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Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-151
Scope and Contents
This collection contains business records, cancelled checks, notes, and bills collected during Thomas Fanning Wood Jr.'s association with Alexander Sprunt & Son. Wood represented Alexander Sprunt & Son in New York and Europe, mainly in the Netherlands and France. The overseas cablegrams relating to business matters are in code.
The collection also contains correspondence with the Sarah Leigh Clinic in Norfolk, VA. These letters concern Mrs. Wood and her battle with breast cancer....
Dates:
1907-1927, Undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-020
Scope and Contents
As governor of Maryland, Thomas G. Pratt issued a proclamation designating Thursday, November 16, 1846, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving in the state of Maryland. At that time, it was customary for the governor to annually assign such a day. This proclamation is dated October 8, 1846.
Dates:
1846 October 8
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-001
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection consists of letters written by Thomas J. Armstrong's son, Edward Hall Armstrong, during the Civil War. Also included are: a photograph of Edward, his officer commissions, and his book on military tactics, eulogies for Edward by various persons, a letter from Edward's body servant--an enslaved person named Moses, and miscellaneous letters and documents from other family members, including Thomas's boyhood reminiscences, a receipt for sale of an enslaved person, and...
Dates:
1859-1885
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-273
Scope and Contents
Artifacts, papers, and photos documenting Thomas Groome's 25 years as an Air Force Chaplain, from 1949 - 1974.
Dates:
1962-2003
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-007
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of 1688 deed for Oyster Poynt in Charlestowne, Carolina. In the winter of 1688, Thomas Smith purchased a six acre plot of land in Charlestowne, Carolina known as Oyster Point. Smith's grant was an ornately decorated, well delineated description, containing three major areas of information: a sketch of the location showing bounding lots; a surveyor's report; and a formal statement from the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina.In the upper left corner of the...
Dates:
1688-1693
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-036
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities Wilmington's Thursday Morning Music Club from its origin in 1892 to 2014, including the club's affiliation with the North Carolina and National Federations of Music Clubs. Represented in the records are minutes, bylaws, banking records, reports, correspondence, member directories, programs, and yearbooks. Of historical significance are the minutes of the club's first meetings documenting its founding members, meeting locations and songs practiced....
Dates:
1892-2014
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-322
Abstract
The currency in this collection was a gift from Virginia Rivenbark Tiden, Jean Tilden Sigvaldsen and Gary S. Sigvaldsen in February 2009. Description of currency is from: Grover C. Criswell, Jr., Confederate and Southern State Currency : A Descriptive Listing, Including Rarity and Prices. 2nd rev. ed ed. Citra, Fla.: Criswell's & Criswell's Publications, 1976.
Krause, Chester L., Standard Catalog of United States Paper...
Dates:
1863-1875, 1958, 1968-1981
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-064
Scope and Contents
Cigarette cards were a common form of advertising in the late 1800s. This collection contains thirty-four tobacco cards, two larger size color posters, and an envelope with a printed return address of "W.H. Lowdermilk & Co." located in Washington, DC. All items are undated.
Dates:
Undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-327
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides and game day programs mainly from SC colleges, universities and high schools that were collected by Tom Summers. A few items from professional sports are included. Also included in the collection are sports magazines and books, photos, newspapers articles, and other memorabilia, as well as Summers’ published newspaper columns and books, Hunkering Down: My Story in Four Decades of Clinical Pastoral Education and Want a Frog?...
Dates:
1944-2012
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-405
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of longtime Thalian Hall director Tony Rivenbark. Material includes his personal research and production work related to Thalian Hall, as well as material on historic American theatres. Original material mainly dates from the 1980s-2020. Some old photos and glamour shots of performers appear circa early 1900s-1930s.
Dates:
1900s-2020