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photographs

 Subject

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. The concept does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "

Found in 164 Collections and/or Records:

Gordan B. Stine scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1028
Collection Overview The scrapbooks contain correspondence, speeches, photographs, photocopies, clippings, ephemera, and pamphlets. Collection consists of 27 unbound scrapbooks (have been rehoused in original order) compiled by Stine over the course of his professional career. Majority of collection deals with Stine's political and community accomplishments and highlights local and state political and civic issues, 1960s-1970s. His activities and achievements are documented by newspaper articles (majority from...
Dates: 1937-1989
Found in: Special Collections

Jesse Stuart papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0116
Collection Overview This collection consists of information donated together with 23 books written by Jesse Stuart. It includes a 1967 letter written by Stuart to Dorothy White describing how White's father encouraged Stuart to pursue literature; a photograph of Dorothy White's father, Clark White; an inscribed copy of a pamphlet containing some of Stuart's earliest writings (Lyrics from Lincoln Memorial University, c.1928); a copy of a pamphlet about Stuart and annotated by him (The Man...Jesse Stuart,...
Dates: approximately 1928-1984
Found in: Special Collections

Temple Sinai (Sumter, S.C.) records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1083
Abstract

Records of Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Sumter, South Carolina. Materials document the administrative, financial, social, educational, charitable, and spiritual activities of the congregation and its members. Also included are materials documenting prominent Jewish individuals and families of Sumter, including Penina Moïse and the Moses family.

Dates: 1789-2012; Majority of material found within 1920-1996
Found in: Special Collections

Mary Felicia Theodore papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0086
Collection Overview

The papers consist of two unpublished manuscripts on poetry. The first manuscript "Poetry parts or the grammar of poetry" and the second manuscript "Poetry patterns (explicitly explained)" define the different forms and structures of poetry using poems of well-known and obscure poets. Both manuscripts include a typescript and a carbon copy. Included in the manuscripts are two 1922 photographs of Miss Theodore and ten drawings from her "Do You Know" series.

Dates: 1922-1976
Found in: Special Collections

Various Family and Friends Photographs (1 of 2 folders), circa 1980-2010

 File — Box 173, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains professional images of Lucille Whipper and fellow House of Representative legislators, in color, and black and white. Includes photographs of family members, friends and church members, most unidentified.

Dates: circa 1980-2010
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 8: Photographic Images and Audio Visual Recordings / 8.1: Photographic Images / 8.1.1: Photographs

Various Family and Friends Photographs (2 of 2 folders), circa 1980-2010

 File — Box 173, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Unidentified color images.

Dates: circa 1980-2010
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 8: Photographic Images and Audio Visual Recordings / 8.1: Photographic Images / 8.1.1: Photographs

Various Film Negatives, undated

 File — Box 174, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Unidentified negatives from photographs in Box 172.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 8: Photographic Images and Audio Visual Recordings / 8.1: Photographic Images / 8.1.2: Photographic Slides and Film Negatives

Various South Carolina Baptist Churches , 1975-2008, 2016, and undated

 File — Box 136, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains correspondence and/or programs and event flyers from various Baptist churches in the state. Organized alphabetically.

Dates: 1975-2008, 2016, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 4: Religious Affiliations and Organizations / 4.4: Churches / 4.4.3: South Carolina Baptist Churches

Waterfront design study

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0099
Collection Overview This is an oversized scrapbook of photographs and clippings about the design of waterfronts for cities worldwide. It includes 20 professionally made 8x10 photographs and several dozen pages of clippings. The cities best represented are Paris (4), Havanna (3), and Nice (2). Other cities represented by one photograph each are Cannes, Chicago, Cologne, Hamburg, Leningrad, Moscow, Naples, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, and San Sabastain (Spain). The cities represented by the clippings from...
Dates: 1929
Found in: Special Collections

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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