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Marshall, Alice Kahler,. Women's rights ephemera collection, ca. 1850-1989.

Title: Women's rights ephemera collection, ca. 1850-1989.

This portion of the collection contains more than 160 business and trade advertising cards of 19th and early 20th century women working as dressmakers, hairdressers, shop and storekeepers, photographers, and other businesswomen, many embossed or with illustrations in color; trade cards, including many of Mrs. Potts Sad Irons, Lydia Pinkham, other women entrepreneurs, and advertisements of products for women. Includes 16 match book covers of women in the military, pilots, and women's clubs; 793 first day covers celebrating woman's suffrage and famous women (Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt), including New York N.O.W. collection; seven bills of Confederate money with the image of Lucy Petaway Holcombe Pickens, the first woman to appear on American currency, and Florence Nightingale on a British ten pound bill; a binder of 912 U.S. and foreign postage stamps honoring women, especially women in sports. Includes playing cards promoting suffrage; seals (suffrage, armed forces recruitment, women's organizations, philatelic societies, and sports); and buttons (political campaigns, suffrage, ERA, women flyers, and other women's issues).

ArchivalResource: 1970 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36889715 View

Biography -- Pickens, Lucy Holcombe.

Title: Biography -- Pickens, Lucy Holcombe.

ArchivalResource: 1 file folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310381611 View

Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869. F. W. Pickens papers, 1785-1929.

Title: F. W. Pickens papers, 1785-1929.

Chiefly political correspondence and business papers re the sale of cotton and plantation supplies; bound items consist of account books, a scrapbook, and a notebook . Pickens; letters to members of his family discuss plantation affairs and family and social life. Letters to his brother-in-law James Edward Calhoun, contain frequent comments on political topics, especially those affecting John C. Calhoun. Correspondence (1855- 1859) is chiefly that of Pickens' third wife, Lucy Holcombe Pickens with her family and friends. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Pierce M. Butler, Robert Wilson Gibbes, James H. Hammond, George McDuffie, Ogden Niles, James K. Polk and John P. Richardson. Letter, 6 Sept. 1837, from F.W. Pickens (Washington, D.C.) to Frances L. Greene (Lanesborough, Massachusets), concerns a letter sent to Miss Greene by Judge [Abel Parker] Upshur "on the subject of taking a situation in my family &c.... Since then (or rather before I knew he had written), I have met with a young lady here ready to go on with me, and under the very highest recommendations. Before any expectations may be created in your mind I write to inform you of the fact & regret that the Judge was put to the trouble of writing."

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777406974 View

Campbell, James Butler, 1808-1883. James Butler Campbell papers, 1826-1901.

Title: James Butler Campbell papers, 1826-1901.

Business and legal papers re Campbell's law practice, settlement of estates of John White and Robert W[ilson] Gibbes, Savannah and Charleston Railroad Company, W.E. Carrere's interest in a steamship line, and correspondence of Robert Adger, Geo[rge] W[ashington] Seabrook, Augustine T. Smythe, and William E. Earle, re tax cases and land purchases; including inventory, 20 May 1826, recording French assets in America seized by S.C. prior to 1801. Letter, 23 Mar. 1847, Charleston, S.C., to [Daniel] Webster, re his plans to visit S.C., Campbell's eargerness to play host, and offering tour of a rice plantation; 2 letters, 28 Sept. 1865 and 30 Sept. 1865, Charleston, S.C., from Henry Seabrook to U.S. Direct Tax Commission, Washington, D.C., and Edward S. Philbrick, Boston, Mass., re 1863 sale of Capt. John Fripp's property at St. Helena Island, S.C. Letter, 10 Oct. 1865, from E.S. Philbrick, re purchases of land seized by government and plans for Northern business associates to sell joint land holdings; letter, 8 Dec. 1865, Beaufort, S.C., E.G. Dudley to Henry Seabrook, re Seabrook's purchase of John Fripp's property from Captain Niles G. Parker of the U.S. Army, present state of the plantation, living conditions for slave families, hardships of the war to North and South, and settlement of the question of titles by U.S. Supreme Court. Letter, 26 June 1871, Charleston, S.C., to W.E. Wooding, re death of [Clement Laird] Vallandigham, and comments on [James Rood] Doolittle and [Thomas Andrews] Hendricks; letter, 28 June 1882, Norfolk, Va., from C.O. Boutelle, re Campbell's report on the U.S. tax law in S.C., authorities' refusal to accept tax payments in 1865, and Rev. A[mory] D[wight] Mayo's educational mission to Charleston, S.C. Letter, 1 Feb. 1882, Washington, D.C., from Mrs. R.H.W. Seabrook to J.B. Campbell, re Sen. Wade Hampton, and requesting aid in regaining her position in Agriculture Department; letter, 3 June 1884, New York, N.Y., from M[argaret] J[ane] M[ussey] Sweat, requesting advice on finances of [Lucy H.] Pickens and mortgage on Edgewood Plantation; letter, 8 Dec. 1893, Charleston, S.C., [Cecil Campbell Higgins] to Richard Olney, re policies of Gov. [B.R.] Tillman, and connection of William E. Earle with Higgins' father.

ArchivalResource: 98 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41963028 View

Ladies Memorial Association (Edgefield County, S.C.). To the patriotic women of Edgefield County, [S.C.] [ca. 1890?] : [broadside].

Title: To the patriotic women of Edgefield County, [S.C.] [ca. 1890?] : [broadside].

Broadside publicizing organization of the association and soliciting financial assistance in building a monument to "our Confederate heroes," signed by president, L[ucy] H[olcombe] Pickens (1832-1899).

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31259313 View

Pickens and Dugas family papers, 1800-1903 [manuscript].

Title: Pickens and Dugas family papers, 1800-1903 [manuscript].

Deeds, accounts, and other business papers, 1800-1844, of Colonel Andrew Pickens, Jr., lawyer and planter of Columbia, S.C.; lettercopy book, 1843-1845, and scattered business papers of Lewis F. E. Dugas, cotton broker at Augusta, Ga., and Apalachicola, Fla.; scattered business papers and personal correspondence of the family of Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869), mainly in South Carolina and while he was minister to Russia, 1858-1860, consisting mostly of letters between women of the family; and personal papers and correspondence of his wife, Lucy Holcombe Pickens. Also included are letters of Lucy Pickens concerning the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union.

ArchivalResource: 160 items (0.5 linear ft).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34671590 View

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. Circular letter, 1883 Nov. 1.

Title: Circular letter, 1883 Nov. 1.

Sent by L[ucy] H[olcomb] Pickens, "vice-Regent for South Carolina," Edgewood, S.C., making an appeal for funds to restore and furnish the "Carolina Room in the mansion of Washington, at Mt. Vernon."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31236602 View