Creator Grice, Edmund P.
Date 1933–1959
Physical description 82 volumes in 21 boxes
Preferred Citation [Identification of the Specific Item], Edmund P. Grice Scrapbook Collection, Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, SC.
Repository The Charleston Archive
Compiled By Processed 2007, K. Gray and H. Greene.
Access to materials Collection is open for research.
Subject Headings Charleston (S.C.)--History--20th century
Charleston (S.C.)--Politics and government
Postal service
Public welfare--South Carolina
  Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of 82 scrapbooks maintained by Edmund P. Grice, City of Charleston Alderman, Postmaster, and director of social work organizations. The scrapbooks are divided into five series, based upon the topic of the articles therein: Charleston Politics, City of Charleston, Grice “Personal”, Postal, and Public Relief. The majority of materials within the scrapbooks are newspaper articles, clipped primarily from the Charleston News & Courier and the Charleston Evening Post, and are primarily arranged in chronological order.

Series I: Charleston Politics contains eight scrapbooks that document Charleston politics and politicians from 1947–1959. Most articles pertain to the Democratic Party, yet there is also information on the Republican Party and the States Rights Democratic Party. Local, state, and national politicians are mentioned including: Burnet R. Maybank, J. Waties Waring, J. Strom Thurmond, James F. Byrnes, William M. Morrison, and J. Palmer Gaillard. Topics covered include: civil rights, primaries and elections, state education, visiting dignitaries, and Charleston history.

Series II: City of Charleston contains three scrapbooks that document the activities of the government of the City of Charleston from December 1934 – June 1938. The articles focus especially upon issues of a financial nature, such as audits, bond issues, and taxation. Other topics include: development issues, printed minutes of City Council, visiting dignitaries, and public improvement projects. Of particular note are articles containing photographs of buildings that are no longer standing and pictures showing the development of local industries.

Series III: Grice “Personal” contains eleven scrapbooks, spanning July 1934 – July 1941, that document aspects of Grice’s professional life and personal interests, concentrating heavily on politics. Other topics include public relief, gambling raids, visiting dignitaries, South Carolina Masonic history, “Jeffersonian” Democrats, and the gubernatorial election and inauguration of Burnet R. Maybank.

Series IV: Postal contains twelve scrapbooks that document the activities of the Post Office during Grice’s tenure as Postmaster, from September 1946 – December 1959. Various aspects of post office business are covered, such as postal rate hikes, mail theft, post office conventions, the naming of streets, postal and stamp history, and postal employees.

Series V: Public Relief contains thirty–two scrapbooks, spanning May 1933 – May 1941, which document various relief programs in Charleston, the Lowcountry, and the State. While most topics do relate to relief activities, there are other related articles on politics and politicians, history and historic sites, and various government agencies. Many scrapbooks have individual indices.

 

Administrative/Biographical History

This collection consists of 82 scrapbooks maintained by Edmund P. Grice, City of Charleston Alderman, Postmaster, and director of social work organizations. The scrapbooks are divided into five series, based upon the topic of the articles therein: Charleston Politics, City of Charleston, Grice “Personal”, Postal, and Public Relief. The majority of materials within the scrapbooks are newspaper articles, clipped primarily from the Charleston News & Courier and the Charleston Evening Post, and are primarily arranged in chronological order.

Series I: Charleston Politics contains eight scrapbooks that document Charleston politics and politicians from 1947–1959. Most articles pertain to the Democratic Party, yet there is also information on the Republican Party and the States Rights Democratic Party. Local, state, and national politicians are mentioned including: Burnet R. Maybank, J. Waties Waring, J. Strom Thurmond, James F. Byrnes, William M. Morrison, and J. Palmer Gaillard. Topics covered include: civil rights, primaries and elections, state education, visiting dignitaries, and Charleston history.

Series II: City of Charleston contains three scrapbooks that document the activities of the government of the City of Charleston from December 1934 – June 1938. The articles focus especially upon issues of a financial nature, such as audits, bond issues, and taxation. Other topics include: development issues, printed minutes of City Council, visiting dignitaries, and public improvement projects. Of particular note are articles containing photographs of buildings that are no longer standing and pictures showing the development of local industries.

