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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Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection
Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 21

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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...
Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection
Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 22

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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...
The Citadel in 1904 | History of SC Slide Collection
The Citadel in 1904 | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 23

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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...
Claflin University | History of SC Slide Collection
Claflin University | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 25

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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...
Clemson University | History of SC Slide Collection
Clemson University | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 27

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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...
Greenville Women's College | History of SC Slide Collection
Greenville Women's College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 34

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Greenville Women's College, photographed on May 15th, 1908. Established in 1854 by the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Greenville Baptist Female College opened in February 1856, on this site...