Winter 2020-21 Archives Update

Posted: February 23, 2021

ATTENTION ALL RESEARCHERS! Since the last Archives update of Spring 2020, many new items have been added to the Archives/Library, including property information, books and reports, photographs, and more. Here are some of the new additions:

Archives: 

• Graduate student research reports on buildings constructed on infilled land throughout the Charleston peninsula: 49 Ashley Avenue, 43 South Battery, 13 Greenhill Street, 10 Colonial Street, 2-4 Gillon Street, 1 Bennett Street, 32 North Market Street, 101 Beaufain Street, 118 Rutledge Avenue, 16-18 Vendue Range, 10 Gadsden Street, 10 Exchange Street, and 346 East Bay Street
• Late-19th and Early-20th Century Invoices: Each invoice features an image of the buildings: W.C. Forsythe & Son Dry Goods, Clothing (NE corner King Street/Burns Lane); Columbian Banking & Trust Co. (561 King Street); John McAlister, Funeral Director and Embalmer (163-169 Meeting Street); John F. Riley Foundry and Machine Works (6-12 South Street)
• Revolution or Rebellion Recordation Forms: survey of memorial plaques and markers in Charleston
• Documentation of the Johnson Funeral Home (Mount Pleasant)

Library: 

• The Shattered Dream: A Southern Bride at the Turn of the Century
• Documentation of the Sanders House, Cainhoy Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina
• City of Charleston Design Division Reports (2014-2018)
• The Progressive Club
• A Journey Through Time: The Official Documentary of the Mount Pleasant Sesquicentennial (video recording)
• Growing a New Johns Island
• We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
• “Behind God’s Back”: Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina
• Lowcountry at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina
• Betty Stringfellow’s Seabrook Island Then & Now (video recording)
• Called to Forgive: The Charleston Church Shooting, a Victim’s Husband, and the Path to Healing and Peace

Photographs:

• Photographs featuring structures near the South Santee River (late 19^th c.)
• Photograph of 25 East Battery (late 19^th c.)
• Photographs of the St. John Hotel (1965)
• Color slides of properties in Georgetown, Beaufort County, and North Charleston (ca. 1995)
• Postcard with a view looking east on St. Michael’s Alley from Church Street (1911)
• Photograph of the NW corner of State and Cumberland after 1938 tornado
• Photograph of a view north on King Street from 244 King/245 King (mid-1920s)
• Color slides featuring of properties in Edisto Island, Charleston County, and Dorchester County (1990s)
• Photographs of views of Charleston wharves (1920s)
• Stereograph card of the view north on Church Street from Broad Street (ca. 1900)

 Alice & Eddie at Peachtree Plantation

… AND MUCH MORE! Remember to search the Online Catalog when studying historic properties in Charleston, where you’ll find records describing the thousands of items in Historic Charleston Foundation’s Archives that may be useful for your research. The catalog is updated on a regular basis, so please check often. Contact Karen Emmons for more information.

2 responses to “Winter 2020-21 Archives Update”

1. Alexander Malcolm GATEWOOD says:

   April 19, 2021 at 11:07 am

   I am researching my Family history and I have found that my Great Great Grandfather is
   William Cunningham Gatewood.
   Any information you can supply would be appreciated. I can supply information regarding his son, William Alexander Gatewood. This is somewhat limited as I cannot find his birth place or how he came to be in Liverpool although he was a mariner.
   The various wars in U.S. history makes it difficult to research earlier ancestors.
   Regards
   Alexander Malcolm Gatewood

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   • Holland Williams says:

     April 20, 2021 at 9:22 am

     Hi. We do not keep genealogy files; only files on historic buildings. You may want to check SC Room at Chas County Library or SC Historical Society. Good luck!

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