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Blatt, Solomon, 1896-1986. Solomon Blatt papers, 1918-1986; (bulk, 1933-1986).

Title: Solomon Blatt papers, 1918-1986; (bulk, 1933-1986).

Consisting chiefly of public papers, primarily correspondence, relating to Blatt's role as a member of the South Carolina House from Barnwell County, 1933-1936, and Speaker, 1935-1946 and 1951-1971. Contains constitutent mail, requests for government positions, assistance in gaining college acceptance; etc. Legal papers (consisting of Sub-series: General; Client Files, 1961-1986; and Topical Files) relates to Blatt's legal practice in the firm of Blatt and Fales. Topical files relate to juror character inquiries, the dissolution of the firm of Blatt and Fales, founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1984; Voorhees College, 1976-1986; and an asbestos suit involving the schools of Greenville and Spartanburg, c.1981-1986. Other correspondents include many members of the S.C. General Assembly, other state officials and members of S.C.'s delegation to Congress, including J.K. Breedin, Edgar Brown, Richard M. Jefferies, Bruce Littlejohn, Burnet Maybank, Julius B. Ness, Thomas H. Pope, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Archibald Rutledge. Personal files include family correspondence, financial records, and papers of wife Ethel. Scrapbooks, 1936-1979, consisting of 30 bound volumes, include an undated scrapbook, My University Years, re student life at USC prior to Blatt's graduation in 1917. Also includes photographs; clippings; speeches, 1939-1984; together with the papers of Federal Judge Solomon Blatt, Jr., principally outgoing letters, 1962-1967.

ArchivalResource: 30 v.

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Brown, Edgar A. (Edgar Allan), 1888-1975. Edgar Brown papers. 1911-1975 : 1950-1972.

Title: Edgar Brown papers. 1911-1975 : 1950-1972.

The papers document much of Brown's political career. He served at the national level as executive committeeman and as a delegate to conventions, of the Democratic Party and as a long time representative on the Council of State Governments. Among his major interests were education, educational television, mental health, industrial, highways and ports development, and state government reorganization. Many of the papers document his service to his constituents and Barnwell county. As a Life trustee of Clemson University, there is a variety of material related to the University's operations. Scrapbooks, 1911-1972, and boxes of newspaper clippings, 1920-1975 provide a good overview of Brown's life. Photographs include members of the various legislative committees, personal friends, and family members.

ArchivalResource: 147 cubic ft. 117 cubic ft. papers, 31 scrapbooks, 1920-1975, 4.5 cubic ft. photographs 115" and 7" tape recordings, 3 cassette recordings, 4 3/4" videotapes, 2 reels 15 mm. television film.

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Jefferies, Richard M. (Richard Manning), 1888-1964. Papers, 1942-1952 ; (bulk 1942-1943).

Title: Papers, 1942-1952 ; (bulk 1942-1943).

Correspondence, press releases, legislation, transcripts of radio broadcasts, rosters, and other papers, relating chiefly to Jefferies's term as governor. Subjects include agriculture, gas rationing, and interstate transportation of agricultural laborers; education, chiefly concerning the release of two professors by Winthrop College and the subsequent investigation by American Association of University Professors and American Association of University Women; proposed revisions to the state constitution; military affairs, including prostitution and the South Carolina Defense Force, especially during World War II; Probation and Parole Board; race relations, including reports from the local police on the sale of firearms and ammunition to blacks and the possible formation of Eleanor [Roosevelt] societies; and the Unemployment Compensation Commission.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 ft.

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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.

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Jefferies family. Jefferies family papers, 1771-1936.

Title: Jefferies family papers, 1771-1936.

