Browse Collections (59 total)

Charles Izard Manigault Collection

Notes and journals of travels in China, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean. Reflections based on travels in China and Southeast Asia between…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digitization)

Hans Sloane Collection

Sloane, whose vast cabinet of curiosities would later become the foundation of The British Museum in 1753, began his omnivorous collecting habits in…

Contributors: Gucht, Michael van der, 1660-1725, engraver., Savage, John, active 1680, engraver.

Charleston Library Society Records

This collection includes Charleston Library Society (Charles-Town Library Society prior to 1783) institutional records from 1748 to present. The…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digitial assistant), Sutton, Jack (digital assistant), Smith, Anna (digital assistant)

John Drayton Collection

Bound manuscripts of John Drayton's The Carolinian Florist (1798) and A View of South Carolina (1801).
Signed copy of a letter to Robert Smith from…

Contributors: Fraser, John Rodolph., Smith, Robert.

Log of the Shenandoah

Records the cruise of the C.S.S. Shenandoah from Madeira to Australia and then to the Bering Sea and the taking of numerous prizes among American…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digitization)

Thomas Elfe Collection

Account book records receipts and expenditures not only for Elfe's cabinet making business, but also for real estate transactions and other personal…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digitization)

Robert Mills Collection

Early 19th century cound original plans of the architect Robert Mills entitled "Designs for an Episcopal Church to be erected on Johns Island near…

Contributors: Conservation funded by Dr. and Mrs. George Williams, 2013.

Visual Material Collection - Oversize

Black and white and sepia photos of street scenes of Charleston, c. 1920-1960.

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digital assistant)

Henry P. Moore Collection

Henry P. Moore, a photographer native to Concord, New Hampshire, traveled throughout the country in search of work throughout the Civil War from 1862…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digital assistant)

DuBose Heyward Collection, 1909-1939.

Documents related to DuBose Heyward, Charleston Renaissance author made famous by his 1925 novel Porgy. Porgy was later adapted into the George…