Photographs, [ca. 1920]-1990 (bulk 1940-1960).

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Photographs, [ca. 1920]-1990 (bulk 1940-1960).

Photographs of Claflin University students, faculty, staff, and buildings, and campus events such as commencement, Founder's Day, Homecoming, and church related events.

3 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8057410

Claflin College

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Claflin University

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Founded as Claflin University on Dec. 18, 1869 in Orangeburg, S.C. by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; est. largely through the generosity of Boston philanthropist, the Hon. Lee Claflin and his son, Massachusetts Governor William Claflin; occupies the former site of the Orangeburg Female Seminary; in 1871 merged with Baker Biblical Institute, founded in 1866 in Charleston, S.C., and recently moved to Orangeburg, and with a training school in Camden, S.C.; from 1872 t...

Claflin College (Orangeburg, S.C.)

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Founded as Claflin University on Dec. 18, 1869 in Orangeburg, S.C. by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; est. largely through the generosity of Boston philanthropist, the Hon. Lee Claflin and his son, Massachusetts Governor William Claflin; occupies the former site of the Orangeburg Female Seminary; in 1871 merged with Baker Biblical Institute, founded in 1866 in Charleston, S.C., and recently moved to Orangeburg, and with a training school in Camden, S.C.; from 1872 t...