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Winthrop students in the Home Economics Department prepare and serve an elaborate outdoor tea, around 1950. Note the white gloves and hats. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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The picnic and camping facilities at Myrtle Beach State Park were one of the Civilian Conservation Corps construction projects completed for the South Carolina State Parks during the 1930s. Here a...
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Hunting wild turkeys has been a sport and a means of providing food in South Carolina since before the arrival of the first European settlers. This turkey was shot by Calder W. Seibels of Columbia...
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Swimming in the tree-shaded waters of Black Creek has been a long tradition in the Hartsville-Darlington region; this group of bathers enjoyed the cool water sometime around 1920. Courtesy of the...
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Clyde Crocker's birthday party was celebrated on an outdoor table in a back yard in Saxon Mill Village, Spartanburg, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Here, a group of young women exercise in the "Out-Door Gymnasium" at Winthrop College in Rock Hill. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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This boxing match was one of many events that made the new Community Building built by the Mill a center for leisure-time activities of the Winnsboro Mill operatives and their families around 1929...
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A polo match in Aiken. Both Aiken and Camden have been noted for polo matches, and for sportsmen who raise and train the polo ponies essential to this mounted team sport. 1930s, WPA. Courtesy of the...
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Harness racing at Myrtle Beach, photographed by Paul M. Pillsbury. WPA photo, 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A tennis game in progress at the Highland Park Hotel in 1890. A note on the back of this photograph, written long afterward when sports clothing for women had changed dramatically, asked a young...