Series III: Grice “Personal” contains eleven scrapbooks, spanning July 1934 – July 1941, that document aspects of Grice’s professional life and personal interests, concentrating heavily on politics. Other topics include public relief, gambling raids, visiting dignitaries, South Carolina Masonic history, “Jeffersonian” Democrats, and the gubernatorial election and inauguration of Burnet R. Maybank.

Series IV: Postal contains twelve scrapbooks that document the activities of the Post Office during Grice’s tenure as Postmaster, from September 1946 – December 1959. Various aspects of post office business are covered, such as postal rate hikes, mail theft, post office conventions, the naming of streets, postal and stamp history, and postal employees.

Series V: Public Relief contains thirty–two scrapbooks, spanning May 1933 – May 1941, which document various relief programs in Charleston, the Lowcountry, and the State. While most topics do relate to relief activities, there are other related articles on politics and politicians, history and historic sites, and various government agencies. Many scrapbooks have individual indices.

 

Location of Copies

In 1999, this scrapbook collection was microfilmed through a grant from the State Historical Records Advisory Board with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Since that time, two additional scrapbooks have been located and added to this collection: Series III, Scrapbook 1 and Series V, Scrapbook 1. These two volumes are therefore not included in the microfilm. Additionally, the numbering system found on the microfilm is outdated and does not reflect the current collection outline. The microfilm is available for use in the South Carolina Room of the Charleston County Public Library.

 

Acquisition

Unknown.

 

Personal Names

Grice, Edmund P.

 

Collection Outline

A detailed outline follows with a subject listing of the articles found in each individual scrapbook.

