Spring 2020 Archives Update

Posted: March 30, 2020

Since the last Archives update, many new items have been added to the Archives/Library and the Online Catalog including property information, library items, photographs, and other visual materials. Here are just a few of the new additions:

Archives: 

• Graduate student research reports on buildings associated with Suffragettes (9 Broad, 134 Broad, 7 Gibbes, 227 King, 31 Meeting, 5 Pitt, 9 Pitt, 18 Rutledge, 44 South Battery, 20 Water)
• Original blueprints for 17 Longitude Lane, possibly by Albert Simons

South Elevation, 17 Longitude Lane

• Business stationery featuring engravings of buildings: 14 Broad Street, 17 Broad Street, and 302 King Street
• Oral history interviews about changing neighborhoods: Arthur Lawrence (West Side), Daisy Walsh (West Ashley), Erica and Dan Lesesne (Radcliffborough), and Vangie Rainsford (Mazyck-Wraggborough)

Library: 

• Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City by Witold Rybczynski (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
• Overtourism: Issues, Realities and Solutions by Rachel Dodds and Richard W. Butler (Berlin, Germany: De Druyter, 2019)
• Lost Charleston by J. Grahame Long (Charleston: History Press, 2019)
• Lost Charleston by Leigh Jones Handal (London, England: Pavilion Books, 2019)
• Sustainable Heritage: Merging Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation by Amalia Lefieste and Barry L. Stiefel (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Photographs and Other Visual Materials:

• 1907 photographic postcard of the Charleston Water Works Office building and the standpipe
• B&W photographs showing the aftermath of the tornadoes of September 29, 1938
• Four photographs: Kodachrome slide of a view on Church Street (1949); photograph of 338 Sumter Street (1920s); photograph of 340 Meeting Street (Weyman’s Folly) (ca. 1920); photograph (carte-de-visite) of the Magnolia Cemetery Lodge (ca. 1859)

Magnolia Cemetery Lodge

• Three postcards: “View from Francis Marion Hotel, looking towards Cooper River Bridge,” “Cooper River Bridge,” and “The Heart of Charleston Motor Hotel”
• Stereoscope slides/transparencies featuring Charleston buildings, sites, and streetscapes

Stereoscope Slide: South Battery

• Color slides of Rockville and Wadmalaw properties, Sullivans Island beach houses, McClellanville properties, Hampton Park Terrace properties, Runnymede Plantation, the St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Tabernacle/Camp Meeting Ground and Shady Grove Camp Ground, Indian Field Tabernacle and Cypress Methodist Camp Ground, and the Lucas Family Cemetery.

… AND MUCH MORE! The Online Catalog contains records that describe thousands of items in Historic Charleston Foundation’s Archives. It is updated on a regular basis, so please check often.

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