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Parker, Ethelyn Murray, 1895-1995. Ethelyn Murray Parker papers, ca. 1899-1992 (bulk 1920-1980).

Title: Ethelyn Murray Parker papers, ca. 1899-1992 (bulk 1920-1980).

The Ethelyn Murray Parker collection consists of her early writings, correspondence, photocopied newspaper clippings from The Lighthouse and Informer and The Charleston Chronicle, with booklets, ephemera, awards and plaques, the majority of items consisting of photographs throughout various series. The correspondence series contains a letter from Josephine Pinckney (1947), letters (1949-1964) from The Chicago Defender and Afro-American Newspapers and The Pittsburgh Courier; and greeting cards and postcards (1927-1960, nd) from relatives and friends. The school related series contains Parker's unbound autograph book (1925) from Tuskegee Institute, with an inscription from principal Robert R. Morton; and numerous photographs of Parker, the campus and class mates. Also included are invitations, booklets and photographs (c.1920-1931) from Voorhees Institute, Denmark, S.C.; group photographs (1955) of faculty from Sanders-Clyde Elementary, Charleston; and one with Septima Clark at the "South Carolina Congress of Parents and Teachers/ PTA Workshop." The National Council of Negro Women, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and S.C. Federation of Colored Women's Clubs series contain organizational materials, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, clippings, programs and photographs of Parker and notable S.C. women such as Mamie Garvin Fields, Albertha Murray, Sarah Dart Butler and others at various organizational meetings (1953-1968). With some data from The National Council of Negro Women re the Interracial Conference of Women (1956). The S.C. Federation of Women's Clubs materials contain financial reports, magazine articles, programs, and photographs (1940, 1957, 1963) re the Wilkinson Home for Girls; conference programs and photographs (1949, 1958-1966) from the Coastal District, and Elite Art and Social Club members. Central Baptist Church files (1951, 1962-64, 1972) include photographs, minutes and programs (1960, 63, 65-66) of the Women's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of S.C. With many images (c. 1920-1960s) of Parker, her husband, relatives and friends, mostly unidentified. A photograph (c. 1899) of an African American soldiers (possibly Troop H, 9th Calvary) deployed for the Philippine Insurrection is included as well, along with photographs of Parker at the Highlander Center (c. 1950s), a photograph of Ella Baker, and group picture featuring Septima Clark and Guy Carawan. Photos (1954) taken by Boags Modern Arts Photo Studio (1954) are of the Charleston Chapter of the NAACP honoring Judge Julius Waites Waring; present are NAACP counsel Robert L. Carter, Elizabeth Waring, Septima Clark and Parker. With other images of Charleston's African American policemen, playing pool (1952), photos (1956) by Coards Studio of the opening of F. D.Ward Wilson Drug Store, and a variety of photos (c. 1920-1960) featuring many significant buildings in Charleston, and statues at Brookgreen Gardens. With some miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166409098 View

Prentiss Taylor papers

Title: Prentiss Taylor papers

The collection measures 20.8 linear feet, dates from 1885 to 1991 (bulk dates 1908-1986) and documents the career of Harlem Renaissance lithographer, teacher, and painter Prentiss Taylor. The collection consists primarily of subject/correspondence files (circa 16 ft.), reflecting Prentiss' career as a lithographer and painter, his association with figures prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, notably Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes, his activities as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers and other art organizations, his work in art therapy treating mental illness, and his teaching position at American University. The subject files contain mostly correspondence, but many include photographs and printed material. Also included are biographical, financial, legal and printed material; several hundred photographs; notes and writings; sketchbooks, drawings and a few prints by Taylor; and scrapbooks dating from 1885-1956.The Langston Hughes files contain photocopies of letters from Hughes, greeting cards, ten original photographs of Hughes, and an autographed card printed with Hughes' poem, <emph render="italic">The Negro Speaks of Rivers</emph>. In addition, there is a contract between Hughes and Taylor, witnessed by Carl Van Vechten, forming the Golden Stair Press, through which many of Hughes' poems were printed with illustrations by Taylor. A rare edition of their first publication, <emph render="italic">The Negro Mother</emph>, is found here. Also found in this file is a 1932 final copy of <emph render="italic">Scottsboro Limited</emph>, another collaborative effort between Taylor and Hughes that focused on a case where nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women. The collection contains extensive correspondence about Taylor's lithograph of the same title and the printing of the publication. Other rare Harlem Renaissance publications found within Taylor's papers include <emph render="italic">Golden Stair Broadsides</emph>, <emph render="italic">Opportunity Journal of Negro Life</emph>, <emph render="italic">The Rebel Poet</emph>, and <emph render="italic">Eight Who Lie in the Death House</emph>, several of which were also illustrated by Taylor.Prentiss Taylor's long association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance stemmed from his early friendship with Carl Van Vechten. Taylor's papers contain correspondence with Van Vechten, autographed copies of Van Vechten's booklets, and numerous photographs of notable Harlem Renaissance figures, many taken by Van Vechten, including Zora Neale Hurston, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Paul Robeson, and many others. Also found are period photographs of Charleston, South Carolina and Harlem street scenes.95 letters from Rachel Field, 75 letters from Langston Hughes, 3 letters from Armin Landeck, 46 letters from Josephine Pinckney, 1 letter from Gertrude Stein, 7 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1 postcard from Mark Van Doren, and 25 letters from Carl Van Vechten are photocopies. Originals of the Hughes and Toklas letters are located at the Yale University Library. Location of the remaining original letters are unknown.The Prentiss Taylor papers offer researchers insight into the rich cultural documentation of the Harlem Renaissance and the development of twentieth-century printmaking as an American fine art.