I. Series I: Charleston Politics 1947 – 1959  
  Scrapbook 1 September 9, 1947 – April 19, 1949 BOX 1
  Scrapbook 2 April 19, 1949 – February 14, 1950  BOX 1
  Scrapbook 3 February 14, 1950 – May 29, 1951 BOX 2
  Scrapbook 4 June 6, 1951 – January 28, 1952  BOX 2
  Scrapbook 5 January 28, 1952 – July 1, 1952  BOX 2
  Scrapbook 6 July 1, 1952 – October 21, 1953 BOX 3
  Scrapbook 7 November 1, 1953 – March 2, 1955  BOX 3
  Scrapbook 8 June 14, 1957 – March 2, 1959  BOX 3
II. Series II: City of Charleston 1934 – 1938  
  Scrapbook 1 December 1934 – June 1936  BOX 4
  Scrapbook 1 December 1934 – June 1936  BOX 4
  Scrapbook 3 June 1937 – June 1938  BOX 4
III. Series III: Grice “Personal” 1934 – 1941  
  Scrapbook 1 July 2, 1934 – August 20, 1934  BOX 5
  Scrapbook 2 August 12, 1934 – July 9, 1935 BOX 5
  Scrapbook 3 July 17, 1935 – August 26, 1936  BOX 5
  Scrapbook 4 May 13, 1936 – July 18, 1938  BOX 5
  Scrapbook 5 June 9, 1938 – October 16, 1938  BOX 6
  Scrapbook 6 August 11, 1938 – September 6, 1938  BOX 6
  Scrapbook 7 July 13, 1938 – January 27, 1939  BOX 6
  Scrapbook 8 September 6, 1938 – November 18, 1938  BOX 6
  Scrapbook 9 January 1, 1939 – January 18, 1939  BOX 7
  Scrapbook 10 October 28, 1939 – February 12, 1941  BOX 7
  Scrapbook 11 July 1, 1940 – July 31, 1941  BOX 7
IV. Series IV: Postal 1946 – 1959  
  Scrapbook 1 September 27, 1946 – March 19, 1949  BOX 8
  Scrapbook 2 March 17, 1949 – January 12, 1950  BOX 8
  Scrapbook 3 January 11, 1950 – December 7, 1950  BOX 8
  Scrapbook 4 December 6, 1950 – May 2, 1951 BOX 9
  Scrapbook 5 May 11, 1951 – January 28, 1952 BOX 9
  Scrapbook 6 January 27, 1952 – August 6, 1952  BOX 9
  Scrapbook 7 August 9, 1952 – January 9, 1954  BOX 10
  Scrapbook 8 January 8, 1954 – March 10, 1955  BOX 10
  Scrapbook 9 March 3, 1955 – November 27, 1955 BOX 10
  Scrapbook 10 October 2, 1955 – August 5, 1956  BOX 11
  Scrapbook 11 December 8, 1957 – January 31, 1959 BOX 11
  Scrapbook 12 January 9, 1959 – December 12, 1959  BOX 11
V. Series V: Public Relief 1933 – 1941  
  Scrapbook 1 April 26, 1933 – May 20, 1933 BOX 12
  Scrapbook 2 May 20, 1933 – August 10, 1933  BOX 12
  Scrapbook 3 August 10, 1933 – September 22, 1933  BOX 12
  Scrapbook 4 September 22, 1933 – November 22, 1933  BOX 12
  Scrapbook 5 November 22, 1933 – January 27, 1934  BOX 13
  Scrapbook 6 January 27, 1934 – April 6, 1934  BOX 13
  Scrapbook 7 April 6, 1934 – June 14, 1934  BOX 13
  Scrapbook 8 June 15, 1934 – September 5, 1934  BOX 14
  Scrapbook 9 September 6, 1934 – November 29, 1934  BOX 14
  Scrapbook 10 November 10, 1934 – February 8, 1935 BOX 14
  Scrapbook 11 February 9, 1935 – April 16, 1935 BOX 15
  Scrapbook 12 April 17, 1935 – June 20, 1935  BOX 15
  Scrapbook 13 June 20, 1935 – July 21, 1935  BOX 15
  Scrapbook 14 July 22, 1935 – September 11, 1935  BOX 16
  Scrapbook 15 September 11, 1935 – November 19, 1935  BOX 16
  Scrapbook 16 November 17, 1935 – March 11, 1936  BOX 16
  Scrapbook 17 March 8, 1936 – July 23, 1936  BOX 17
  Scrapbook 18 July 23, 1936 – January 3, 1927  BOX 17
  Scrapbook 19 January 4, 1937 – June 28, 1937 BOX 17
  Scrapbook 20 June 6, 1937 – September 3, 1937  BOX 18
  Scrapbook 21 October 7, 1937 – April 26, 1938  BOX 18
  Scrapbook 22 May 12, 1938 – August 19, 1938  BOX 18
  Scrapbook 23 June 9, 1938 – January 29, 1939  BOX 19
  Scrapbook 24 July 21, 1938 – November 23, 1938  BOX 19
  Scrapbook 25 August 25, 1938 – January 6, 1939  BOX 19
  Scrapbook 26 October 7, 1938 – February 25, 1941  BOX 20
  Scrapbook 27 January 9, 1939 – February 7, 1939  BOX 20
  Scrapbook 28 December 1, 1939 – June 20, 1940  BOX 20
  Scrapbook 29 June 16, 1940 – October 10, 1940  BOX 20
  Scrapbook 30 August 1940  BOX 21
  Scrapbook 31 October 1, 1940 – January 31, 1941  BOX 21
  Scrapbook 32 February 1, 1941 – May 21, 1941  BOX 21

 

