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Strom Thurmond Collection, Administrative Assistant Series

Series — Box: 1-27

Identifier: Mss-0100-17

Scope and Content Note The records of this series contain material primarily from the 1960's and the 1970's which clearly reflects the functions of the administrative assistant. The material generally pertains to office operations and policies, patronage, political campaigns, and some miscellaneous functions. These materials include letters, memoranda, reports, articles from magazines and newspapers, and some speeches. The series is divided into four subseries: Subject File, Becki Edwards Files, Linda Guell Files,...

Dates: 1946-1989

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Strom Thurmond Collection, Executive Assistant Series

Series — Box: 1-107

Identifier: Mss-0100-16

Scope and Content Note The records of this series contain material generally from the 1970's and the early 1980's, and clearly reflect the functions of the executive assistant. These materials include correspondence, memorandums, reports, applications, bank receipts and statements, magazine articles and newspaper clippings, blueprints and plans, photographs, and some speeches.The Executive Assistant Series contains materials covering projects, grants, political campaigns, and other topics. Much of the...

Dates: 1937 - 1983

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Strom Thurmond Collection, Gubernatorial Series

Series — Box: 1-169

Identifier: Mss-0100-08

Abstract

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.

Dates: 1923 - 1955; 1946 - 1951

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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 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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