Mabel Pollitzer papers, 1871-ca. 1975.

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Mabel Pollitzer papers, 1871-ca. 1975.

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Papers of Mabel L. Pollitzer and Carrie T. Pollitzer consist of school notes and records, writings, speeches, travel diaries, and other items. Papers of Mabel L. Pollitzer include poems and short stories (with some related letters); a copy of her will; three small watercolor landscape paintings; clippings (1938) concerning the banning of fireworks in Charleston (S.C.); minutes (1913-1917) of the City Betterment Committee of the Civic Club; correspondence, newsletters, and other printed material concerning the Equal Rights Amendment in South Carolina, the National Organization for Women, and other topics; a disbound scrapbook (ca. 1894-ca. 1912) containing clippings, programs, and other theater and concert memorabilia; programs (1912-1922) for musical events in Charleston (S.C.); penmanship exercise notebooks (1894-1895); sketchbooks (1896-1897) containing pencil drawings of plants and other subjects; school notes on history, zoology, botany, English, literature, and other subjects; and correspondence, speeches, tributes, and other material about William Knox Tate, principal of Memminger High School. Papers of Carrie T. Pollitzer include speeches on citizenship, storytelling, and other topics; articles on preschool children, co-education at the College of Charleston, and the Free Kindergarten Association of Charleston; poems (a few with illustrations); and short stories with critiques. Also included are report cards, diplomas, teaching certificates, and travel diaries (1915-1950) of Mabel and Carrie Pollitzer and two bound volumes (1871) containing school lecture notes of Clara Guinzburg Pollitzer, their mother.

2.25 linear ft.

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Pollitzer, Carrie T. (Carrie Teller), 1881-1974

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Carrie Teller Pollitzer was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1881, the oldest daughter of Gustave and Clara Pollitzer. As an advocate for the national Progressive Movement, Carrie dedicated herself to enhancing childhood education and advancing women’s rights in South Carolina in the early twentieth century. In the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries, Carrie received her primary and secondary education at Charleston’s Memminger Normal School. Founded by Christopher G. Memminger ...

Pollitzer, Mabel, 1885-1979

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Charleston, S.C. teacher, civic leader, and women's rights activist. A graduate of Columbia University (N.Y.), she taught at Memminger High School and was active in many community and professional organizations, serving as the state chairperson of the National Woman's Party. Her sister Carrie T. Pollitzer became assistant principal and a member of the faculty of the South Carolina Kindergarten Training School and was later its director. She played a leading role in the asmission of women to the ...

College of Charleston

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Tate, W. K. (William Knox), 1870-1917

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Educator and proponent of public schools, of Charleston, S.C., and elsewhere; born, 1870, in Grainger County, Tenn.; moved with his family as a young child to a frontier section of Arkansas, where he graduated from high school at Siloam Springs Academy. He taught for two years near Siloam Springs before entering Arkansas Industrial School (an institution now known as University of Arkansas). In 1890 he entered Peabody Normal College on scholarship and took his B.A. degree in 1892. At Tyler High ...

Pollitzer, Clara Guinzburg.

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