Collection Inventory

Series I: Charleston Politics, 1947 – 1959

Scrapbook 1: September 9, 1947 – April 19, 1949

  • Various views on the 1948 South Carolina Democratic Primary
  • View and profiles of those seeking nomination for the US Senate seat of Burnet R. Maybank, including Maybank himself, Neville Bennett, Williarm Jennings Bryan Dorn, Marcus A. Stone, and Alan Johnstone
  • John J. Irwin’s resignation from Charleston Central Labor Union, and Charleston Development Board
  • Court suit brought by African–Americans to participate in South Carolina’s Democratic Primary
  • Federal Judge J. Waties Waring’s ruling to allow African–Americans full participation in South Carolina’s Democratic Party
  • Reaction of white Democrats and politicians to Waring’s ruling
  • Descriptions of the various tactics used by Democrats to avoid the ruling
  • Call by many white Democrats for the impeachment of Judge Waring
  • Articles on the founding and creation of the States Rights Democratic Party and its nomination of J. Strom Thurmond as its presidential candidate
  • Political decisions and activities of Senator Burnet R. Maybank
  • Articles on anti–lynching laws, rent control laws, and oleo laws
  • Articles on African–American vote in the Democratic Primary
  • Articles on abuse suffered by African–Americans for voting
  • Marriage of Burnet R. Maybank to Mrs. Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil
  • Articles on local Charleston historical and current event topics including the Charleston Orphan House, the City Orphan House on Queen Street, Masonic events, James Louis Petigru, the merger of the city of Charleston with its suburbs, zoning allowing the construction of the Sgt. Jasper Apartments, and other subjects

Scrapbook 2: April 19, 1949 – February 14, 1950

  • Political and personal activities of Senator Burnet R. Maybank
  • Reactions to Judge J. Waties Waring’s order to open up the State Democratic Party to African–Americans
  • Charleston Orphan House and City Orphan House
  • Judge Waring’s condemnation of the Charleston press
  • Vice–President Alban Barkley’s visit to Columbia, Sc
  • Legalization of sale of US Government land to Porter Academy
  • Sale of excess Fort Moultrie property to Sullivan’s Island township
  • Conflict between National Democratic Party executive committee and members of the States Rights Democratic Party
  • Masonic activities and events
  • Charleston Public Housing; possible expansion of Robert Mills Manor into the West Street area
  • Stark Industrial Park
  • Visit of the USS Ingraham to Charleston Naval Base, per request of Mrs. George Ingraham Hutchinson
  • Preparation to build the Sgt. Jasper Apartments, Broad Street, Charleston
  • Comments of Elizabeth Avery (Mr. J. Waties) Waring on integration, race relations, and Southern whites; and Southern and local reaction to her words

Scrapbook 3: February 14, 1950 – May 29, 1951

  • Rebuttals and reactions to Elizabeth Avery (Mrs. J. Waties) Waring’s speech on white Southerners, race relations, and segregation
  • Articles on personal and political activities of US Senator Burnet R. Maybank
  • Charleston Airport
  • Honors awarded to Judge J. Waties Waring
  • Senator Burnet Rhett Maybank’s stand on rent control
  • Harassment of Judge and Mrs. J. Waties Waring
  • Loan approval for Charleston Housing Projects
  • Calls for impeachment of Judge J. Waties Waring
  • Extension of East Bay Street, Charleston
  • Transfer of federal housing projects to the Charleston Housing Authority
  • Azalea Festival
  • 9th Annual Hamptom Watermelon Festival
  • Political ad for Olin D. Johnston
  • West Virginia Pulp and Paper Mill’s dedication of tree farms
  • General election of 1950
  • Body guards for Judge J. Waties Waring, and “pilgrimage” to his Charleston home after its stoning
  • Charleston debutantes and debut of Senator Maybank’s daughter, Elizabeth deRossett Maybank
  • Opening of legal case in Charleston Federal Court brought by NAACP to end school segregation in Clarendon County, SC

Scrapbook 4: June 6, 1951 – January 28, 1952

  • Articles on Senator Burnet R. Maybank’s personal and political life
  • Scientists educated at the College of Charleston
  • Federal Court, in Charleston, upholds school segregation in Clarendon County
  • Price and rent control Federal legislation
  • 1951 Democratic Primary for Charleston mayor and alderman positions
  • Run–off primary for mayor between incumbent William McG. Morrison and challenger O. T. Wallace
  • Comments on college sports by Charles P. Summerall, President of the Citadel, Clemson President R. F. Poole, College of Charleston President George D. Grice, Furman President John L. Plyler, and Presbyterian College President Marshall Brown
  • City of Aiken housing project
  • The issue of rent control in Charleston
  • Maybank’s refusal to support Harry Truman in 1952 Democratic Convention

