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    Manuscript/Mixed Material
    William Gregg papers Catalog Record Only Master microform held by: DLC. Microfilm edition available, no. 20,921 (Master negative in Library of Congress Photoduplication under no. 7,328). Microfilm produced from originals in the William Gregg Foundation. [Place of reproduction unidentified]. William Gregg Foundation; Graniteville, S.C.
    • Contributor: Gregg, William - William Gregg Foundation
    • Date: 1943
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    John Rose letters, Catalog Record Only Letters (ALS) written from Charleston, S.C., to his brother, James Rose, and his uncle, Charles Irvine, in Aberdeen, Scotland. Topics include shipbuilding, plantation life, slaveholding, family news, and smallpox. Persons represented include Capt. Julian Legge.
    • Contributor: Rose, John - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1752
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    Andrew Burnham letter, Catalog Record Only Letter (ALS), written from Edgefield, S.C., to his cousin, William Selby, in East Hartland, Conn., responding to the news of the death of Selby's wife, and commenting on the fatigue and hunger of the march, Indian policy, the Seminole War, Creek Indians, Seminole Indians, the alliance of the Creek and Seminole Indians with southern blacks and the flight of whites to fortified towns, and...
    • Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Burnham, Andrew
    • Date: 1836
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    Spoleto Festival programs, Catalog Record Only The collection consists of individual event programs, season programs, and thematic flyers from the Festival dei Due Mondi, hosted in Spoleto, Italy, and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., held annually in Charleston, South Carolina.
    • Contributor: Festival of Two Worlds - Menotti, Gian Carlo
    • Date: 1958
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    Outreach to internationals the relationship between the religious background of international students at the University of South Carolina and their participation in Christian sponsored ministry events Catalog Record Only Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, 1998. Microfiche. Portland, Or. : Theological Research Exchange Network, 1998. 1 microfiche : negative.
    • Contributor: Westbrook, Charles N.
    • Date: 1998
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    John Rutledge Jr., papers,
    John Rutledge papers Catalog Record Only     Chiefly letters written to Rutledge by his friends, his brothers in Charleston, S.C., political leaders, and government officials relating to his travels in Europe and to his political activities. Includes material relating to business and personal affairs; letters from Rutledge to his father-in-law, Bishop Robert Smith, written during Rutledge's congressional service; business records of Hugh Rose, a South Carolina planter whose daughter married Rutledge's...
    • Contributor: Massias, Abram A. - Rose, Hugh - Rutledge, John
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    Art Rosenbaum Georgia folklore collection,
    Georgia folklore collection, Catalog Record Only     The collection consists of 236 audio cassette tapes duplicated from original field recordings made on 325 reel-to-reel tapes. Art Rosenbaum made most of the recordings in north and coastal Georgia between 1976 and 1983; a few items in the collection are dated 1955 and 1966. He recorded folk music and folk songs from individuals of predominantly English, Scots Irish, Irish, and African American descent...
    • Contributor: McIntosh County Shouters (Musical Group) - Rosenbaum, Art - Finster, Howard - Sea Island Singers - Jones, Bessie - Moving Star Hall Singers - Pattman, Neal - Tanner, Gordon - Bruce, W. Guy - Heaney, Joe - Georgia Folklore Society
    • Date: 1955
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    "You can't possibly know where you're going until you understand where you've been" : the preservation of Gullah musical traditions at the Heritage Days Festival on St. Helena Island, South Carolina
    Preservation of Gullah musical traditions at the Heritage Days Festival on St. Helena Island, South Carolina Catalog Record Only     Title on sound recording: Penn Center Heritage Days Festival, November 7-8, 2003. Submitted to the Dept. of Music. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-134).
    • Contributor: Schnitker, Laura - Tufts University. Department of Music - Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration
    • Date: 2004
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    Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection,
    Alliance for American Quilts interview collection | Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories Catalog Record Only     This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued through 2016. QSOS...
