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Strom Thurmond Collection, Interim Series

Series — Box: 1-5

Identifier: Mss-0100-10

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, invitations, clippings and other material during the period between Thurmond's resignation from the Senate in April 1956 and his re-election to the Senate in November 1956. Includes veterans inquiries and referrels to interim Senator Thomas Wofford's office. Subjects covered include states' rights and the "bootlegging" of automobiles into Spartanburg County.

Dates: 1955-1956.

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Strom Thurmond Collection, Jean Crouch Thurmond Series

Series — Box: 1-19

Identifier: Mss-0100-06

Scope and Content Note The Jean Crouch Thurmond series primarily covers the period 1947-1960, from her courtship with Governor Thurmond to her death. The records are divided into five subseries: Wedding Correspondence, General Correspondence, General Subject File, Illness/Sympathy, and three oversize volumes of Scrapbooks. The Wedding Correspondence (Subseries A, 1947; .75 cu. ft.) is arranged alphabetically. This subseries contains correspondence concerning the pending Thurmond-Crouch marriage and open house...

Dates: 1879-1995 1915-1992; 1915 - 1992

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Strom Thurmond Collection Photographs

Series

Identifier: Mss-0100-27

Abstract This series consists primarily of black-and-white photographs documenting the political life of United States Senator Strom Thurmond. The Photographs Series document Strom Thurmond's early years, his family and careers. These are photographs of Strom Thurmond as a baby, his parents, his siblings, as well as the Edgefield home where he was raised. There are also photographs documenting his rise in public life, showing Thurmond as a college student, teacher and coach, state senator, circuit...

Dates: 1900-1995

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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