Woodside family papers, 1857-1989.

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Woodside family. Woodside family papers, 1857-1989.

Woodside family papers, 1857-1989.

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Letters, newspaper clippings, programs, invitations, speeches, photographs, etc. re the Woodside families of Greenville, S.C., and Baton Rouge, La., but focused chiefly upon Greenville business and cultural leader Robert Israel Woodside and his wife, Lula Baynard Woodside. Topics addressed include banking career of R.I. Woodside and the erection of the 17-story Woodside Building, 1920-1923, identified as Greenville's first skyscraper and dubbed the "Sentinel of the Carolinas"; and Woodside's European tour as a member of the American Commission of the Southern Commercial Congress, 1913, which provided four months of travel abroad to investigate European agricultural cooperation. Correspondence includes letters, 1898-1899, from C. Wakamatsu, a Japanese student whom he presumably met while attending Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; essays written for the Club of Thirty-Nine, Greenville, include, "Modern Ocean Travel," "French Efforts toward Building the Panama Canal," "The Problem of Public Relief," and "Alaska." Also includes material re Lula Woodside's leading role in musical circles in Greenville, as a performing instrumentalist and as a founder of both the Music Club of Greenville and the South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs; examples of her original compositions and a 78 rpm record of her performing her own compositions for the harp. Items from Woodside and Ricketts families, ca. 19th and early-20th century, include letters, 1859, written by J.L. Woodside to his wife, E.P. Woodside, Greenville District, S.C., while on an expedition into Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas to find suitable farmlands for relocation, as well as letters from Lula Woodside's parents, Edward Lacey Woodside and Mary Louisa Ricketts Woodside.

0.33 linear ft. (1 document box)

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