Charles Daniel started Daniel Construction Company in 1935. He acted as president and chairman of the board and oversaw the rapid growth of the company as it advanced to become one of the larges construction companies in the world. The Charles Daniel Papers document his activities as a business executive, a community leader, and a crusader for southern industry.
The material in the Strom Thurmond Collection Gubernatorial Series includes correspondence (both official and personal), campaign material, speeches and other items documenting Strom Thurmond's term as Governor of South Carolina from 1946-1951. Some of this material was originally part of the holdings of the South Caroliniana Library of The University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.