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Bolton, Robert Harrison. Fugitive verse and romantic prose sketches, [manuscript], 20th century.

Title: Fugitive verse and romantic prose sketches, [manuscript], 20th century.

Mostly American; one item (MSS 681) includes 15 poems and 5 prose works by Annie Duncan Cox (typescript); some handwritten, some typescript.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647895168 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1904-1962.

Title: Papers of James Southall Wilson [manuscript], 1904-1962.

The collection contains letters to Wilson from American literary figures and educators including Hervey Allen; Emily Tapscott (Clark) Balch; James Branch Cabell; John Fox; Ellen Glasgow; DuBose Heyward; Sinclair Lewis; Rosewell Page; Thomas Nelson Page; Thomas Walker Page; Josephine Pinckney; Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy; Irita (Bradford) Van Doren; and John Hall Wheelock. In additon there is correspondence, 1920-1921, to Wilson and John Calvin Metcalf regarding "The enchanted years"; including letters from James Lane Allen, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Ellen Glasgow, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Kreymborg, Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Lizette Woodworth Reese, George Santayana, Siegfried Sassoon and J.H. Wheelock.

ArchivalResource: 110 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948057 View

Wilson, James Southall, 1880-1963. Correspondence relating to the Southern Writers Convention sponsored by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" at the University of Virginia, October 23-24, 1931 [manuscript], 1931-1932.

Title: Correspondence relating to the Southern Writers Convention sponsored by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" at the University of Virginia, October 23-24, 1931 [manuscript], 1931-1932.

The collection consists of Wilson's correspondence with authors he invited to the convention, particularly Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Katharine Anthony, John Peale Bishop, James Boyd, Roark Bradford, Herschel Brickell, Maxwell Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Henry Seidel Canby, Willa Cather, Maristan Chapman, Emily Clark, Irvin S. Cobb, Donald Davidson, William Edward Dodd, William Faulkner, John Gould Fletcher, Ellen Glasgow, Isa Glenn, Paul Green, Sara Haardt, Archibald Henderson, DuBose Heyward, Gerald W. Johnson, Mary Johnston, H.L. Mencken, Margaret Prescott Montague, Julia Mood Peterkin, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Josephine Pinckney, Burton Rascoe, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Cale Young Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice, Amelie Rives, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Herbert Ravenal Sass, Mrs. Laurence Stallings, T.S. Stribling, Allen Tate, Irita Van Doren, Thomas Wolfe, and Stark Young.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806920 View

Ravenel, Beatrice Witte, 1870-1956. Beatrice Witte Ravenel papers, 1892-1948 [manuscript].

Title: Beatrice Witte Ravenel papers, 1892-1948 [manuscript].

The bulk of this material comprises writings by Ravenel, and consists of manuscripts and typed drafts, published stories and poems, clippings, reviews, and magazine copies. Her correspondence with fellow authors, poets, and publishers is especially full for the 1920s, and includes letters (chiefly in typescript) of Amy Lowell, Hervey Allen, Josephine Pinckney, Norman Hapgood, Edwin Markham, and Dubose Heyward. Volumes include two scrapbooks of letters and clippings, 1919-1927; a book of poems, 1890-1917; a sketchbook of her charcoals and water colors; and one unpublished chapter from a biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1723-1793) by Harriott Horry Ravenel, Beatrice Witte Ravenel's mother-in-law.