Scrapbook 5: January 28, 1952 – July 1, 1952

  • Political and personal life of Senator Burnet R. Maybank
  • Retirement of Judge J. Waties Waring from Federal bench
  • Gov. James F. Byrnes’ support of Federal Court ruling upholding school segregation in Clarendon County
  • Judge J. Waties Waring’s removal from Charleston to New York
  • History of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church and its 200th anniversary
  • Declaration of Charleston and areas of Berkeley and Dorchester Counties as “critical areas” for defense
  • The Atomic Energy Commission and construction of the Savannah River Nuclear Plant
  • Opposition of Charleston County Democrats to another term for President Harry S. Truman
  • Support of SC States Rights Democrats for Richard Russell for President
  • J. Waties Waring’s call for anti–discrimination planks in both political parties
  • Nomination of Ashton Williams for Federal judgeship
  • Proposed transfer of Castle Pinckney to local government

Scrapbook 6: July 1, 1952 – October 21, 1953

  • Political and personal activities of Senator Burnet R. Maybank
  • Senate confirmation of Ashton Williams as Federal judge
  • Federal funds for construction of Hartwell Dam
  • Swearing in ceremony of Ashton Williams
  • South Carolina Democratic Delegation at the Democratic National Convention
  • Refusal of South Carolina Democratic delegates to take loyalty oath
  • Split of Charleston County at SC State Democratic Convention
  • Governor James F. Byrnes’ support of Dwight D. Eisenhower for President
  • Eisenhower’s visit to Columbia, SC
  • Burnet Rhett Maybank, Jr.’s start in state politics
  • General Election coverage in Charleston and South Carolina
  • Local reaction to President Eisenhower’s abolishing of school segregation on military bases
  • Democratic Party convention of 1952
  • Profile of Mayor William A. Courtenay
  • Navy Yard cuts predicted
  • Pictures of South Carolina Congressman and Charleston Port officials

Scrapbook 7: November 1, 1953 – March 2, 1955

  • Political and personal life of Burnet R. Maybank
  • Dedication of Charleston Air Force Base
  • Re–election literature of Burnet R. Maybank
  • Withdrawal of Burnet R. Maybank, Jr. from Lieutenant–Governor’s race
  • Burnet R. Maybank’s work to protect a Robert Mills building in Washington, DC
  • Cotton acreage allotment bill
  • Wedding of Burnet R. Maybank’s daughter Roberta Maybank Paul to William Fripp Prioleau
  • Maybank’s position on foreign aid, Hawaii statehood, deepening Cooper River channel and other issues
  • Maybank’s reaction to end of segregation in public housing
  • Maybank’s retreat from support for public housing
  • Maybank’s unopposed election run
  • Sudden death of Senator Burnet R. Maybank, September 1954
  • Tributes to, memorial service, and funeral of Burnet R. Maybank
  • Edgar A. Brown’s naming as the Democratic Party nominee for Maybank’s senate seat

Scrapbook 8: June 14, 1957 – March 2, 1959

  • Memorials to Gen. Charles P. Summerall
  • Masonic activities and events
  • Civil Rights legislation and Southern reactions
  • Reactions to US Supreme Court and its Civil Rights rulings
  • Former President Herbert Hoover’s visit to Charleston and speech at the Citadel
  • State Democratic Primary
  • Split in Charleston Democratic Party, between factions led by J. Palmer Gaillard and Mayor William McGillivray Morrison
  • Charleston Republican Party Convention
  • Charleston Democratic Party Convention
  • Legacy of Burnet R. Maybank
  • Burnet Maybank, Jr. winning Democratic Primary and serving as Lieutenant Governor
  • State of public school education in South Carolina
  • Public school enrollment figures for Charleston County and South Carolina
  • Run–off primary election between Ernest F. Hollings and Donald Russell for Governor
  • Control of Ward 9, Charleston, by African Americans
  • Society for the Preservation of Negro Spirituals

 

