Margaretta Pringle Childs papers, 1922-ca. 1975.

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Margaretta Pringle Childs papers, 1922-ca. 1975.

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Papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes, and other items. Correspondence includes letters to Margaretta P. Childs from her father Ernest H. Pringle, Jr., Mary Fenhagen, her brother McColl Pringle, Ernest Childs, and many others regarding mainly family and personal matters. There is also correspondence regarding Margaretta Childs' education and applications for employment. Papers include Childs' writings on Elizabeth W.A. Pringle, Caroline Petigru Carson, and Joseph Blyth Allston's view of Berlin (Germany) in 1856, with notes, research, and related correspondence. Also included are notes, clippings, and correspondence (1947-1948) concerning African American policemen; studies and reports concerning social conditions of African Americans in Charleston (1944-1958); correspondence, clippings, a photograph, and other material (1952-1959) pertaining to efforts by the Preservation Society and others to preserve Bennett's Rice Mill in Charleston, S.C.; and school compositions, papers, and notes on various topics including history and philosophy.

2.25 linear ft.

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Childs, Margaretta Pringle, 1912-2000.

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Charleston, S.C. archivist and social activist. The daughter of Ernest Henry Pringle (1881-1955), she married St. Julien Ravenel Childs (1897-1983) in 1935. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1932 and received a Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1940. A student of history, Margaretta P. Childs was involved in efforts to preserve historic buildings in Charleston, S.C. She was active in many local and national organizations including the Charleston Interracial Committee (1947-1958). ...

Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1845-1921) was the daughter of South Carolina Governor Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864). She married John Julius Pringle (1842-1876) in 1870 and lived at White House Plantation (S.C). She became a widow at the age of thirty-one and moved to the Allston family plantation, Chicora Wood, to help her mother, Adele P. Allston, care for her widowed brother's children. She was the author of "A Woman Rice Planter" and "Chronicles of Chicora Wood" and she wrote under the ...

Childs, Ernest Henry, 1881-1955.

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Bennett's Mill (Charleston, S.C.)

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Allston, Joseph Blyth, 1833-1904.

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Carson, Caroline, 1820-1892

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Caroline Petigru Carson, daughter of James Louis Petigru (1789-1863), a South Carolina attorney, writer, and politician, was an artist and poet. She married William Augustus Carson (1800-1856), a South Carolina rice plantation owner, in 1841. She died in Rome, Italy, where she had moved during the Civil War. From the description of A walk in the pine forest : poem, 1848. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144344 Charleston, South Carolina artist a...