Many of the images in the three sections of the collection preceding this one ("Economic Activity in South Carolina,""Transportation in South Carolina," and "South Carolina Towns and Cities") are also about the everyday lives of ordinary people: the work they have done, the places they lived, the means by which they moved back and forth between home and work, or home and play. But this section is intended to focus particularly on the people themselves. The organization of this section is a mixture of category and chronology. Because South Carolinians have taken sports seriously, the first images here are of competitive sports. These are followed by images of outdoor recreation; of ceremonies, parades and demonstrations; of the making of music and of dancing, as well as other forms of the art of entertainment; of cooking and cleaning; of creating crafts. The final group of images is one of portraits: people in groups, and people as individuals. In some cases, we know their names. In many cases, we do not. For all, their smiles, their poses, their surroundings are memorable: from the anticipation of a group of teenagers about to board a bus for a trip, to the serenity of a young Civil War wife to travel to Charleston to see her soldier husband - these are all people to whom we respond in recognition and delight.
Photo of the Laurens Football Team circa 1909 courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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In the early 19th century, childhood began to be perceived as a time of innocence, and children as something different from miniature adults. Robert and Elizabeth Gilcrest were painted by the...
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This group of Winthrop College students called their music organization The Caterwaulers, in a photo which appeared in the college 1910 yearbook. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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These boys from the Greenville YMCA entered a float in a 1924 parade. Courtesy of the Greenville County Historical Society.
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This photograph from the album of J.S. White records a picnic in the vicinity of Rock Hill in May of 1897. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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These women are receiving their diplomas as "Gray Ladies," volunteers in Columbia's African-American hospital, around 1950. Alt-Lee photographers. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Jenkins Orphanage Brass Band in Charleston. The orphanage was begun in 1891 by an African-American minister, Reverend Daniel Jenkins, to remove young African-American children from the street and...
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The painter Thomas Sully (1783-1872) portrayed his own daughters, Blanche and Rosalie, in a painting often titled "The Rose and the Lilly." As a child, Sully lived in Charleston and appeared there...
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Women played competitive team sports too, as illustrated by this lively basketball game between Winthrop College and Converse College in 1912. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The caption found on this photo reads: "The Keen Teens of the Columbia Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., a national black youth organization, attended the Teenage Regional recently held in...
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This is a copy of an original daguerreotype made in Charleston when George Wilson (born in 1838) was stationed there in 1861 at the beginning of the Civil War. (See Portrait Of Katherine Osman Wilson)...
