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Kolnitz, George F. von, Mrs. Francis Simmons Holmes, first curator of the museum of the College of Charleston / Mrs. Geo. F. VonKolnitz.

Title: Francis Simmons Holmes, first curator of the museum of the College of Charleston / Mrs. Geo. F. VonKolnitz.

A photocopy of a biographical sketch of Francis Simmons Holmes written by his daughter Mrs. George F. Von Kolnitz in January 1907. Francis S. Holmes, a native of Charleston, became an invertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Charleston Museum.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 leaves) ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48644303 View

Manigault, Gabriel Edward, 1833-1899. The black whale captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880, 1885.

Title: The black whale captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880, 1885.

Holograph manuscript with annotations and corrections written by Gabriel Manigault for publication in the Proceedings of the Elliott Society. In the manuscript Manigault notes that an earlier article, published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, was based on his letter to J.B. Holder. The manuscript describes the capture of a Right whale in Charleston harbor in January 1880, a description of the whale, the steps taken to preserve the specimen for exhibit at the College of Charleston Museum, and descriptions taken from published sources describing similar animals that had been sighted along the American coast and elsewhere beginning in the early 18th century.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31740999 View

Norris, John Thompson, 1825-1877. John Thompson Norris papers, 1854-1881.

Title: John Thompson Norris papers, 1854-1881.

Manuscript and printed items, including autograph album (1854-1865, 1878 and 1881), of Elizabeth Halfacre, of Newberry, S.C.; manuscript volume, undated, of Dr. John Thompson Norris, containing medicinal recipes and treatments; 19th-century scrapbook containing "Subjects of the Serial on N[atural] History Museum of the College of Charleston" and other clippings, chiefly of religious interest. Letter, 9 July 1871, from Flora Keith [Overman], Oak Grove, Anderson County, S.C., re the illness of her grandmother; obituaries of Elizabeth Halfacre Norris; photograph of First Lieutenant W.C. Norris, Orr's Regiment of Rifles, S.C. Volunteers; copy photographs of John T. Norris and Elizabeth Halfacre Norris taken by W.H. Wiseman, Newberry, S.C. Also including printed advertising circulars for "Indestructible labels for fruit trees, flowering shurbs, roses, etc." listing dozens of varieties of peaches, cherries, roses, etc. from B.K. Bliss of Springfield, Mass., and for "universal pain alleviator" illustrated with a woman in an alchemist's lab; and Dr. O. Phelps Brown's Shakespearian Annual Almanac, 1877 edition which featured quotes and illustrations from the Tempest; also includes paper doll drawn and colored to resemble a porcelain "China doll" of the era.

ArchivalResource: 1 printed almanac.1 paper doll ; 9 x 5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53337948 View

Easterby, J. H. (James Harold), 1898-1960. Research notes on education in Charleston, 1767-1948.

Title: Research notes on education in Charleston, 1767-1948.

The collection consists of typescripts from the Charleston newspapers noting anything related to education. The information included is primarily about all aspects of the College of Charleston, but is often about private grammar schools and is sometimes about local scientific work. Meetings of scientific and literary organizations were regularly noted particularly those of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, whose museum became the basis for the College of Charleston Museum. Subsequent museum acquisitions were often noted. There are references to colleges elsewhere, most often to South Carolina College (the University of South Carolina), but also to the colleges in northern states. Overall, the notes provide substantial information about the intellectual life in Charleston from 1767-1880. The notes are divided into two series: (1) "Index and Synopsis" are primarily of citations to every item noted as potentially relevant and (2) "Selected Articles" are full transcripts of the articles dating from 1798-1858 that Easterby selected as most likely to be useful for the history of the College of Charleston. The collection also includes an index to "The College of Charleston Magazine" from 1898-1938, "A Selected Bibliography of Printed Materials Relating to the History of South Carolina" (1936), and "The Significance of South Carolina History" (1948).

ArchivalResource: .6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51815220 View