Series II: City of Charleston, 1934 – 1938

Scrapbook 1: December 1934 – June 1936

  • The road to Rockville, SC
  • Stono River Bridge
  • City of Charleston Housing Authority
  • Audit of the Charleston School Board
  • George H. Moffett – official charged with embezzling school board funds
  • Zoning Board and Zoning Ordinances
  • The sale and purchase of the Cooper River Bridge
  • The Santee Cooper Hydro–electrical Project
  • The Azalea Festival
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1935 trip to Charleston
  • Charleston Golf Course
  • Vanderhorst’s Row preservation (East Bay Street)
  • Fort Johnson
  • Summer Regatta
  • City incinerator and trash disposal
  • The Gunboat Charleston
  • Rebuilding of a Charleston County Fair structure
  • Historical markers in Charleston
  • West Virginia Pulp and Paper Mill
  • Maryville Town Charter withdrawn
  • The Society for the Preservation of Negro Spirituals
  • Louis Bickle, charged with embezzling from the Treasurer’s Office
  • Federal Emergency Relief Association
  • Charleston Navy Yard
  • Folly Beach government

Scrapbook 2: June 1936 – May 1937

  • West Virginia Pulp and Paper Mill
  • Pollution fears regarding the Paper Mill
  • City Swimming Pool
  • Charleston waterworks/building of the tunnel to bring water from Edisto River
  • The USS Charleston
  • “Do You Know Your Charleston?” articles
  • Dock Street Theatre
  • Fire on the Clyde Line Pier on Cooper River
  • Sea Plane Terminal at West Point Mill, Ashley River
  • Pan American Airways in Charleston
  • Footlight Players
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 visit to the city
  • Eleanor Roosevelt’s and Lorena Hickock’s 1937 visit to the city
  • The tuberculosis sanatorium
  • City Police Commission
  • Shipbuilding at the Charleston Navy Base
  • The Louis Bickle embezzlement case
  • The Santee Cooper Hydro–electrical Project, and the legal case against building it
  • Buzzard Roost Hydro–electrical Project, Greenwood, SC
  • The Charleston Airport
  • Replacing streetcars with buses
  • Victor Morawetz and Roper Hospital
  • Sullivan’s Island waterworks
  • James H. Dingle, City Engineer
  • The Yacht Basin
  • Drainage in the Northwest section of the city
  • The Prison Farm
  • Highway beautification
  • Charleston Health Department

Scrapbook 3: June 1937 – June 1938

  • Roadwork in the county
  • Cotesworth P. Means, State Senator
  • PWA housing project for African Americans; tenants dislike of white newspaper boy
  • Cannon Street lake
  • Removing overhead wires at Broad and Meeting Streets/costs
  • Brittlebank Park
  • Charleston Immigrant Station
  • Hampton Park/trees
  • Edisto Tunnel (i.e.: tunnel bringing water to City of Charleston)
  • Edisto Road
  • Aerial survey of county for tax purposes
  • Charleston School Board
  • City waterworks
  • Charleston Home (for indigents)
  • Roper Hospital
  • A cannery in Mount Pleasant
  • Dock Street Theatre, renovation and administration
  • Footlight Players
  • Carolina Art Association
  • Cooper River Bridge, sale and purchase
  • Folly Township
  • Williamson Mill/King Street
  • New City School (adjacent to above property, later Rivers High School)
  • Charleston Municipal Airport
  • St. Andrews Parish waterworks
  • Marion Square
  • Old Citadel Building
  • Duke Endowment for South Carolina institutions
  • Slum clearance in the city
  • Federal Housing Project in the city
  • Robert Mills Manor Public Housing Project
  • Azalea Festival
  • E. Talliaferro Heyward
  • Jenkins Orphanage/Franklin Street and later building
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1938 visit to the city
  • North Charleston Boulevard
  • Dock Street Theatre/Rockefeller Foundation
  • Bus fares
  • Santee Cooper Hydro–electrical Project
  • Wagener Terrace
  • College of Charleston Library
  • James H. Dingle, City Engineer, obituary
  • Grove Street

Series III: Grice “Personal”, 1934 – 1941

Note: Although Scrapbook 6 begins earlier than 5, it follows the scrapbooks 1 through 5, which were apparently numbered by Grice.

