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Roper Hospital, named after a Charlestonian who willed extensive real estate to the Medical Society of South Carolina (see The Medical College Of South Carolina) for the establishment of a hospital...
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Health care required the training of medical personnel. A number of hospitals in South Carolina offered programs in nursing training early in the 20th century, mostly in an apprenticeship system of...
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Tuberculosis was a serious disease of the 19th century that claimed many lives. Known also as "consumption," it was highly contagious, as well as requiring complete rest for recovery. South Carolina's...
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The WPA provided funds to help build new women's dormitories for a county home for the aged in Spartanburg County. The residents in 1938 seem to like their new rooms. Courtesy of the National Archives...
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The Confederate Soldiers Home was a state-supported institution for elderly veterans of the Civil War. This photograph was taken in the late 1930s shortly after the grounds had been relandscaped as...
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The State Asylum, Columbia, later known as the State Hospital, as it appeared around 1850. Designed as a "Lunatic Asylum" by Robert Mills and completed in 1828, it was noted for its innovative ideas...
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Wofford College, founded in 1850 through a gift from local Methodist minister Benjamin Wofford, was one of the several denominational colleges that emerged in competition with the South Carolina...
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Winthrop Industrial College, photographed May 12, 1894, was the industrial half of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial School constructed in Rock Hill. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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This 1974 photograph of a Winthrop College classroom illustrates many of the changes in higher education that occurred in South Carolina in the late 1960s. The College had become co-educational, and...
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In the 1950s, Winthrop was still a college for white women, with rules regarding dress and class attendance. These attentive students taking notes in a large classroom are a remarkable contrast to...