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First draft manuscript of the novel published as Porgy in 1925, and later adapted into the opera "Porgy and Bess." This excerpt includes only part of the full manuscript, through the end of Chapter 1, as well as a note on the manuscript's provenance…

Typescript manuscript of the novel published as Porgy in 1925, and later adapted into the opera "Porgy and Bess." In his 1954 monograph DuBose Heyward, the Man Who Wrote Porgy, Dubose Heyward's friend Dr. Frank Durham writes, "A study of the first…

A list of art in the collection of the Dr. Joseph Johnson House at 56 Society Street, Charleston.

Typewritten description of Gordon Langley Hall's life and bibliography.

Typewritten press release describing the restoration of the Dr. Joseph Johnson House at 56 Society Street in Charleston.

Description of Simmons' gender reassignment surgery at John Hopkins University and her new name of Dawn Pepita Langley Hall.

A postcard featuring a statue from the garden of the Dr. Joseph Johnson House at 56 Society Street, signed by Gordon Langley Hall.

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…

Col. Robert Brewton house

Back of photograph: "(c) Henry P. Staats / 83-85 Church St." 83-85 Church Street, Cabbage Row or William Hendricks Tenements were constructed in 1749 or 1750 by the Christ Church planter William Hendricks. The first name refers to cabbages that were…