to tell Forbes that "one of the Negros is run away." The second letter (penciled note on cover reads "Charleston, S.C. List of Negros to be Mortgaged") from Torrans to Rose states he has sent a bond and mortgage bought at Well's Shop, but "did not know how many...
Dates:
approximately 1775
Found in:
Special Collections
Vernon Tott papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-039
Abstract
The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, clippings, and a memoir about Ahlem concentration camp written by Vernon Tott, an American soldier with the 84th Infantry Division who participated in the liberation of the camp. The memoir contains photographs, correspondence, maps, recollections of both Tott and Benjamin Sieradzki, a survivor of Ahlem, and other materials relating to the camp and its survivors.
Dates:
1997-1998
Found in:
Special Collections
Joseph A. Towles papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1077
Abstract
African American anthropologist Joseph Allen Towles (1937-1988) met British anthropologist Colin Macmillan Turnbull (1924-1994) in 1959. The two exchanged marriage vows in 1960 and they lived together in an interracial, homosexual relationship until Towles' death in 1988. Towles and Turnbull spent various periods of time in Africa, conducting fieldwork on the Mbuti, Mbo, and Ik peoples. Turnbull authored The Forest People, The...
Dates:
approximately 1920s-2009
Trapier reminiscences, 1865-1870 (typescript copies)
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-082
Collection Overview
Typescript copies of "Notices of Ancestors & Relatives, Paternal & Maternal & of Incidents in my Life" (1865-1870) by Paul Trapier and "An Account of the Experiences of the Family of the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Trapier during and after the War Between the States" by S.D. (Mrs. Paul) Trapier transcribed during a W.P.A. project. Paul Trapier's "Account" contains genealogical information concerning the Trapier, Shubrick, Motte, Horry, and Huger families; observations about relatives; his...
Dates:
1935-1936
Found in:
Special Collections
George Macaulay Trevelyan letters
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-084
Collection Overview
The collection consists of three letters. Two are from Trevelyan to "Carr B." One, dated 1929, is a thank you note. The other, dated 1935, concerns the donation of an unknown object to an unidentified museum. The final letter is to Trevelyan from "R.C. Boraufuet" concerning the death of a mutual friend.
Dates:
1929-1935
Found in:
Special Collections