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City and municipal government is an important part of South Carolina's governing structure. This is an interior view of the second floor council chamber in Charleston's City Hall in the 1930s...
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The Columbia City Waterworks were completed in January of 1907 to pump water from the Columbia Canal and treat it before pumping it to serve the city's residents. Before the construction of this...
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The Darlington Police Department in 1984 had both women and African-Americans as uniformed officers. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.
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Fire companies were usually volunteer associations, and separate African-American and white companies developed in most sizeable towns in the state after the Civil War. The Star Fire Engine Company...
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The Charleston Police Department, 1911. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The South Carolina Penitentiary, the Central Correctional Institute, was founded in 1865. This 1910 postcard view shows the prison building and hospital. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard...
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The Jail and Marine Hospital in Charleston. From "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion," 1857. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The Charleston Museum, one of the oldest in the nation, had its beginnings as a collection of scientific specimens by the Charleston Library Society in 1778. By 1843, the collection had been...
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Museums as institutions help citizens identify with their past. This "Relic Room" was maintained in the State House until the completion in November 1935 of the War Memorial building on Sumter Street...
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Segregation policies led to attempts by the African-American community to ensure that institutions such as libraries were created for their use, and the African-American library movement was...