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Robert Adger Bowen Papers

Collection

Identifier: Mss-0119

Scope and Content Note The papers contain many of Bowen's early writings, both published and unpublished; scrapbooks of his letters to the editor and columns from his retirement years; reports and information from his position with the Bureau of Translations and Radical Publications and the FBI; hundreds of his poems organized by topic, clippings related to his interests in royalty, literary figures and politics.Bowen's Poetry/Writings: Bowen wrote extensively from 1885 until his death at age 103 in...

Dates: 1865 - 1981

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, 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

Will Gravely Collection - Willie Earle Investigation

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-0299

Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, memoranda, clippings, teletypes/telegrams, excerpts from lab reports, an oral history interview with transcripts, and an investigative report concerning the February 17, 1947 lynching of Willie Earle. The files document the Federal Bureau of Investigation's involvement in the case and documentation of its coverage in the media. Professor Will Gravely obtained the bulk of this material under the Freedom of Information Act in 2001....

Dates: 1947 - 2001

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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Robert Adger Bowen Papers

Strom Thurmond Collection, Gubernatorial Series

Strom Thurmond Collection, Jean Crouch Thurmond Series

Strom Thurmond Collection Photographs

Will Gravely Collection - Willie Earle Investigation

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