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Christensen, Niels, b. 1913. Niels Christensen, Jr., oral history interview, 1974 May 23 / [interviewed by Constance Myers].

Title: Niels Christensen, Jr., oral history interview, 1974 May 23 / [interviewed by Constance Myers].

Interview with Niels Christensen, Jr., native of Beaufort, S.C., son of S.C. Senator, Niels Christensen (1876-1939) and Katherine Wales ("Nancy") Straton Christensen, and grandson of Abbie Holmes Christensen (1852-1938). Topics discussed include his father's support for women's suffrage and his duties as founder, owner, editor, and publisher of Beaufort Gazette newspaper; his father's involvement with the S.C. Dispensary Board, Farmers and Taxpayers League, etc.; relations with the Pollitzer and Kennedy families and others; activities of his mother, Nancy Straton Christensen, a graduate of Radcliffe, as well as interests of other members of the Christensen family (Arthur, Andrea, Frederik Holmes, etc.), including temperance, religion, socialism, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (76 sheets) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51832334 View

Smoak, William Wightman, 1877-1947. Papers, 1895-1982.

Title: Papers, 1895-1982.

Correspondence, diary, autograph book, scrapbook, speeches, pamphlets, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, and other papers, relating to Smoak's career as editor and publisher of The Press and Standard, his political career in Walterboro, S.C., and as member of South Carolina House of Representatives, including chairman of County Organization Committee of the South Carolina Natural Resources Commission. Other subjects include agriculture, development of South Carolina's agricultural potential, development of Myrtle Beach, S.C., liquor laws, temperance, prohibition, state budget, and his family. Includes papers concerning his interest in literary societies and education in Walterboro, S.C., including attendance records and teacher registers. Other places represented include Colleton County, S.C. Correspondents include Albert Deems Betts, Solomon Blatt, James Francis Byrnes, Niels Christensen, Richard M. Jefferies, J. Rion McKissick, L. Mendel Rivers, and Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

ArchivalResource: 1977 items and 9 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503078 View

Smoak, William Wightman, 1877-1947. William Wightman Smoak papers, 1895-1982.

Title: William Wightman Smoak papers, 1895-1982.

Constitution and bylaws, 1900, Smoaks Literary Society; constitution, ca. 1902, Business Men's League, Walterboro; papers, 1915, re establishment of Colleton County Co-operative Association; reports, July-Aug. 1922, of agent hired by Smoak to identify and assist in arrest of bootleggers in Walterboro. Correspondence and sales reports, 1926-1927, of Smoak as subdistrict sales manager, Myrtle Beach Sales Co., for Allendale, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties; and correspondence and contracts, 1924-1940s, re Chautauqua series presented in Colleton County. Political materials include bills, 1927-1930, introduced by Smoak in S.C. House of Representatives; correspondence, 1929, as chairman, County Organization Committee, S.C. Natural Resources Commission, particularly re publicizing South Carolina's high levels of nutritionally beneficial iodine; correspondence, Jan.-Feb. 1930, with officials of the Women's Christian Temperance Union re legislation for harsher penalties for violating liquor laws. Papers, 1930, re Smoak's unsuccessful campaign for governor; and correspondence, 1932, with Niels Christensen, Jr., and other officers of the Farmers and Taxpayers League, re state budget. Also includes correspondence, speeches, and pamphlets, 1932, re vote to repeal prohibition; correspondence, 1933, re organizing county temperance organizations; letter, 19 May 1941, to South Carolina Senator R[ichard] M[anning] Jefferies, re possibility of Walterboro being bombed by Germany; and speech, 20 Apr. 1944, to the S.C. House of Representatives, re inability of black citizens to participate in a democratic government. Volumes contain secretary's book, 1895, Young People's Literary Aid, a literary club of which Smoak was president; teacher's registers, 1900-1901, Walterboro Graded School, of which Smoak was principal; unbound scrapbook, 1901-1902, and 1913, with clippings re family and community; and autograph book, 1902. Notebook, 1928-1929, re parliamentary rules, William Wightman Smoak, Speaker Pro Tempore, 1929-1930, S.C. House of Representatives; and pocket diary, 1946. Other correspondents include temperance leader, the Rev. Albert D. Betts, Solomon Blatt, James F. Byrnes, J. Rion McKissick, and L. Mendel Rivers.

