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Moonshine raid photograph
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 1: 1997-2011
Identifier: SCPL-2010-007
Content Description
Single photograph of still and moonshine materials gathered in a raid and displayed on the steps of Spartanburg City Hall. Photograph was made by Alfred Willis on the morning of May 6, 1930. Spartanburg Journal newspaper article of May 6, 1930 identifies the image as showing the contents of an illegal distilling operation seized from the second story of the home of J. F. Jenkins at 364 Marion Avenue. Five people were arrested and soon after the image was made, the whiskey and mash were poured...
Dates:
1930-05-06
S.C. Mouzon portrait of unidentified man
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 1: 1997-2011
Identifier: SCPL-2010-015
Content Description
One cabinet card photograph of unidentified man by S. C. Mouzon, a Spartanburg photographer.
Dates:
1890
George Donald Mullinax collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2019-024
Content Description
George Donald Mullinax was veteran who fought in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Born in Clifton, SC he grew up in a community with strong ties to the textile industry. The four series in this collection reflect Mullinax's interests in his personal family history, the town of Clifton and the surrounding communites, the textile industry in Spartanburg county and its decline, and Camp Croft. This collection consists of papers, photographs, negatives, and newspaper articles about the four...
Dates:
1908 - 2007
Murphy/Sessions/Geer Family collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2014-013
Content Description
This collection includes papers, photographs and books that had belonged to James Hamilton Geer, Jr. The bulk of the materials were created by his mother, Josephine Sessions Geer and his grandfather, F. Perry Sessions. Other family names represented in the collection include Murphy and Johnson. These families had their roots in Georgetown County, South Carolina, but Perry and Josephine spent many years living in Spartanburg. Josephine later moved to Rye, New York. Areas of focus in the...
Dates:
1880 - 1970
Muster Roll of Captain J.W. Bobo, Company H, Fifth Regiment of the State Troop Army from the 11th day of September 1863
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2011-010
Content Description
1863/64 muster roll of Co. H, 5th Reg. South Carolina State Troops
Dates:
1863
NASCAR entry form
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 6: 2018-2019
Identifier: SCPL-2019-028
Content Description
This collection consists of one entry form to a NASCAR race that was held at the Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds. The form includes a space to fill out information on the driver and owner of the car as well as advertising information on the race including a break down of how the prize money was to be distributed, the distance of the race, and the promoters name.
Dates:
1963-03-02
National Bicentennial Competition collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCPL-2013-019
Content Description
For the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, the Center for Civic Education developed a specially designed curriculum to teach students about the Constitution and Bill of Rights that centered around a national competition. Elaine Marks worked as the district coordinator for the South Carolina 4th District for the competition. This collection consists of the documents that Marks collected related to organizing the district competition.
Dates:
1981 - 1988
Neale Young Circle Missionary Society minute book
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 6: 2018-2019
Identifier: SCPL-2019-037
Content Description
This collection consists of one book containing the meeting minutes for the Neale Young Circle Missionary Society in Arcadia, SC.
Dates:
1934 - 1939
Nesbitt-Galloway Family papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCPL-2016-001
Content Description
This collection consists of papers from multiple Spartanburg County families including the Nesbitts, Stewarts, Jacksons, Shores, and Galloways. The papers include correspondence, photographs, legal documents including land deeds, and school papers including report cards.
Dates:
1852 - 1988
W. F. Newman mortgage
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 4: 2014-2015
Identifier: SCPL-2015-008
Content Description
Mortgage on two mules and four bales of cotton signed by W. F. Newman for $351. Mortgage issued to O. P. Morgan and registered in Moore, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
W.F. Newman may refer to William Fredrick Newman (1891-1961).
W.F. Newman may refer to William Fredrick Newman (1891-1961).
Dates:
1914-01-21
Joseph Nohra Camp Croft photographs
Collection — Box: Single File Collections Box 1: 1997-2011
Identifier: SCPL-2011-018
Content Description
Joseph Nohra was a soldier stationed at Camp Croft during World War II. This collection consists of twenty photographs that Nohra acquired during his time in service. Twelve are reprinted photos depicting soldiers in Spartanburg and training at Camp Croft during World War II. One notable image shows the "Spartanburg Fair Negro Entrance." Eight of the photos were taken overseas depicting soldiers on parade, captured German planes and tanks.
