Account books, business records, reference notes, and photographs relating primarily to Dr. Shepard's experiments to cultivate, produce, and market tea at Pinehurst, near Summerville, S.C. Includes cashbooks (1897-1905, 1907-1911) of personal and farm expenditures; Mr. [Isaac] Auld's daybook (1905-1907) for maintaining and improving Pinehurst, and for providing labor; records (1892-1898, 1905-1907, 1909) of tea cultivation and sales; location and contents of flower beds (n.d.); reference notes and publications concerning tea culture; and photographs (1898-1900) of Pinehurst tea production. Accounts for sales are with grocery stores, hotels, drug stores, and individuals throughout S.C. and other states. Clients include F.W. Wagener & Company (Charleston, S.C.), John Hurkamp Company (Charleston, S.C.), California Tea Co., Great Western Tea Company (La Salle, Ill.), Delmonico Co. (Savannah, Ga.), Hotel Supply Company (St. Augustine, Fla.), and others. Photographs include images of residence, tea factory and gardens, irrigated fields, tea pickers, day laborers, Pinehurst School students, Charles U. Shepard, Jr., T.W. McGill, Sr., T.W. McGill, Jr., James Singleton, and Miss Bessie and Miss Minnie (teachers at Pinehurst School). Also includes Shepard's account with Shepard School (a school for indigent whites) and Pinehurst School (a school for African-American children who picked tea at Pinehurst), freight rates (c.1905) for Southern Railway Company, Atlantic Coast Line and an unidentified carrier; a letter (1908) to Shepard from Adolf Kraut with order information for bags; a letter (1910) to Shepard from Ed Hayes about Hayes' essay on tea; copy of newspaper clipping of Shepard's obituary (1915). Finding aid available.