    • Contributor: Quilt Alliance - Pritchard, Gayle A. - Musgrave, Karen S. - International Quilt Festival/Houston - University of Delaware. Center for Material Culture Studies - Herman, Bernard L.
    • Date: 1999
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    John Donald Robb collection.
    J. D. Robb collection of folk music recordings Catalog Record Only     Collection of field recordings of more than 2500 items, principally Hispanic American music and American Indian music from the southwestern United States, with some recordings of fiddle tunes, cowboy songs, and other popular music. Also includes music from Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. Recorded by John Donald Robb and others at many locations in New Mexico and elsewhere, 1942-1979. Hispanic...
    • Contributor: University of New Mexico - Robb, J. D. (John Donald) - Westendorf, Lynette
    • Date: 1942
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    Tales from the Dark Corner : documenting the oral tradition
    Tales from the Dark Corner collection Catalog Record Only     A collection of archival and published materials from the project, "Tales from the Dark Corner: documenting the oral tradition," of recordings and transcripts of interviews with 39 long-term residents of the area of northeastern Greenville County, South Carolina, referred to as the Dark Corner; plus color slides and black-and-white photographic prints of the interviewees collected in 1983 by Bernard Zaidman and the project team,...
    • Contributor: Limestone College - South Carolina Committee for the Humanities - Zaidman, Bernard
    • Date: 1983
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    Reluctantly imposed punishment Catalog Record Only Thirty-one page manuscript written in 1999 by Clyde Johnson Smith of his personal experience of witnessing a lynching of one of his relatives in Greenwood, South Carolina, in 1944.
    • Contributor: Smith, Clyde Johnson
    • Date: 2005
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    Park R. Dougherty collection of Society for the Preservation of Spirituals recordings, Catalog Record Only Collection of disc recordings of spirituals, sermons, and prayers recorded in black churches in Cromwell Alley, Charleston, South Carolina; and on Johns Island, in McClellanville, Collins Creek, and other locations in South Carolina, 1937-1938 by members of the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals. The collection also includes concert performances and home recordings featuring members of the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals recorded...
    • Contributor: Dougherty, Park R. - Society for the Preservation of Spirituals
    • Date: 1936
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    National Book Festival 2001 : American Folklife Center Storytelling Pavilion,
    National Book Festival 2001, Storytelling Pavilion | American Folklife Center concert, 2001-09-08 Catalog Record Only     Collection of planning documents, correspondence, contracts, programs, publicity, and video documentation of events at the Storytelling Pavilion, National Book Festival, held on the East Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on September 8, 2001. The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress planned and produced the performances and events held at the Storytelling Pavilion. Documents include publicity materials from performers, including six color photographic...
    • Contributor: Smith, Samuel Jesse - Deedy, Carmen Agra - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Bruchac, Joseph - Burrows, Derek - Taylor, Jim - Fink, Cathy - Marxer, Marcy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Little, Keith Morrison ... Smith, Samuel Jesse - Deedy, Carmen Agra - National Book Festival (U.S.) - Bruchac, Joseph - Burrows, Derek - Taylor, Jim - Fink, Cathy - Marxer, Marcy - Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress) - Little, Keith Morrison - New Arcadia Puppet Troupe - Daise, Natalie - Daise, Ronald - Pan Masters Steel Orchestra - American Folklife Center - Adams, Sheila Kay
    • Date: 2001
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    Emily Judith Willis collection Veterans History Project (U.S.)
    Emily Judith Willis military service memoir Catalog Record Only     This holding contains a 2016 memoir created by Willis about her experiences serving in the United States Army during the Iraq War. Willis writes about basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, being a laboratory tech at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, the 44th Pathology Team, Iraq, blood banks, and being a supervisor over the only pathology team in the war. She also writes about working...
    • Contributor: Willis, Emily Judith - American Folklife Center - Veterans History Project (U.S.)