ArchivalResource: 1,977 items and 9 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28410632 View

League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Records, 1909-1952.

Title: Records, 1909-1952.

Correspondence, publications, clippings, and other records documenting activism and advocacy of this this non-partisan political group during the first half of the 20th century, including issues such as securing the vote for women, voters' rights, Equal Suffrage League, the Nineteenth Amendment, and other issues. [Later records held by South Carolina Political Collections, also located at USC]. Chiefly correspondence of Emma Anderson Dunovant, Eulalie Chafee Salley, Anna Howard Shaw, Harriet Powe Lynch, Josiah Morse, Niels Christensen, Benjamin R. Tillman, and others re voters' rights, Equal Suffrage League, Nineteenth Amendment, and the League of Women Voters. Volumes consist of scrapbooks, 1912-1934 (in two volumes) and volume, 1947-1952, and subscription list of members, 1926 (1 volume). Unbound scrapbooks, 1912-1934 (2 vol.), consisting of newspaper clippings re women's rights; Eighteenth Amendment and the beginning of Prohibition of alcohol sales; Nineteenth Amendment allowing women to vote; Equal Suffrage League; school of Col. [John J.] Dargan in Darlington, S.C., activities of the members, including Emma Anderson Dunovant, Eulalie Chafee Salley, Caroline Swaffield, Bertha T. Munsell, Harriet Powe Lynch, Mrs. John Gary Evans, Mrs. Julian J. Matheson, Mrs. F.M. Hicklin, Mrs. Henry Martin, Mrs. W.C. Cathcart, Mrs. A S. Hammond, Miss Wil Lou Gray, Mrs. E.S. Moorer, and others; [collection includes a bound photocopy of second scrapbook for years 1922-1934]. Scrapbook, 1947-1952, consisting of correspondence, minutes, clippings, and pamphlets chiefly re a reorganization of the Columbia Chapter of the League at the time the chapters in Charleston, Columbia, and Spartanburg, S.C., merged to form the League of Women Voters of South Carolina. Places represented include Columbia, Edgefield, Aiken, Beaufort, S.C., and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. [3 bound, 2 unbound]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58802520 View

Manning, Richard Irvine, 1859-1931. Richard Irvine Manning papers, 1896-1932.

Title: Richard Irvine Manning papers, 1896-1932.

Business and personal correspondence re politics, his campaigns for governor, Good Roads Commission, "Buy a Bale" movement and depression of the cotton market in 1915; Sumter-Barnwell Company; League to Enforce Peace; World Cotton Conference in Liverpool, 1921; American Products Export and Import Corporation; impact of the boll weevil on S.C. agriculture; and governor's race between Thomas Mcleod and Coleman L. Blease. Other topics include departure [i.e. "Great Migration"] of African Americans out of the Southeast, ca. 1923-1925; S.C. Land Settlement Commission; Commission on Inter-Racial Cooperation, 1924; U.S. Senate race, 1924 and 1930; S.C. Cooperative Marketing Association; Vorhees Normal and Industrial School; student riot at Clemson, 1924; U.S. Senator and governor's race, 1926; S.C. Memorial Commission; effort to have David R. Coker appointed Secretary of Agriculture, 1929; campaign to have S.H. Edmunds elected president of Winthrop College, 1929-1930; and S.C. Reclamation Committee, 1929. Other topics include Manning's interest in the Episcopal Church, his membership on the Clemson College Board of Trustees, his land holdings, farming operations, and investments; correspondents include Clemson College Extension Service, Christie Benet, Bernard Baruch, Niels Christensen, Walter Stackhouse, Bishop W.A. Guerry, David R. Coker, S.H. Edmunds, David Duncan Wallace, J.E. Blanton, and William Watts Ball.

ArchivalResource: 12.5 linear ft. (10 cartons)6 rolls microfilm (R629-R634 ; Correspondence out only)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43925706 View