Objects Archives - South Carolina Encyclopedia

J. P. Neal Jr. interviews musician John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie. Topics covered include how he got his nickname, his view on the South being the place where racism can be overcame, and music as a bridgeway to understanding.

"Rebel 400" Stock Car Race--Outtakes

Various scenes of activities before the race. Man receiving an award, Confederate flag, woman on float shaped like an eagle, and cars racing around the track.

“The Scotch Editor of New York Again Rebuked”

Letter, from the Edgefield Advertiser, written by a "Scotchman of South Carolina," to the editor of the Scotch American Journal, New York, justifying secession.

1400 block of Main, Palmetto Building detail

Three Story red brick building on the corner of a street

147 King St.

1800 Senate Street

Photograph of Shoeless Joe Jackson on 1907 Victor Mills Baseball Team

1907 Shoeless Joe Jackson on Victor Mills team

One of the earliest known baseball images of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, pictured as a member of the Victor Mills industrial league team of Greer, South Carolina.

1920 Babe Ruth and Shoeless Joe

Shoeless Joe Jackson (r.) of the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees' Babe Ruth look at one of Babe's home run bats in 1920.

1934 Parkdale Mill newsreel footage--exhibit

Albert Hinson speaks to workers of the Parkdale Mill in Gastonia. Urges workers to establish a union local. Crowds cheer the result of a workers vote to “stop off” (i.e., strike). Additional silent scenes showing the grounds of Parkdale Mill.

1939 Campus Scene of Seven Allen University Students

Sign hanging outside of building that reads "colored waiting room"

1943 Colored Waiting Room Sign

1983-84 Stadium Renovation

The raw, unedited footage of the new natural grass playing surface being installed at Williams-Brice Stadium. During the 1983–84 offseason, at the urging of new coach Joe Morrison, the university removed the AstroTurf and replaced it with natural grass.

stone monument along a trail in the woods noting the location of a wounded colonel

1st Virginia Cavalry Monument Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

Monument at Guilford Court House battlefield to the 1st Virginia Cavalry, commanded by Lieut. Col. William Washington. Lieut Col. Washington commanded the 1st Virginia Cavalry as the accompanied General Nathanael Greene to one of the pivotal battles of the American Revolutionary War.

A large group of black and white participants walk across a bridge, including easier civil rights leaders

45th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama

An older three story brick house on the street with a balcony, one side covered with ivy on the walls

46 Tradd Street, Alfred Hutty House, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Building with intricate entrance, and a red tile roof. In front there are two palmetto trees and two black cars

61 Meeting Street

Older three story building with two porches and ivy growing on the staircase to the entrance

70 Tradd St.

Cartoon of man and woman watching TV. Dialogue reads: "South Carolina has a $9.9 million surplus!" "We can't educate our children, house our prisoners, or lower our infant mortality rate as well as some other states do... but, by George, we can finally balance our budget!"

A Balanced Budget

A Caledonia Hunting Party

A group of men stand with their African-American hunting guides at Caledonia plantation in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.