The Herald: Salute to Charleston

Publication

Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2009.002.042

Description

Special edition of "South Carolinas only Negro newspaper." A tribute to Charleston, "the great seaport metropolis, its history, its progress." Headline reads The Charleston, S.C. Story: Negro Education, Business and Civic Religious Progress." Articles and/or photographs of note include: Charleston city schools including Burke High School, Archer elementary (Nassau Street), Buist Elementary (Calhoun Street), Columbus Street Elementary, Courtenay Elementary (Meeting Street), A.B. Rhett Elementary (President Street), Sanders-Clyde Elementary (East Bay Street?), Stantun Elementary (Jasper Street), Immaculate Conception High School (Coming Street), Jane Edwards Elementary, Laing High, Rock Elementary, North Charleston, Baptist Hill Elementary/Baptist Hill High School, Liberty Hill Elementary, Wallace High School/ Wallace Elementary School Various businesses including James Brothers Hotel on Spring Street; Fielding Funeral Home with photos of the original funeral home (no address/street provided), the Fielding family home on 61 Logan Street, and current funeral home building on 122 Logan Street; Taylor's Bakery on Spring Street; Miller Motel (Highway 17); Pete's Grill (no address provided), Washington's Restaurant (State Street) and the Ashley Grill (Spring Street) Longshoremen Union welfare fund The Jenkins Orphanage and Jenkins Orphanage Band (a/k/a Jenkins Home Band) Black churches including St. John's Reformed Episcopal Church and Emmanuel A.M.E. Church, St. Paul A.M.E. Church Photos of King Street with Peggy Dress Shop (561 King Street ) in foreground; photo of spring Street showing Pure and Texaco gas stations; Old Slave Mart (6 Chalmers Street), Market Hall Article entitled "Negroes Learned Secret of Charleston's Famed Mansion Flying Staircases" (Joseph Manigault House, 350 Meeting Street, staircase) Almost full-page article about Herbert A. DeCosta Jr. and his construction and contracting work 16 p. : ill. [photos] (11x17 photocopy of original)

Collection

Pamphlets, Guidebooks, Reports, Theses/Dissertations

Acquisition

Accession

2009.002.

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2009)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Serial

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

African Americans--South Carolina--Newspapers, African American churches--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--South Carolina--Charleston, African American schools--South Carolina--Charleston, African American business enterprises--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--South Carolina--Charleston-Charities, Orphanages--South Carolina--Charleston, Jenkins Orphanage Band, Jenkins Orphanage Institute (Charleston, S.C.)

Publication Details

Publisher

Davis Lee

Place Published

Location

Anderson, SC

Date Published

1962

Call No.

F279 .C49 N44 1962

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Other Number

P189

Location

Shelf

Books-Pamphlets

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Date

February 7, 2023

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

DeCosta, Herbert

General Notes

Note

Notes: Original issue was found among the Frances Edmunds papers. Given to Avery Research Center in March 2009. USC library has several issues in its catalog. Status: Shelf

Created By

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Create Date

March 18, 2009

Updated By

kemmons

Update Date

January 22, 2016