Clemson University
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Fort Hill Mansion registers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0003
Scope and Content
Registers listing visitors to the home of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), located on the Clemson University campus. From 1893-1932 no register was kept. Mrs. A.G. Holmes reintroduced the register beginning March 31, 1932.
Dates:
1888-1893, 1932-1937
Holmes Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0001
Introduction
This collection consists mainly of material created and assembled by Professors Alester Garden Holmes and George Raymond Sherrill while they were writing Thomas Green Clemson: His Life and Work. It includes research notes, copies of correspondence related to Clemson and manuscript versions of the book. Holmes' correspondence documents various aspects of his career as a teacher at Clemson College and a historian in South Carolina. There is also material...
Dates:
1789-1977
Mary Stevenson Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0353
Abstract
The Mary Stevenson Collection documents the people and places of the South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens—especially the Clemson-Pendleton area—through the research of Mary Stevenson, a Clemson University librarian and chair of the Research and Publication Committee of the Foundation for Historic Restoration in the Pendleton Area. The collection also documents the families who lived in or were associated with the two historic houses the Foundation operates, Ashtabula and...
Dates:
1784 - 1995; Majority of material found within , 1960-1988
Thomas Green Clemson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0002
Scope and Content Note
Thomas Green Clemson's papers reflect his intellectual interests in mining, geology, scientific agriculture and the promotion of education; his cultured back-ground as an artist, art collector, linguist and diplomat; and his personal life as a plantation owner, businessman, husband and father. A pocket journal, 1832-1837, is the first piece of Clemson's writing in this collection. Mr. Charles R. Clemson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, donated this brief journal and its typed transcription to...
Dates:
1786 - 2000; 1844 - 1888
- Subject
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina. 2
- Calhoun Gold Mine (Ga.) 1
- Chronologies (lists) 1
- Church buildings -- South Carolina -- Pendleton 1
- Correspondence. 1
- Dwellings -- South Carolina. 1
- Freedmen 1
- Genealogies (histories) 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Anderson County. 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Clemson. 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Oconee County 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Pendleton District 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Pendleton. 1
- Historic buildings -- South Carolina -- Pickens County. 1
- Hopewell Plantation (S.C.) 1
- Maps (documents) 1
- Photographs. 1
- Plats (maps) 1
- Research notes 1
- Rivoli Plantation (S.C.) 1
- Sketches 1
- South Carolina. -- Architecture 1
- Spirituals (Songs) -- South Carolina. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
- Visitors' books 1
- Women -- Social conditions 1
- Woodburn (S.C. : Plantation) 1 ∧ less
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