Scrapbook 1: July 2, 1934 – August 20, 1934

  • J. C. Long and C. E. Sloan come to fisticuffs
  • Democratic candidates for House of Representatives
  • Candidates for solicitor and Senate and unopposed administrative officers
  • Joint campaign meetings for local candidates
  • Absentee voting for Jews
  • Clash between Figg and McGowan
  • Numerous political advertisements and articles regarding the following politicians:
    • Robert McFigg
    • J. C. Long
    • Russell McGowan
    • C. P. Means
    • L. Mendel Rivers
    • William E. Enter
    • C. R. Burbage
    • Burnet R. Maybank
    • Thomas B. Whaley
    • John H. Graham
    • Chalmers S. Murray
    • Hugh Sinkler
    • Ira McK. Koger, Jr.
    • J. W. D. Zerbst

Scrapbook 2: August 12, 1934 – July 10, 1935

  • Purging of Democratic Party rolls in certain City Wards
  • Political advertisements and notices on various Democratic Party candidates for state and local elections and primaries
  • Various stories and issues of 1934 Democratic primary
  • Democratic primary election results
  • General election results
  • Olin D. Johnston’s victory over Cole L. Blease for Governor
  • Governor Johnston’s inaugural address, and criticism of Highway Department
  • Anti–gambling raids in Charleston
  • Huey Long in South Carolina and reactions to his visit
  • Edmund P. Grice, Charleston coordinator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act
  • Broadside advertising a mass meeting of unemployed workers (April 15, 1935)
  • George D. Grice, as acting head of College of Charleston, and on advisory board of Progressive Education Association
  • Edmund P. Grice as administrator of Emergency Relief Act for lowcountry
  • Harry Hopkins’ visit to Charleston
  • Debate re: a municipal auditorium at Wragg Square, Charleston
  • J. A. Von Dohlen, German Consul for Charleston
  • Numerous political advertisements and articles regarding the following politicians:
    • Robert McC. Figg, Jr.
    • L. Mendel Rivers
    • Cotesworth P. Means
    • John C. Long
    • Huger Sinkler
    • Henry Lockwood
    • John P. Grace
    • Russell McGowan
    • J. Wilfred Zerbst
    • John H. Graham
    • Thomas B. Whaley
    • George Moffett
    • Burnet R. Maybank
    • Baron Holmes
    • Neville Bennett
    • Calhoun Thomas
    • John M. Moorer
    • Edward L. Fishburne
    • William C. Smith
    • D. Gordon Baker
    • Thomas P. Stoney

Scrapbook 3: July 17, 1935 – August 26, 1936

  • Chalreston County Finances
  • Gambling raids in Charleston
  • George H. Moffett indictments
  • Criticism of the Works Progress Administration
  • Governor Olin D. Johnston’s conflicts with the State Highway Department
  • Countercharges of the Highway Department against Johnston’s takeover of the Department
  • Seizure of Highway Department Funds
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visit to Charleston
  • City Council Meeting Minutes
  • Tribute to Architect Robert Mills
  • NAACP Secretary Walter White’s condemnation of Senator James F. Byrnes’ position on the Costigan–Wagner anti–lynching bill
  • The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
  • Attacks against Senator James F. Byrnes for his support of the New Deal
  • Senator Byrnes’ silence on the “Negro issue”
  • The Democratic Primary in Charleston, August 1935
  • Democratic Party primary ballot
  • Democratic Party rolls for the city of Charleston
  • Gardiner H. Walker embezzlement case
  • George Moffett embezzlement case
  • Numerous articles and mentions of the following politicians and persons:
  • Thomas P. Stoney, including a brochure on his positions
    • John C. Long
    • William Schirmer
    • James F. Byrnes
    • George F. Von Kolnitz
    • Chris M. Limehouse
    • Joseph M. Poulnot
    • William C. Harllee
    • George Bell Timmerman

