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This photo is of the old Greenville men's campus. The bell tower on Furman Hall, one of the original 1851 buildings, was a landmark of the campus and the community. Courtesy of the Greenville County...
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First proposed by Dr. Richard Furman in 1821 (see Richard Furman), but not established until 1825 by the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the Furman Academy and Theological Institution opened at...
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Erskine College, located in Due West in Abbeville County, was founded by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1839, and named in honor of the Scottish founder of the denomination, Ebenezer...
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An aerial view of Clemson stadium, around 1960. Alumni, parents, and supporters of Clemson's football team come from all over the state for home games, as illustrated by the parking lots surrounding...
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Clemson University, an interior view of the Library taken by the WPA in the 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Clemson University was founded in 1889 after Thomas Green Clemson, the son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, gave $80,000 and 814 acres of his estate for the creation of an agricultural college. The state...
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The Main Building of Claflin College, photographed by Francis Benjamin Johnston in 1899. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Claflin University, an engraving from Colyer Meriwether's "History of Higher Education in South Carolina," published in 1889. The Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church founded...
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Citadel Cadets show one of the dormitory rooms in the original campus, with mattresses neatly stacked in storage shelves, 1898-1902. The Citadel moved from its downtown campus to a new 200-acre campus...
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Produced in Japanese, this series contains 20 lessons on the intermediate level for teachers to use in foreign language science study. The toco toucans are medium-sized birds that are known for their...
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Produced in Japanese, this series contains 20 lessons on the intermediate level for teachers to use in foreign language science study. The largest species of the gibbon family in the forests of...
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Produced in Japanese, this series contains 20 lessons on the intermediate level for teachers to use in foreign language science study. The moon jelly is an invertebrate because it does not possess a...
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Produced in Japanese, this series contains 20 lessons on the intermediate level for teachers to use in foreign language science study. Jersey Cows are famous for the high butterfat content of their...
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Produced in French, this series contains 20 lessons on the beginner level for teachers to use in foreign language science study. The largest living cat is the Amur, or Siberian, tiger. These cats are...
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The Citadel in 1904. Its name is derived from the institution's origin in a fortress built to protect Charleston from slave uprisings. In the 1820s, after the Denmark Vesey plot of 1822...
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Converse College, Spartanburg, in 1909. Converse owes its name and its existence to D.E. Converse, a textile manufacturer from Massachusetts who came to Spartanburg in 1856. Believing that "the well...
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In 1890, the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina purchased the Hampton-Preston Mansion on Blanding Street from the Ursuline Sisters who had used it as a convent since the end of the war, and...
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West Florence High School cafeteria, 1970. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.
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The interior of the Mather School auditorium around 1940. Mather School was founded in 1868 in Beaufort by Mrs. Rachel Crane Mather of Boston, and was operated after 1882 by the Women's Baptist Home...
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This one-room school on Coosaw Island was taught by a Penn School graduate in the 1920s. A Penn School faculty member wrote a note on the back of the photograph, "It is to such conditions that our...
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The junior class and the fourth grade of an unnamed African-American school in Chester, around 1912.
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Loulie Shand's kindergarten class, Columbia, early in the 20th century. Photographer Walter L. Blanchard's daughter Ruth is the first girl on the right. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A group of school children visited Columbia on Lee-Jackson Day in January around 1910. Dressed in the appropriate colors, they formed the Confederate flag on the steps of the South Carolina State...
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Murchison High School in Bennettsville, around 1910. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.
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The Taylor Street School in Columbia, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The student body of Winyah School poses in front of the Winyah Indigo Society Hall, corner of Prince and Cannon Streets in Georgetown, on a warm spring day around 1900. The substantial profits made by...
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John J. Dargan was the principal and a teacher, and Gena Dargan a teacher, in Dargan's School in Darlington, photographed May 18, 1899.
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Founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Benedict College occupies a twenty-acre campus on Harden Street in Columbia, across Taylor Street from Allen University. As an important...
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The main building of Anderson College. Founded as Johnson Female Seminary in 1848, the school was later adopted by the Saluda Baptist Association, which planned to begin a Baptist institution for...
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An elementary school class at the Everett School in Winnsboro completes a class project in the 1950s. The Everett School was built in the Winnsboro Mills village in 1922. There had been a one-room...