Charleston (S.C.) -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Chisholm's Rice Mill Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0233
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an inventory volume and four oversize blueprints/plans. The volume contains an 1889 inventory of unattached machinery for the rice mill and other structures, such as the saw mill, planing mill, stores, office, etc. Descriptions of the machinery often include measurements (diameter, bore, shaft length, etc.) and occasional rough sketches of portions of the machinery. There is also a rough inventory from 1910 and lists of equipment removed from the mill by workers...
Dates:
1889 - 1910
Clermont H. Lee Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0232
Scope and Contents
The main portion of the papers consist of copies of the letters of Dr. Ralph Emms Elliott and his wife Margaret Cowper Elliott for the period 1835-1848, typed and edited by Clermont H. Lee in 1977 and a typed copy (created by Lee in 1985) of "History of a Small Mahogany Table", dictated by Phoebe Caroline Seabrook to her son William Elliott Seabrook in August-September 1873.The Elliott letters, written to relatives in Beaufort, SC, and Savannah, GA, describe the daily...
Dates:
1977, 1985
James Adger Letterbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0220
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the original letterbook and a copy of a typescript transcription of the letterbook done in 1936 as part of Works Progress Administration Project 65-33-118, sponsored by the University of South Carolina and supervised by Dr. Anne K. Gregorie and Flora B. Surles; it was copied by Lula May McNinch. The letterbook contains copies of business correspondence concerning orders and the shipping of orders from Adger to various firms mainly in Augusta and Savannah, GA, New...
Dates:
1809, 1817-1819, 1936
J.N. Robson and Son Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0049
Introduction
In Charleston, South Carolina - following the Civil War when the steamship and the railroad replaced wagons for transporting tobacco and indigo - a diversity of storekeepers moved from King Street to East Bay. Although cotton still formed the bulk of export, the commerce of Charleston underwent great change. The J.N. Robson and Son records document these trends in export and domestic trade.
Dates:
1866 - 1933
Series 2: Senatorial Series, 1924-1941, bulk dates 1933-1941, 1933 - 1941
Series
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of blueprints, charts, clippings, correspondence, cross-reference sheets, executive orders and drafts, financial documents, hearings, invitations, laws, legal documents, legislative bills, lists, maps, memos, notes, pamphlets, petitions, photographs, poems, postcards, press releases, regulations, reports, resolutions, speeches, telegrams, and testimonies.The materials in this series span the period 1924-1941, with the bulk of the items dating from the years...
Dates:
1924-1941, bulk dates 1933-1941; 1933 - 1941