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Jack Alterman was born here in Charleston and has had a long career as a professional photographer. Mr. Alterman reflects on his family’s life and their dress shops on King Street, along with all of the changes he’s seen downtown during the last…

Transcript of the Report on Twenty-four Letters from President John Rutledge to the S.C. Delegates in Congress from May 1780 through January 1782, which were Presented to the Charleston Library Society by Thomas Bee, Esq., July 22, 1833.

Anne Walker Cleveland was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where her father served as a professor at Yale University. She studied at Smith College, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa for her work in history. She married Will Cleveland, an attorney,…

Transcription available below.Anne Walker Cleveland was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where her father served as a professor at Yale University. She studied at Smith College, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa for her work in history. She married…

Garden Frampton was born in Orangeburg in 1942. She has lived in Charleston since she was a small child and worked as a library page as a child when her mother Minnie Pringle Haigh was librarian. She shares her love for the Library during her…

William Jenkins (“Jenks”) Gibbs was born in 1938 in Charleston. He grew up downtown and had a career in banking and shipping. He served in the US Coast Guard and is a descendent of the Ball and Simons families. Mr. Gibbs discusses changes he’s…

Henry Grimball was born in Charleston in 1948. The Grimball family has long connections to South Carolina and to the Library Society, going back at least to the “brick” membership of Nathaniel Heyward in 1835. Mr. Grimball relates stories of his…

Ann Igoe was born in Florence, S.C. in 1935. She grew up in Darlington, S.C. A teacher of modern dance, Ms. Igoe has been in Charleston since 1959. She and her late husband Harold (“Skipper”) Igoe were participants in the poetry group that met at…

Martha Ingram was born in Charleston in 1935. She grew up downtown and went on to study history at Vassar. Mrs. Ingram shares about her family’s visits to the Library as a little girl and she recounts her job as a DJ at her father’s radio station…

Catherine Jones was born in Orlando in 1938. She has lived in Charleston since she was eleven years old and attended both the Citadel and the College of Charleston. After studying French in France, Mrs. Jones went on to teach French at Ashley Hall…