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World War II B-25

Date: 04 18 1992
Description: "Skunkie," a restored B-25 bomber similar those flown in the famous Jimmy Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. At the 50th anniversary celebration of the raid, "Skunki...
Photograph

Leath's Furniture Co. Sale

Date: 04 30 1931
Description: Elevated view looking across street towards a crowd waiting to attend the opening of the Black Furniture Company's bankrupt sale at Leath's furniture store...
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Railroad Crew Posing with Steam Engine

Date: 1890
Description: Crew from the Augusta and Knoxville railroad posing with a steam engine.
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Farmers Cut Wood with Farmall F-30 Tractor

Date: 03 07 1938
Description: Men operating a belt-driven sawmill powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the property of W.A. Moorhead.
Drawing

Hook's Defeat

Date: 03 26 1876
Description: Hand-drawn map showing the place of Hook's defeat in York County in South Carolina.
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Convict Labor During World War I

Date: 09 1917
Description: South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone...
Painting

On a Sugar Plantation in South Carolina

Date: 1859
Description: Hölzlhuber felt his most interesting experiences in America were his interactions with southern slavery. "My sketch here shows a negro family as I saw them...
Poster

Camp Asylum

Date: 1865
Description: Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina.
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Mock Artillery Battery

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Description: Stereograph of a mock battery erected by the 79h New York Volunteer Artillery at Seabrook Point, Coosaw River.
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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.
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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.
Drawing

Catawba River

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Description: Drawn map of the Catawba River, fishing creek, and surrounding landscape from the Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Landsford, Chester County

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Description: Drawn map of Landsford, South Carolina, from Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Hanging Rock Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of the Hanging Rock Battlefield in the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Hanging Rock Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of Hanging Rock Battlefield from the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Blackstock's Plantation Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of Blackstock's Plantation battlefield from the Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Fish Dam Ford Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of the Fish Damn Ford battlefield from the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Blackstock's Plantation Battlefield Map

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Description: Drawn map of Blackstock's Plantation battlefield from the Thomas Sumter Papers.
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Civil Rights Activist

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Description: A female, African American Civil Rights activist wearing a fur pelt attending a meeting.
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Wadmalaw Island Citizenship Group Building

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Description: Building housing the Wadmalaw Island Citizenship Group.

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