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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0233
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an inventory volume and four oversize blueprints/plans. The volume contains an 1889 inventory of unattached machinery for the rice mill and other structures, such as the saw mill, planing mill, stores, office, etc. Descriptions of the machinery often include measurements (diameter, bore, shaft length, etc.) and occasional rough sketches of portions of the machinery. There is also a rough inventory from 1910 and lists of equipment removed from the mill by workers...
Dates:
1889 - 1910
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0232
Scope and Contents
The main portion of the papers consist of copies of the letters of Dr. Ralph Emms Elliott and his wife Margaret Cowper Elliott for the period 1835-1848, typed and edited by Clermont H. Lee in 1977 and a typed copy (created by Lee in 1985) of "History of a Small Mahogany Table", dictated by Phoebe Caroline Seabrook to her son William Elliott Seabrook in August-September 1873.The Elliott letters, written to relatives in Beaufort, SC, and Savannah, GA, describe the daily...
Dates:
1977, 1985
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0220
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the original letterbook and a copy of a typescript transcription of the letterbook done in 1936 as part of Works Progress Administration Project 65-33-118, sponsored by the University of South Carolina and supervised by Dr. Anne K. Gregorie and Flora B. Surles; it was copied by Lula May McNinch. The letterbook contains copies of business correspondence concerning orders and the shipping of orders from Adger to various firms mainly in Augusta and Savannah, GA, New...
Dates:
1809, 1817-1819, 1936
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0322
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two printed articles. One is a photocopy of a presentation to the South Dakota Genealogical and Historical Societies at a joint convention in Huron, South Dakota in May 1993 by the author, James A. Gabel, a great, great grandson of James Henry Rion. The presentation talked about Rion's deathbed revelation to his physician of his lineage as the Dauphin, or heir, to Louis XVI of France. The other article is a photocopy of extracted portion from the above presentation...
Dates:
1993-1996
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0049
Introduction
In Charleston, South Carolina - following the Civil War when the steamship and the railroad replaced wagons for transporting tobacco and indigo - a diversity of storekeepers moved from King Street to East Bay. Although cotton still formed the bulk of export, the commerce of Charleston underwent great change. The J.N. Robson and Son records document these trends in export and domestic trade.
Dates:
1866 - 1933
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0194
Scope and Contents
The papers consist of daybooks, miscellaneous papers and scrapbooks, including an oversize scrapbook. Among the daybooks is one that contains "Collections on account of Melton and Clark from 1871-1875," but most of the daybooks contain information pertaining to cattle breeding for the period 1879-1910. The miscellaneous papers contain notes for a talk to be given November 6, 1928, to the South Carolina Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the unveiling of a tablet...
Dates:
1871 - 1931
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Adger, James
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Alley, James Pinckney, 1885-1934
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Charleston Independent Greens (Militia company)
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Chisolm's Rice Mill (Charleston, S.C.)
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Clark, W.A. (Washington Augustus), 1842 -
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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
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Elliott family.
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Elliott, Margaret Cowper
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Elliott, Ralph Emms, Dr.
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Elmwood Stock Farm (Columbia, S.C.)
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Gabel, James A., 1940-
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J.N. Robson and Son (Charleston, S.C.)
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Lee, Clermont H.
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Melton and Clark (Law firm)
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Rion, James H. (James Henry), 1828-1886
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South Carolina. Convention (1860-1862)
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State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina
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