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Cooking today is a very different matter from the days of wood-burning stoves, when an important chore of children of the house was keeping the stove supplied with wood. This cast-iron stove was...
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The Wicklow Hall Plantation kitchen building, photographed in the 1930s. Kitchen buildings were not part of the main house on a plantation, but were built at a small distance, both to reduce the risk...
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Teenagers dance to juke box music outdoors on a poured concrete floor at Campbell's Pond, the "Negro Area" of Cheraw State Park, on August 2, 1951. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Parks...
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Four young African-American men in uniform sing into the microphone of WNOK radio, Columbia, during the era of World War II. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Chatter Box dance band provided a big band sound for the popular dancing of the 1940s. Mary Taylor, at the extreme right, joined the "all girl violin section" in March 1944. Mrs. Taylor later ran...
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These young ladies are all students at the Lashley School of Dancing in Greenville in 1934. Photo by Dowling. Courtesy of the Greenville County Historical Society.
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The Jenkins Orphanage Brass Band in Charleston. The orphanage was begun in 1891 by an African-American minister, Reverend Daniel Jenkins, to remove young African-American children from the street and...
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This group of Winthrop College students called their music organization The Caterwaulers, in a photo which appeared in the college 1910 yearbook. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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"Saturday Night," an etching by artist James F. Cooper (1907-1968) from the late 1930s, is probably a scene from Pawley's Island, where Cooper owned a beach house. "Saturday Night" is more than simply...
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The Dock Street Theater in Charleston. One of the first theaters in North America, a "New Theater on Dock Street" was built as early as 1735 or 1736, and Charlestonians have enjoyed good dramatic...