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Interior of Cook's Drugstore

Date: 1945
Description: View of the interior of Cook's Drugstore. Several staff members are standing behind the counter in the store's rear. A customer waiting area is on the left...
Photograph

Preparing Powders

Date: 1945
Description: Pharmacist Roy Bird Cook prepares medicinal powders to be weighed for a prescription.
Photograph

Oyster and Clam Vendor

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Description: An African American vendor of oysters and clams is shown pushing his wheelbarrow. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him.
Photograph

The Chicken Peddler

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Description: A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him.
Photograph

Civil Rights Activist

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Description: A female, African American Civil Rights activist wearing a fur pelt attending a meeting.
Photograph

Charleston Civil Rights Meeting

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Description: Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur...
Magazine or Periodical

The National Democratic Convention

Date: 04 23 1860
Description: Drawing of The National Democratic Convention in session at Charleston, South Carolina.
Photograph

Oak Tree Corridor

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Description: A view looking down a dirt road leading to what appears to be a house. The road is bordered by large oak trees with Spanish moss hanging from their limbs.
Photograph

Cypress Gardens

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Description: View from shoreline toward two men and a woman seated in a boat, traveling through the water at Cypress Gardens.
Photograph

Cypress Gardens Boating

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Description: View from shoreline toward people boating in Cypress Gardens. Two boats are visible, holding both men and women.
Photograph

Baptist Church

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Description: View of the Baptist church built in 1822.
Photograph

Saint Michael's Alley

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Description: View of Saint Michael's Alley.
Photograph

Park Gate

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Description: A view of an ornate metal gateway to a city park. Trees, facing rows of park benches and a bust on a pedestal can be seen through the gate.
Photograph

Fort Sumter after Bombardment

Date: 04 15 1861
Description: Fort Sumter after bombardment by the Confederates.
Photograph

Interior of Fort Sumter

Date: 1865
Description: Interior of Fort Sumter.
Photograph

Fort Sumter

Date: 1861
Description: Stereograph of exterior of Fort Sumter.
Postcard

Fort Sumter

Date: 1915
Description: View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C."
Poster

General Order. Head Quarters, Department of Western Virginia."

Date: 09 17 1862
Description: Proclamation of amnesty by Confederate Major General Loring, offering "Christian charity" to citizens who have been armed by the Union if they surrender th...
Poster

General Order. Head Quarters, Department of Western Virginia."

Date: 09 24 1862
Description: A proclamation by Confederate Major General Loring asserting the soundness of Confederate currency and encouraging citizens to use it in trade and accept i...
Photograph

Middleton Place

Date: 
Description: View of a brick cottage with ivy in a clearing as seen from a small dirt road through the woods. The road is bordered by flowering azalea bushes and the Sp...

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