Research collection of printed advertisements, ca. 1910s-1940s, issued by various investment firms around the U.S., promoting sales of municipal revenue bonds to fund various civic improvement projects in S.C. counties and cities; majority of bonds target construction, expansion, or improvement of roads, highways, and bridges; arranged alphabetically by county. Many broadsheets include demographic and economic statistics of the counties, listing profits from local industries and crops grown; includes a few maps, such as the route of the Coastal Highway through the Lowcountry counties of Beaufort through Dillon. Some bonds seek funding for other projects, such as storm sewers (1927, in Dillon County), school district bonds (Anderson, Greenville, and elsewhere); waterworks and parks (1923, in Greenville, S.C.), and "electric light bonds" (1919, in Sumter, S.C.). Earlier documents include correspondence, ca. 1900, and copies of 19th century acts approved by the S.C. General Assembly, ca. 1868-1890s, which established legal precedent allowing the state to seek funding in this manner. Several texts of legal justification of this process (bound between Counties of Spartanburg and Sumter), include "An act to provide for the formation of certain corporations under certain laws, 1888"; an act re payment of the a part of the S.C. State debt, "Redemption of the... Brown Consol Bonds and Stock" (approved 1889, and amended, 1890, 1891); and letter, 5 Mar. 1900, from W.H. Timmerman, Office of State Treasurer (Columbia, S.C.), to Tobey & Kirk, of New York, answering an inquiry on redemption of bonds issued by the Bank of the State of S.C. in 1868. These 213 bond offerings photocopied from originals in the Baker Library of Harvard Business School (acquired 1981).
