J. Important Institutions in South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Though we celebrate individuals and families as the keystone of our society, and celebrate the communities in which the individuals live and work, it is often institutions that bridge the gap between the individual (or family) and the community. Institutions are the way in which we organize ourselves to achieve commonly held goals. Education begins at home--but it is the institutional structure of schools, academies, colleges, and universities that makes us an educated people. Faith is a private and individual matter of belief--but it is most often through the institutional churches that belief becomes active in the community. Communities provide hospitals, orphanages, prisons, and police and fire departments, because we value our mutual health and safety. And finally, government in a democratic republic is the institution we create to link all those institutions and ourselves together, to ensure that they work for the benefit of all of us, not just for a few. In this section of the collection you will find images of the physical structures in which institutions are housed, as well as a picture of the people that make them work.

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

 

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Baptismal Celebration | History of SC Slide Collection
Baptismal Celebration | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10

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Both white and African-American Baptists practice adult baptism by immersion as an important sacrament. This baptismal celebration of an African-American Baptist church in Darlington County took place...
Benedict College | History of SC Slide Collection
Benedict College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10

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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...
Portable Chest X-Ray Unit | History of SC Slide Collection
Portable Chest X-Ray Unit | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10

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Many of the endemic diseases that had killed children and young adults were gradually eliminated through better sanitation and medical immunization by the mid-20th century, but others remained. Here...
South Carolina Legislature | History of SC Slide Collection
South Carolina Legislature | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10

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South Carolina state government is carried out by the Governor and state legislature, and the laws they create are adjudicated by the state court system. Here, James F. Byrnes, Governor from 1951-1955...
Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection
Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 12

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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...
School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection
School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 18

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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...
The Monument of DeKalb | History of SC Slide Collection
The Monument of DeKalb | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 18

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"The Monument of DeKalb who fell fighting bravely in defense of the rights of man on the plains of Camden, SC, August 16th, 1780. Erected in the town of Camden. Front of the Presbyterian Church: the...