Chiefly papers of Capt. John R. Jefferies re real estate, Civil War, genealogical information, and business papers of Jefferies' mill; including letters, Feb.-14 May 1861, re Jefferies service in Maxcy Gregg's regiment; commission as 2nd Lieutenant, 22 Aug. 1861, 15th Regiment of S.C. Volunteers signed by Gov. F.W. Pickens; letter, 25 Aug. 1862, Jefferson, [West] Va., re leave of absence for gunshot wound; and 4 volumes, 1937-1938, "Jefferies' War Record," 1861-1865. Plantation account book, 1855, 1861-1869, Union District, S.C., listing accounts with overseers and African-Americans; letter, 21 Mar. 1865, Charlotte, N.C., from J.R. Jefferies [to John Jefferies, Sr.], re a hearing before medical board; volume, 1863, listing officers and men in Jeffries' company with remarks on service and deaths; letter, 15 July 1865, from M.A. Yates to James Jefferies, re offer of food, occupation by Union troops, and impact of Civil War. Eighteen items, 1861-1908, and undated, including muster roles of S.C. Volunteers, 15th regiment, Co. E; election certificate, 21 Nov. 1890, and minute book, 8 Mar. 1893, re Jefferies' activity with the S.C. Farmers' Alliance; letters of condolence, 1894, from family, friends, and politicians re death of J.R. Jefferies; business records and correspondence for Jeffries' mill including bonds, promissory notes, bills for sale of lumber, supplies for ginning cotton, and labor contracts. Also including land papers, 22 Sept. 1774 and 26 Aug. 1790, of Nathaniel Jefferies; land grant, 11 Dec. 1849, for 6543 acres of land in Union District, S.C., issued by Gov. Whitemarsh Seabrook to John Jefferies, Sr.; stock certificate, 16 May 1853, Spartanburg and Union Rail-Road Company, of James Jefferies, Sr. for purchase of 40 shares. Four volumes, 1939-1942, consisting of "'Jefferies Pioneers' and Their Descendants of Union and Cherokee Counties;" "An Authentic Review of the Life and Services of Captain John R. Jefferies," "A Collection of Letters' of Captain John R. Jefferies;" "Reminiscences of the Revolutionary War," 10 Dec. 1847, re experiences as a soldier serving in S.C., Ga., and Va., and the plundering of his father's home by Tories.

ArchivalResource: 567 items and 11 v.

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Quattlebaum, Paul, 1886-1964. Paul Quattlebaum senate papers, 1936-1945.

Title: Paul Quattlebaum senate papers, 1936-1945.

This series consists primarily of correspondence from constituents, Horry County public officials, state government personnel, and other senators. Notable correspondents include Solomon Blatt, Edgar A. Brown, James F. Byrnes, J. Emile Harley, Richard M. Jefferies, Olin D. Johnston, John L. McMillan, Burnet R. Maybank, Cotesworth P. Means, Ellison D. Smith, J. Strom Thurmond, George Bell Timmerman and Ransome J. Williams.

ArchivalResource: 6 cubic ft. 12 boxes.

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Quattlebaum, Paul, 1886-1964. Paul Quattlebaum personal papers, 1907-1964, (bulk 1934-1963).

Title: Paul Quattlebaum personal papers, 1907-1964, (bulk 1934-1963).

The series contains private letters from Quattlebaum's senatorial years (1935-1944) and documents fully his life from 1945 to 1964. Included in this material are Quattlebaum's activities as civic club officer, trustee of Queen's College, Charlotte, N.C., and Ruling Elder of Kingston Presbyterian Church in Conway, S.C. Although he retired from public life in 1945, Quattlebaum retained an avid interest in state and national politics, and kept up a lively correspondence with his former colleagues. He also communicated regularly with various government officials, genealogists, family members, and myriad acquaintances. Prominent correspondents include Edgar A. Brown, James F. Byrnes, Olin D. Johnston, J.C. Littlejohn, Kenneth Lynch, John C. McMillan, Burnet R. Maybank, Robert F. Poole, Frank A. Thompson, J. Strom Thurmond, Stanley F. Morse (President of the Grass Roots League, Inc.). Letters from Littlejohn and Poole are located in the Clemson College folders, and the Lynch correspondence is filed under Medical College of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 cubic ft. 9 boxes.

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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

United States. Public Works Administration. Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project, 1934-1943.

Title: Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project, 1934-1943.

The material on the reel is from the files of the Public Works Administration (PWA) pertaining to the Santee-Cooper Power Project. The reel includes a copy of Act 887 which established the South Carolina Public Service Authority for the Project in 1934 and technical charts which contain supporting data pertaining to the construction of the Project. A portion of the reel is devoted to R.M. Jefferies, Sr., and W.J. McLeod, Jr.'s defense of their costs while serving as General Counsel to the Authority.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel microfilm 16 mm.