ArchivalResource: 1,100 items (5.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25290688 View

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930

Title: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1897-1930

Papers of the African-American poet, literary critic, and editor William Stanley Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (10.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01469/catalog View

Prentiss Taylor papers

Title: Prentiss Taylor papers

The collection measures 20.8 linear feet, dates from 1885 to 1991 (bulk dates 1908-1986) and documents the career of Harlem Renaissance lithographer, teacher, and painter Prentiss Taylor. The collection consists primarily of subject/correspondence files (circa 16 ft.), reflecting Prentiss' career as a lithographer and painter, his association with figures prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, notably Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes, his activities as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers and other art organizations, his work in art therapy treating mental illness, and his teaching position at American University. The subject files contain mostly correspondence, but many include photographs and printed material. Also included are biographical, financial, legal and printed material; several hundred photographs; notes and writings; sketchbooks, drawings and a few prints by Taylor; and scrapbooks dating from 1885-1956.The Langston Hughes files contain photocopies of letters from Hughes, greeting cards, ten original photographs of Hughes, and an autographed card printed with Hughes' poem, <emph render="italic">The Negro Speaks of Rivers</emph>. In addition, there is a contract between Hughes and Taylor, witnessed by Carl Van Vechten, forming the Golden Stair Press, through which many of Hughes' poems were printed with illustrations by Taylor. A rare edition of their first publication, <emph render="italic">The Negro Mother</emph>, is found here. Also found in this file is a 1932 final copy of <emph render="italic">Scottsboro Limited</emph>, another collaborative effort between Taylor and Hughes that focused on a case where nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women. The collection contains extensive correspondence about Taylor's lithograph of the same title and the printing of the publication. Other rare Harlem Renaissance publications found within Taylor's papers include <emph render="italic">Golden Stair Broadsides</emph>, <emph render="italic">Opportunity Journal of Negro Life</emph>, <emph render="italic">The Rebel Poet</emph>, and <emph render="italic">Eight Who Lie in the Death House</emph>, several of which were also illustrated by Taylor.Prentiss Taylor's long association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance stemmed from his early friendship with Carl Van Vechten. Taylor's papers contain correspondence with Van Vechten, autographed copies of Van Vechten's booklets, and numerous photographs of notable Harlem Renaissance figures, many taken by Van Vechten, including Zora Neale Hurston, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Paul Robeson, and many others. Also found are period photographs of Charleston, South Carolina and Harlem street scenes.95 letters from Rachel Field, 75 letters from Langston Hughes, 3 letters from Armin Landeck, 46 letters from Josephine Pinckney, 1 letter from Gertrude Stein, 7 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1 postcard from Mark Van Doren, and 25 letters from Carl Van Vechten are photocopies. Originals of the Hughes and Toklas letters are located at the Yale University Library. Location of the remaining original letters are unknown.The Prentiss Taylor papers offer researchers insight into the rich cultural documentation of the Harlem Renaissance and the development of twentieth-century printmaking as an American fine art.

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National Council of Jewish Women. Charleston Section. Scrapbooks, 1907-1970, 1989-1996.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1907-1970, 1989-1996.

Photographs, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, negatives, press releases, certificates, and typescripts are included in four scrapbooks. Collection consists of four scrapbooks (1906-1996) documenting the history, programs, special projects and general activities of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Charleston Section. Scrapbooks contain photographs (b/w) of charter members, original officers and succeeding presidents; overview histories (typescripts) of organization; correspondence among council and those it assisted; annual reports; award certificates; memorials to deceased members; speeches honoring Charleston women inducted into the Federation of Woman's Clubs Hall of Fame. Also includes programs from anniversary banquets, annual meetings, etc; meeting notices and event invitations; newspaper clippings re. members and council projects; photographs (color) of installation luncheons and meetings (1980s-1990s) at Charleston area homes (negatives exist for most color photographs). Scrapbook #2 devoted to Council's weekly clinic on care and control of diabetes (started in 1950) at Medical College Hospital; contains clippings, public service announcements and press releases re. tag day fundraisers; photographs of Council members working at clinic; drafts of speeches and editorials re. work at clinic. Scrapbook #3 contains material related to seminar, "You, your child and tomorrow," a NCJW workshop (1965) devoted to education issues in Charleston.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49231651 View

Pinckney, Josephine, 1895-1957. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1915 and 1963].

Title: Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1915 and 1963].

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182939837 View

Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Title: Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927(inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American poet, Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00100/catalog View

Kibler, James E. James E. Kibler papers, 1954-1999.

