Scope and Content Note This collection consists of more than 11,000 positive and negative images produced by the Cooperative Extension Service and South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station from the 1920s until the 1970s. A few images made before 1930 were not produced by the Service but were acquired and maintained with the collection. Many of the images appeared in publications issued by the Extension Service.The bulk of images documents activities relating to agriculture; the remainder relates...

Abstract

Writer and professional consultant Joseph C. Ellers conducted a series of research interviews in the mid 1980s for his book "Getting To Know Clemson University Is Quite An Education: Determination Makes Dreams Come True."

The interviews focus on key events that shaped the progress and development of Clemson University during the presidency of Robert C. Edwards (1958-1979).

Scope and Contents This series contains a selection of financial records produced by the Office of the Treasurer of Clemson College for the years 1890-1955. These records include ledgers, journals, check stubs, check registers, invoices, and audits. The bulk consists of financial ledgers kept by Treasurers P.H.E. Sloan, Samuel Evans, and A.J. Brown.The ledgers contain three basic accounts, each independent of the other: a college account, the cadet fund, and the South Carolina Experiment Station...

Scope and Contents This series contains reports of deans and directors to the President of the University. It covers a time span from 1929 to 1956, with most of the reports occurring in the 1940s and 1950s. The majority of the reports, Annual Reports from the various departments at the college, follow this format: a "General Report" that summarizes the achievements and failures of a particular department; "Resignations and Appointments," which lists the names and positions of both faculty and staff members who...

Scope and Contents This series contains the presidential records of Samuel Broadus Earle, Acting President of Clemson College, 1924-1925. (For the six months in 1919 that Earle served as President in the absence of Walter M. Riggs, see the Riggs Presidential Records.) The series includes correspondence, departmental report and budgets, and annual report to the South Carolina General Assembly, partial lists of cadets, employment agreements, letters from parents and other individuals concerning the student...