    • Date: 2016
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    Cosby family papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Journals kept by Frank C. Cosby as captain's clerk on a voyage (1 volume, 1857-1858) patrolling African waters to intercept slave ships and on a Mediterranean voyage (2 volumes, 1860-1861) during which he recorded the resignation of several officers upon receiving word of South Carolina's secession and the start of the Civil War in the United States. Two notebooks (1917 April 14-May 14) kept...
    • Contributor: Cosby, Spencer - Cosby, Frank C. (Frank Cervill) - Cosby Family - Spencer, William Clayton
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    Diplomats in red and white: treaties between South Carolina and the Cherokee Indians, Catalog Record Only Treaties between South Carolina and the Cherokee Indians.
    • Contributor: South Carolina
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    H.K. Corning diaries,
    H.K. Corning papers Catalog Record Only     Diaries pertaining to Corning's business and personal affairs and to political matters. Subjects include the establishment of the Japanese embassy in the U.S., the secession of South Carolina, Abraham Lincoln's presidency and assassination, and the Civil War. Newspaper clippings interspersed throughout the diaries.
    • Contributor: Corning, H. K.
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    George Edwards correspondence,
    George Edwards papers Catalog Record Only     Letters from Edwards to his daughter, Jessie Edwards, during his Civil War service with the 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment. He writes from South Carolina and Florida where his unit built landing wharves and signal towers. He discusses camp life, living quarters, entertainment, funeral arrangements, shelling raids, and a nearby African American regiment. Includes sketches.
    • Contributor: Edwards, George
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    Samuel W. Durant papers, Catalog Record Only Diaries containing illustrations, typewritten transcriptions of the diaries, biographical sketch, regimental history, quartermaster appointment, field and staff muster-out roll, and photograph pertaining to Durant's Civil War service with the 127th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company E, in Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
    • Contributor: Durant, Samuel W.
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    John Alexander Baldridge Civil War papers,
    John Alexander Baldridge papers Catalog Record Only     Diaries (1864-1865) kept by Baldridge during his Civil War service with the 31st Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company C. Describes his company's participation in Sherman's March to the Sea and skirmishes in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina; his months in hospitals and convalescent camps due to illness; daily camp life; and his journey from North Carolina to Ohio at the end of the war....
    • Contributor: Baldridge, John Alexander
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    A.A. Borthwick diaries,
    A. A. Borthwick papers | Arthur Austin Borthwick papers Catalog Record Only     Diaries (1864 January 1-1865 December 2) kept by Borthwick during his Civil War service with the 157th New York Infantry Regiment in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Subjects include army life, illnesses, casualties, and troop movements. Diaries also contain entries pertaining to civilian life in New York following the war, financial accounts, and lists of correspondence sent and received. Also includes a diary (1857...
    • Contributor: Borthwick, A. A. (Arthur Austin)
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    Benjamin F. Whitten papers,
    Benjamin Franklin Whitten papers Catalog Record Only     Correspondence, family papers, military records, financial and legal records, and other papers relating primarily to Whitten's Civil War service with the 9th Maine Infantry Regiment. Documents his participation in the Battle of Morris Island, S.C., 1863; other actions and encampments along the southeast Atlantic coast in 1862 and 1863; the Battle of Cold Harbor, Va., 1864; and engagements in Bermuda Hundred, Va., where he...
    • Contributor: Whitten, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)
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    John G. Abbott diary and letter typescripts,
    John G. Abbott papers Catalog Record Only     Typescript of diary kept by Abbott during his Civil War service with the 48th New York Infantry Regiment. Abbott describes camp life; regimental movements and skirmishes in Charleston and Hilton Head, S.C., Savannah, Ga., and surrounding areas; and the Union assault of Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C., where Abbott was wounded. Includes a typescript of Abbott's letter to his father written from an army...
    • Contributor: Abbott, John G.
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    Bill of sale for Janey, Catalog Record Only Bill of sale (1748 March 16) of a girl, Janey, Christ Church Parish, South Carolina (Christ Episcopal Church, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina). Sold by Jonathan Badger to Joseph Vanderhorst.
    • Contributor: Janey - Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)