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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Visual Materials - South Caroliniana Library
Visual Materials Division documents the people, places, and culture of South Carolina through a collection of 19th- and 20th-century photographs, postcards, illustrated newspapers, engravings, and lithographs. Other holdings include original artwork, sculpture, posters, blueprints, and architectural drawings.
Researchers will find many images held by Visual Materials Division described in the online catalog.
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In 1900, 'Miss Waring' won a race associated with Charleston's Blockade Week festival. - 27398 Bytes Call 803-777-7090 or email Ms. Beth Bilderback, at bilderbk@mailbox.sc.eduAddtional S.C. images available from:
Roll over image for caption (using Internet Explorer browser).Printed drawing of the Library's reading room by Philip Mullen. - 3333 Bytes The Arsenal building, Beaufort, S.C. (postcard, ca. 1950s) - 33199 Bytes Baseball Team, Harbison Agricultural College (Irmo, S.C.) - 10120 Bytes 'Steady Freddie' Green (1911-1987), ca. 1937, when he joined the Count Basie Orchestra. - 115641 Bytes View of Columbia, S.C., 1908, from West side of Congaree River, photographed by William L. Blanchard who worked in Columbia from 1906-39. - 41948 Bytes Women Picking in the Field; oil painting by Margaret Moffett Law (1871-1956) - 49496 Bytes Daguerreotype by David L. Glen of Charleston, S.C. - 11212 Bytes See recent gifts of Visual Materials announced in 2005
The Honorable James F. Byrnes (1882-1972) stands on a street in Conway, S.C., while on the campaign trail in 1939, posing with two full strings of fish borrowed from some passing children for the photo-op. - 13697 Bytes To browse descriptions of many items held by Visual Materials Division, go to the online catalog, click on the pull-down menu and limit search to Columbia South Caroliniana Library.
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PICTORIAL The term will appear in the catalog along with the name of the person, location, event, school, organization, or business, as seen in the following examples of subject headings:
- Strickland, Lily, 1887-1958 -- Pictorial works.
- Ophir Gold Mines -- Pictorial works.
- Columbia (S.C.) -- Pictorial works.
- Stanley's China Hall (Columbia, S.C.) -- Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Pictorial works.
- Albumen prints
- Ambrotypes
- Architectural drawings
- Art work
- Blueprints
- Cabinets
- Cartes-de-visite
- Cased photographs
- Collodion prints
- Cyanotypes
- Daguerreotypes
- Drawings
- Lithographs
- Paintings
- Photographs
- Postcards
- Prints
- Sketches
- Snapshots
- Stereo views
- Stereographs
- Technical drawings
- Tintypes
Celebrated diarist, Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886); carte-de-visite, ca. 1862. - 7466 Bytes Postcard view of Mulberry, near Camden, S.C. In 1840, seventeen-year-old bride Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut joined her husband James Chesnut (1815-1885) at this Kershaw County home. They lived at Mulberry until 1848 when the couple moved into Camden, S.C. - 51468 Bytes Actress Lois Collier of Salley, S.C., ca. 1950s. - 45974 Bytes Students on joggling board at the Laing School (Mt. Plesant, S.C.), from the Abby D. Munro papers (Manuscripts Division) - 35063 Bytes View of Beaufort, S.C. (postcard, circa 1940) - 34304 Bytes Main Links
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