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City of Charleston and Colleton County woman's systematic accounts of annual expenditures, including charities and presents. Also includes items purchased for enslaved peoples. Annual income statements list sources of receipts, including hiring out…

Early 19th century cound original plans of the architect Robert Mills entitled "Designs for an Episcopal Church to be erected on Johns Island near Charleston S.C." Includes 6 watercolors of the facade, floor plan, north and south elevations,…

Photograph shows two trees and a few men near a cabin or slave quarters, Elliot Plantation. Reverse reads "Live oak and palmetto trees at Elliott's Place, Hilton Head, S.C."

Photo shows a group of enslaved African Americans posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Reverse reads "'Gwine to de Field,' Hopkinsons…

Group of emancipated enslaved people sitting in yard. With buildings visible in background. Reverse reads "Slaves of Reb. Gen. Thos. F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C."

Officers of the 3d New Hampshire Infantry in camp on Hilton Head Island. Reverse reads "Palmetto Tree, Emmons & Handersons Quarters, 3d N.H.V. Hilton Head, March 1862."

Photograph shows slaves working in the sweet potato fields on the Hopkinson plantation. Reverse reads "Sweet potato planting at Hopkinsons - Ediston Island, S.C. Apr. 1862. Donated by Peter Manigault through Warren Ripley."

The Charleston Library Society’s copy of the City of Charleston’s 1931 Report of the City Planning and Zoning Commission Upon a Program for the Development of a City Plan with Specific Studies of Certain Features Thereof was prepared for the city by…

Black and white photo of Josephine Pinckney leaning against a brick garden wall wearing a tweed blazer. Beige back of photo mat includes "Josephine Pinckney by Baxter Snark 18 April 1934 Charleston So. C. B. Snark is pseudonym of Prentiss Taylor, the…

Black and white photo of the 360 block of King Street looking south. Back features a grey photo mat.