Dates:
1940 - 1945
Oakwood Cemetery ledgers
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2014-019
Content Description
Two ledgers. Volume I covers activities from approximately 1887 to 1900 and lists plot owners in Sections A-C of Oakwood Cemetery and transfers of graves from Magnolia Street Cemetery in 1887. Volume II contains a list of stockholders and minutes of the Oakwood Cemetery Association from 1886 to 1941.
Dates:
1885 - 1941
Odds and ends (2011)
Collection — Box: Single File Collections Box 2: 2011-2014
Identifier: SCPL-2011-025
Content Description
Postcard of 36th Infantry Training Battalion, Camp Croft mailed from Pvt. H. E. Wilber to Miss Ruth WilberPhoto of J. White Westmoreland, last Confederate veteran in Woodruff area, May 1936Promissory note between Mary H. Wright and P. A. McWhirter, October 1934SC Gubernatorial Inaugural program, January 15, 1963, for Donald RussellDorman High School homecoming football program, November 6, 1964Fairforest High School Choral Concert...
Dates:
1934 - 1965
Olney Paint Company photographs
Collection — Box: Single File Collections Box 2: 2011-2014
Identifier: SCPL-2013-002
Content Description
Seven photographs depicting interior and exterior views of the Olney Paint Company's location on Trade Street and St. John Street. Two additional photographs are believed to depict the residence of Robert Olney on Crystal Drive in Spartanburg.
Dates:
1940 - 1970
Pamphlet File collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-PAM-001
Scope and Contents
A pamphlet file, also refered to as a vertical file, is a file of materials that have been collected and arranged for ready reference in a file cabnet. The materials in a pamphlet file include newspaper clippings, photocopies, print-outs, brochures, pamphlets, and other types of paper that are not considered unique, archival items.
Dates:
1900 - 2019
Parham Family portraits
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2018-001
Content Description
Four oversize portraits in charcoal depicting African-American adults. One of the portraits has "James Parham" written on the reverse.
Dates:
1900
Park Hills Elementary School photograph albums
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2012-001
Content Description
Five (5) albums and two folders of classroom photographs depicting students and staff of Park Hills Elementary spanning the years 1959 to 1978, the bulk of which date to the early 1960s.
Dates:
1959 - 1978
E. Gibbes Patton papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2011-012
Content Description
This collection consists of fifteen folders containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, and notes regarding environmental advocacy in Spartanburg County. Collected by Ernest Gibbes Patton, biology professor at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Dates range from the 1970s to the 1990s. Topics covered include Lawson's Fork Creek, greenspace at North Greenville College, a proposed Environmental Information Center (LOCUS), a proposed extension of Daniel Morgan Avenue,...
Dates:
1971 - 1999
Paul Fabio aerial photographs
Item
Identifier: SCPL-2010-002
Content Description
One roll of negative film depicting a series of aerial photographs taken July 3, 1980 by Paul Fabio. Flight plan indicates two courses, the first of which includes Seneca, Clemson, and the area north of Anderson, the second stretches from north of Lyman to Arcadia, western Spartanburg and south to Pauline. Negative had not been examined to confirm subject areas.
Dates:
1980-07-03
Everett Pearson papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2013-016
Content Description
Correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, medals, and military records relating to the army service of Staff Sergeant Everett Pearson during World War II. Pearson was a Woodruff, South Carolina native active in France during 1944 and 1945 as part of the 249th Combat Engineers Battalion. Correspondence written to his mother and father in Woodruff makes up the bulk of the collection and spans from April of 1944 through October of 1945.
Dates:
1914 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1945
Sarah Allen Perry recipe book
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 4: 2014-2015
Identifier: SCPL-2014-038
Content Description
Handwritten recipe book originally compiled by Mrs. Josiah Wiley Perry of Cedar Springs, South Carolina in 1893 and later given to her daughter, Annie Perry Jester in 1927. Contains approximately thirty pages of handwritten and newsprint recipes.