Title: James E. Kibler papers, 1954-1999.

Consisting chiefly of drafts, offprints, and other copies of James E. Kibler's published and unpublished critical, biographical, and bibliographical writings, chiefly concerning William Elliott, William Faulkner, Shelby Foote, James Matthewes Legare, Orlando Benedict Mayer, Josephine Pinckney, and William Gilmore Simms. Includes corrected typescripts of Kibler's editions of John Punterick, a novel by O.B. Mayer; Fireside Tales: Stories of the Old Dutch Fork; and The Poetry of William Gilmore Simms: An Introduction and Bibliography. Also including reviews of Kibler's 1998 book Our Fathers' Fields: A Southern Story, written about the Hardy family in Newberry County, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 11.25 linear ft. (9 cartons) of unprocessed additions.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40846092 View

Bennett, John, 1865-1956. John Bennett papers, 1875-1967.

Title: John Bennett papers, 1875-1967.

Papers consist of correspondence, research notes, writings, artwork, photographs, and other items. Included are the papers of Susan S. Bennett, John H. Bennett, and the Smythe family. Correspondence includes family letters as well as Bennett's correspondence with organizations, publishers, friends, other writers and artists including DuBose Heyward, Josephine Pinckney, and Hervey Allen. Topics include family matters, Charleston social life, historical research, Bennett's writings and art, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, Gullah, Black music and folklore, the Regulators, the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, and Bennett's Red Cross work during World War I. Writings include manuscripts and manuscript fragments of novels, stories, and articles (many unpublished); juvenalia; copies of Bennett's poems; and drafts, galley proofs, and adaptations of Bennett's published fiction; with related correspondence, illustrations, clippings, and other items. Photographs (ca. 1875-1956) are of John Bennett and Bennett family members, scenes in Chillicothe (Ohio), North Carolina, and elsewhere, Woodburn Plantation (S.C.), family dwellings, black fishermen and farm workers (ca. 1900), and other subjects. Also included are negatives, including glass negatives of family portraits and houses and buildings in Charleston (S.C.), and silhouette cutouts on glass. Original artwork includes designs for silhouettes, ornamental lettering, mounted silhouettes, and pencil drawings of Egyptian motifs, humorous characters, and other subjects, with related correspondence. There are also reproductions of Bennett's silhouettes and illustrations, and clippings of cartoons and other material. Topics of research notes include black folklore, music, and superstitions, Gullah, slavery in South Carolina, the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, and the history of Charleston (S.C.), with related correspondence and clippings. Other items include scrapbooks of clippings of articles, verse, and drawings by Bennett, reviews and advertisements of his books, and memorabilia; biographical material on Bennett; genealogical material on the Bennett family; and musical transcriptions of black spirituals and street cries and original music by Bennett.

ArchivalResource: 29 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36794355 View

Cox, H. Morris (Headley Morris), 1916-. Research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930.

Title: Research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930.

This collection consists of 5x8 index cards which were used for research in: Cox, Headley Morris, Jr. Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930, Thesis (Ph.d.), University of Pennsylvania, 1958. The information included is about the literary South, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Renaissance, and the poems of W. Herbey Allen and DuBose Heyward. Other writers who contributed to the Charleston Renaissance are noted, along with a list of prizewinners in the contests sponsored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and a list of the volumes of poetry published by Charleston poets.

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75185029 View

Deas, Alston, 1893-1985. Alston Deas papers, 1931-1977.

Title: Alston Deas papers, 1931-1977.

Papers include correspondence and miscellaneous items pertaining to Alston Deas. Correspondence mainly consists of letters to Alston Deas concerning his political interests, his membership in various organizations, and historic preservation. Letters (1956-1960) from Japanese officials concern Deas' participation in a fund-raising campaign for the restoration of the Nagoya Castle (Nagoya, Japan). Two letters (1951) from U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pertain to a peace treaty between the United States and Japan. Other correspondents include Harold A. Mouzon (Secretary of the Carolina Art Association), S.C. Governor Donald Russell, Philip G. Porcher (Secretary of the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Churches in the Diocese of South Carolina), and Josephine Pinckney (a founder of the Poetry Society of South Carolina). Miscellaneous items include a permit to Captain Alston Deas granting permission to pass over trails in Hawaii (1934), a photocopy of the By-Laws of the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Churches in the Diocese of South Carolina (ca. 1971) and a program (1974) for a "Public Forum for City of Charleston's Historic Preservation Plan Review."

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141048 View