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The first basket teacher at the Penn School worked to revive and perpetuate the African basket making skills among the children of the Sea Islands. The baskets made had a wide range of utilitarian...
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Alice Huger Ravenel Smith painted a number of watercolor scenes of the rice cultivation process in the Lowcountry at the turn of the 20th century. The process had not changed substantially since it...
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John R. Schorb (1818-1908) was an early photographer in South Carolina, practicing first as a daguerreotypist, and later using wet and dry plate photographic techniques, in Winnsboro and Yorkville...
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Richard S. Roberts (1880-1936), a talented photographer, left an enduring film record of Columbia's African-American middle class community during the 1920s and 1930s. This self portrait was taken in...
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Charles Fraser (1782-1860), born in Charleston, began his education at a classical school and continued at the College of Charleston. At an early age, he showed artistic qualities which were...
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Laura Glenn Douglas (1886-1962), New Deal artist, was born in Winnsboro and studied at the College for Women in Columbia, and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. She subsequently studied in...
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A poet, politician and reformer born in Charleston, William Crafts, Jr. (1787-1826), was educated by tutors and later entered Harvard, graduating in 1805. He returned to Charleston and studied law...
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William Henry Brown (1808-1883), born in Charleston, was an unusual South Carolina artist, known for his portrait silhouettes. This is a self-portrait, illustrating a form of likeness that was popular...
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Gwen Bristow (1903-1980) was a widely-read South Carolina novelist who published historical works drawn from her southern heritage and travel. Born the daughter of a Baptist minister in Marion, she...
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Born on a plantation on the Waccamaw River, near Georgetown, Washington Allston (1779-1843) attended a preparatory school in Newport, Rhode Island, where he first became interested in art. After...