A. Educational Institutions

Important Institutions in South Carolina

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute, Barhamville | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute in Barhamville, just north of the city of Columbia, was opened in 1829 to offer women a higher education. It was sketched in about 1860 by M. Dovilliers, who...

The Camden Male Academy | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Camden Male Academy was conducted as a semi-military academy, training young men in martial skills by Charles H. Peek in Camden from 1859 until his death in 1863. Many of the cadets, shown here in...

Original Building of the Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

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The original building of the Penn School photographed around 1890. The Penn School, located on St. Helena's Island, was the first school for freed African-Americans opened by northerners in the South...

The Avery Institute in Charleston | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Avery Institute in Charleston. The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association in the spring of 1865, and initially named after the New York abolitionist Lewis...

First Graded School in St. Matthews | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The first graded school in St. Matthews, photographed around 1910. A campaign to improve rural schools in the late 19th century replaced many one-room schools, in which all students were taught by a...

Booker T. Washington High School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Booker T. Washington High School, Class of 1933, seated on the lawn in front of the main entrance to the school. Founded in 1916, the school was, until its closing in 1974, the hub of the separate...

Elementary School Class at Everett School | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

The Chappelle Administration Building Of Allen University | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Chappelle Administration Building of Allen University, photographed by Richard S. Roberts in 1922, shortly after its construction. A school organized and run by African-Americans, it was...

Main Building of Anderson College | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

Benedict College | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

Dargan's School in Darlington | History of SC Slide Collection

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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.

Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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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...

Taylor Street School in Columbia | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Taylor Street School in Columbia, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Murchison High School in Bennettsville | History of SC Slide Collection

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Murchison High School in Bennettsville, around 1910. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.

Students Form Confederate Flag | History of SC Slide Collection

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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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...