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Jefferies, Richard M. (Richard Manning), 1888-1964. Richard M. Jefferies papers, 1942-1964 ; (bulk 1942-1943).

Title: Richard M. Jefferies papers, 1942-1964 ; (bulk 1942-1943).

Papers arranged as follows: General Correspondence (folders 1-16); Agriculture (folders 17-28); Education (folders 29-32); Legislation (folders 33-39); Military Affairs (folders 40-47); Probation and Parole Board (folders: 48-49); Race Relations (Folders 50-52); Unemployment Compensation Commission (folders 53-54). Correspondence, press releases, legislation, transcripts of radio broadcasts, rosters, and other papers, relating chiefly to Jefferies' term as governor. Subjects include agriculture; gas rationing; and interstate transportation of agricultural laborers; education, chiefly concerning the release of two professors by Winthrop College and the subsequent investigation by American Association of University Professors and American Association of University Women; proposed revisions to the state constitution; military affairs, including prostitution and the South Carolina Defense Force, especially during World War II; Probation and Parole Board; race relations, including reports from the local police on the sale of firearms and ammunition to African Americans and the possible formation of Eleanor [Roosevelt] societies; the Unemployment Compensation Commission; and the Santee-Cooper project. Also includes scrapbook, 1942-1943, containing pictures, clippings, and articles re gubernatorial term (microfilm R 221); bound volume, 30 and 31 May 1964, souvenir album including program of graduating exercises at Clemson College, "Citation. for Honorary Degree" awarded posthumously, pictures and news stories; and bound volume, July 1964, the South Carolina Magazine, with articles and pictures on Jefferies' public service.

ArchivalResource: 1 roll microfilm.

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Martin, Dexter C., 1897-1982. Dexter C. Martin papers, 1919-1982.

Title: Dexter C. Martin papers, 1919-1982.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers documenting Martin's career as director of South Carolina Aeornautics Commission, promoter of the development (1941-1947) of Lexington County Airport (later Columbia Metropolitan Airport), and his tenure as member (1938-1972) and president (1940-1945) of the National Association of State Aviation Officers. Contains items of World War II era documenting Martin's promotion of the Civil Air Patrol (C.A.P.) and Civilian Pilot Training (C.P.T.) programs, as well as his interest in legislation re state versus federal control and the implementation of gasoline taxes; 2 documents, 1924, Martin's aviator's certificate and pilot's license, both signed by Orville Wright; and seven oversize scrapbooks, 1927-1964, containing photos and newspaper articles re Martin's early flying career and the development of aviation facilities in South Carolina. Oversize scrapbook Vol. I (1927-1936), re early pilots, wingwalkers, and other entertainers of early decades of aviation, the Mabel Cody Flying Circus, women pilots, including Margie Hobbs who preformed under the name "Ethel Dare," and others; Vol. II (1934-1964); Vol. III (1943-1946); and Vol. IV (1935-1947), re NASAO, Delta Airlines, and the "Breakfast Club" (Camden, S.C.); Oversize scrapbook Vol. V (1937-1947), re development of airport facilities in upstate S.C. Counties of Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg; Vol. VI (1937-1947), re development of Owens Field in Columbia / Richland County and the airport in Lexington County, S.C.; Vol. VII (1935-1949), re development of airports in several dozen other S.C. localities. Two volumes, 1919-1970 (letter size), consisting of clippings, photographs, and letters re the aviation career of pioneer stunt flyer Ethel Dare (Margaret Spears Hobbs); and 2 volumes (letter size, available onsite) consisting of Martin's index to his scrapbook volumes. Other correspondents include Solomon Blatt, Edgar A. Brown (1888-1975), South Carolina governors R.M. Jefferies (b. 1889), Olin D. Johnston (1896-1965), Burnet R. Maybank (1899-1954) and Ransome J. Williams, and various persons associated with Delta Air Lines and federal and state aeronautical agencies.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft. (5 cartons)11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412524 View