Dates:
1893-07-09
Terri L. Phillips collection
Collection — Box: Single File Collections Box 3: 2014
Identifier: SCPL-2014-012
Content Description
The collection consists of a postcard depicting an old grist mill near Spartanburg (ca. 1950) and two election documents: a list of voters for the election of the Spartanburg District Ordinary on August 11, 1857 at Campobello and election tallies for various Spartanburg District polling places for the election of state legislators on October 15, 1828.
Dates:
1828 - 1950
"Pickaninny Review" postcard
Item — Box: Single File Collections Box 4: 2014-2015
Identifier: SCPL-2014-043
Content Description
One postcard labeled "pickaninny review of army truck train, Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C," depicting four black children watching an army truck pass by. Originally mailed in 1917 to Mrs. Delia Spoor of Mount Vernon, New York. Written content: "Hello! Pretty busy. Have to cut trees and pulls the stumps before we can pitch our tents. Mud is 2 feet deep here. My cold is just the same. Very sore throat and racking cough! Feel pretty good though. Rains. Very busy. Write later. Love, Clyde."
Dates:
1917
Piedmont Chapter of the American Red Cross records
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2012-015
Scope and Contents
The Piedmont Chaper, originally the Spartanburg Chapter, of the American Red Cross was established in 1917. The Chapter merged into the Upstate South Carolina Chapter around 2015. This collection consists of photographs, documents, audio visual materials, and objects that document the history of the chapter. The majority of materials are from the 1980s to the early 2000s, but dates range from 1917 to 2007. Specific types of materials include scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, annual reports,...
Dates:
1917 - 2007
Piedmont Interstate Fair collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2013-008
Content Description
This collection consists of the institutional archives of the Piedmont Interstate Fair along with various materials from the earlier Spartanburg County Fair and Woodruff Agricultural Society Fair. The collection includes premium lists covering most years from 1907-2012, newspaper clippings from a variety of upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina sources, posters, photographs, slides, negatives, awards, stock certificates, and performer promotions. The photographs primarily cover the...
Dates:
1907 - 2012
Pierce Motor Company, Lincoln-Mercury Building photograph
Item — Box: Misc. Oversized
Identifier: SCPL-2015-043
Content Description
One original photographic print mounted to mat board depicting the Lincoln-Mercury Building of Pierce Motor Company on South Church Street in downtown Spartanburg. Mat board is marked with the name of the architectural firm, Hudson and Chapman Architects
Dates:
1947
Preservation Trust of Spartanburg records
Collection
Identifier: SCPL-2019-017
Content Description
The Preservation Trust of Spartanburg was a non-profit organization that bought and renovated historic properties in the Hampton Heights neighborhood. This collection consists of records documenting the activities of the Preservation Trust including buying and renovating houses, helping with owner occupied renovations, and other administrative papers. There are also photographs, awards, VHS tapes, and CDs.
Dates:
1990 - 2010
President Taft in Columbia, SC photograph
Item — Box: Single File Collections: Folio
Identifier: SCPL-2015-042
Content Description
William Howard Taft was the president of the United States from 1909 to 1913. In November 1909, Taft became the first standing president to visit the city of Columbia, SC since Washington in 1791. This collection consists of one oversize photographic print produced by Columbia Photo Studio depicting President William Howard Taft riding in an early model automobile during this visit. The photograph may have been taken at the State Fairgrounds where Taft gave a speech.
Dates:
1909-11-06
Publications on James F. Byrnes
Collection — Box: Single File Collections Box 3: 2014
Identifier: SCPL-2014-025
Content Description
Two (2) copies of James F. Byrnes Day (May 2, 1972) program, September 5, 1936 issue of South Carolina Newsview with cover article on JFB, January 6, 1947 issue of Time Magazine with James F. Byrnes named Man of the Year, and March 1947 issue of South Carolina Magazine with cover article on JFB.
Dates:
1936 - 1972
Pure Oil gas station photographs
Collection — Box: Single File Collections Box 4: 2014-2015
Identifier: SCPL-2014-047
Content Description
Two photographic reprints of Pure Oil gas stations in the Spartanburg area. Exact location not identified.
Dates:
1941
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