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Claflin University | History of SC Slide Collection
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Citadel Cadets in Dormitory Rooms | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
The Citadel in 1904 | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
West Florence High School Cafeteria | History of SC Slide Collection
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West Florence High School cafeteria, 1970. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.
Interior of the Mather School | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Unnamed African-American School | History of SC Slide Collection
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The junior class and the fourth grade of an unnamed African-American school in Chester, around 1912.
Loulie Shand's Kindergarten Class | History of SC Slide Collection
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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.