Charleston Newspaper Article Scrapbook

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2008.005.13

Scope and Content

Newspaper articles mostly about Lowcountry plantations and sites, including many "Do You Know Your Lowcountry" and some "Do You Know Your Peedee" articles, most with photographs. Presumably, this scrapbook was created and maintained by the donor or a family member of the donor. Front cover is decoratively embossed and has a gold-colored design; the words "scrap book" are also embossed on the cover. The creator did not retain or otherwise document the dates of the newspaper articles; however some of the loose articles are dated 1930 and 1931, other dates may be able to be determined by the home ownership for some of the articles, in particular the "Do You Know..." articles. Contents: Cash Place; Hanover Plantation; Hopsewee; The Wedge; Strawberry Chapel; Sugarloaf Mountain; Brick House; St. Stephen's Church; Springfield Plantation; Seven Oaks [Sevenoaks]; Prospect Hill; Middleburg; Harrietta Plantation; Belfair; Sage House at Bell Isle Gardens; Long Brow Plantation; Francis Marion House (and cemetery); Pimlico; Mepkin; Medway; Gippy Plantation; Adam Tunno's House (89 East Bay Street); Huntington House; Wando Plantation; The Oaks; Bull's Island; Marshlands; Young-Johnson House (35 Church Street); Cypress Gardens; Exeter; Wappoolah; Hobcaw Barony; Humphrey Sommer's Tenement (2 Bedon's Alley); 26 Legare Street; Miles Brewton House (27 King Street); 344 East Bay Street; Cannon Street Lake; Mulberry Plantation; Thomas Rose House (59 Church Street); Runnymede; Hampton Plantation; Fenwick Hall; Eutaw Plantation; Heyward-Washington House (87 Church Street); Intracoastal Waterway; Grace Protestant Episcopal Church; 36 Murray Boulevard; Germania Bank / Citizens and Southern Bank / Atlantic Savings Bank (34 Broad Street); Riverland Terrace; City Hall paintings; Kadal Kadosh Beth Elohim (KKBE) (90 Hasell Street); F.J. Aichele Residence; Stanyarne Hall; Queen Anne Cottage on the grounds of Memminger High School; Roper Hospital (Lucas and Calhoun Streets) and Old Roper Hospital (Queen Street); Catholic Diocese Home at Ashley and Bee Streets; King Street in the 1890s; Michaux and the Michaux Garden; the Citadel and Old Citadel; Oak Lawn Plantation; Drayton Hall; Municipal Yacht Basin; 340 Meeting Street (John Ancrum House / Weyman's Folly); Middleburg Plantation; the City Market and market sheds; 50 Church Street; 9 Ladson Street; Marlboro Apartments (formerly Old Roper Hospital); Aquatic Center in the 1880s; South Battery 1870s; East Bay Street during 1911 Hurricane (Missroon House in background); Charleston Battery many years ago; bronze bust of William Gilmore Simms at White Point Gardens; Simmons-Edwards House (14 Legare Street); William Gibbes House (64 South Battery); John Winthrop House (129 Tradd Street); Capt. John Morrison House (125 Tradd Street); Capers-Huger-smith House (69 Church Street); Edmonston-Alston House (21 East Battery); Timothy Ford House (54 Meeting Street); Dock Street Theater (135 Church Street); James Huston House (131 Church Street); Drayton-Manigault House (6 Gibbes Street); Othniel Beale House (101 East Bay Street; William Hendricks Tenements (83 Church Street). Articles loose in scrapbook include: letter to the editor from Susan Pringle Frost about her restoration and historic preservation work; Miss Kate Gleason (woman builder interested in SC sea island development); "The Old Rice Legend" / story of Thomas Landrave Smith; apartments to be completed on the Halsey Lumber Mill site; King's Highway and its inns. Photocopies have been made of articles loose in scrapbook, and placed in the respective property files: tour brochure for 64 South Battery, 32 South Battery, 101 East Bay Street, 192 Ashley Avenue; Old Exchange Building; St. Paul's Episcopal Church; Heyward-Washington House; Dock Street Theater (Planter's Hotel); Palmetto Bluff / Vanderbilt Home (Beaufort); Tomotley, Brewton Plantation, Bindon, Castle Hill (Beaufort); All Saints' Parish (Waccamaw); Ponemah Plantation; and Harrietta Plantation.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Archives

Acquisition

Accession

2008.005.

Source or Donor

Mr. Joseph H. McGee

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. McGee

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Scrapbook

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Album

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Memorabilia

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Scrapbooks, Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.

Search Terms

Relocated buildings, Historic buildings--South Carolina, Plantations--South Carolina

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

1 scrapbook, 12.5" x 16.25", 62 pages, with leather(?) front and back covers, bound by string

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1930s?+ Date(s): 1930s?+ Date(s) Assembled: Unknown System of Arrangement: Newspaper articles have been glued to each page; pages are contained between the front and back covers, which are bound together by a string.

Location

Container

See Notes Tab

Shelf

Archives D-13

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

Document Box

Shelf

Archives D-6, Archives D-6

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Condition

Notes

Scrapbook pages are brittle and tear/break easily. Some pages have become torn out of the lace holding the volume together. Newspaper articles that extend beyond the size of the page are fragile and break/tear easily.

General Notes

Note

Notes: In box with 2007.020.9 and 2008.005.12

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

March 19, 2008

Updated By

kemmons

Update Date

August 19, 2019