Scrapbook 4: May 13, 1936 – July 18, 1938

  • Santee–Cooper Hydro–electric Project
  • List of elected candidates to various state offices in South Carolina
  • South Carolina’s Democratic Primary and its rules
  • Election day irregularities
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 Presidential victory
  • Burnet R. Maybank’s pass to Union Pier for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s visit to Charleston
  • 1937 Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Governor Olin D. Johnston’s conflict with the State Highway Department
  • Governor Olin D. Johnston’s use of troops to remove Highway Commissioners
  • South Carolina’s Masonic history and celebrations
  • First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to Charleston
  • Charleston Public Library “branch” at Courtenay School
  • Edmund P. Grice, as head of state social workers
  • Legal battle between J. C. Long and city of Charleston for Wagener Terrace properties
  • Charleston’s Democratic Clubs
  • Vice, gambling, and organized crime in South Carolina
  • Numerous articles and political campaign advertisements re:
    • Ben T. Leppard
    • Major Frank Barnwell
    • J. Wilfred D. Zerbst
    • W. Brantley Harvey
    • Thomas W. Young
    • Henry W. Lockwood
    • George E. Grimball
    • A. R. McGowan
    • & others

Scrapbook 5: June 9, 1938 – October 16, 1938

  • Curtailment of Roper Hospital’s service to the poor, and the resulting debate regarding it
  • Gambling raids and Grand Jury indictments, Charleston
  • McClellanville, South Carolina gambling raids
  • South Carolina primary coverage, especially on the gubernatorial candidates
  • List of members of Democratic clubs in Charleston
  • List of poling stations for primaries
  • Issue of voting rights for African Americans in the Democratic primary
  • Protest against Charleston’s reputation for lawlessness
  • Near fistfight of candidates Cotesworth P. Means and Oliver T. Wallace
  • List of South Carolina primary election laws
  • Articles on and numerous mentions of the following:
    • Thomas P. Stoney
    • Ellison D. Smith
    • Ben T. Leppard
    • Olin d. Johnston
    • Chris Limehouse
    • Ben E. Adams
    • Neville Bennett
    • Cole L. Blease
    • Wyndham Manning
    • John Hughes Cooper
    • F. M. Easterlin
    • Edgar A. Brown
    • Burnet R. Maybank
    • D. T. Blackmon
    • Thomas B. Spratt
    • R. E. Hanna
    • J. E. Harley
    • L. Caston Wannamaker

Scrapbook 6: August 11, 1938 – September 6, 1938

  • Failed assassination attempt on Burnet R. Maybank
  • Start of Santee–Cooper Hyrdro–electric Project
  • Coverage of state Democratic primaries, with articles, advertisements, and statements of numerous candidates
  • Promotional tabloid for Burnet R. Maybank
  • Issue of the News Review, endorsed by the South Carolina Federation of Textile Workers, Vol. 9, #34 (August 12, 1938)
  • Promotional tabloid for Edgar A. Brown
  • Primary election coverage, voting tallies and results
  • Gubernatorial primary run–off between Burnet R. Maybank and Ellison “Cotton Ed” Smith
  • WPA writers in South Carolina
  • Numerous articles and political campaign advertisements for:
    • Burnet R. Maybank
    • Edgar Brown
    • Cotesworth P. Means
    • Olin D. Johnston
    • Thomas S. McMillan
    • Ellison D. (“Cotton Ed”) Smith
    • Oliver T. Wallace
    • Russell McGowan
    • T. Ritchie Simmons
    • R. O. Royall
    • Richard C. Morrison
    • Theodore C. Weeks
    • Wyndham M. Manning
    • & others

Scrapbook 7: July 13, 1938 – January 27, 1939

  • Review of Burnet Maybank’s tenure as mayor of Charleston
  • The Grand Jury’s investigation of the 1938 run–off Democratic primary, Judge J. Strom Thurmond officiating
  • Chris M. Limehouse’s disputed election as Clerk of Court
  • Resignation of Governor–elect Maybank as mayor of Charleston
  • Election of Police Chief Henry W. Lockwood as mayor of Charleston
  • Vandalism against property of Charles r. Witt, foreman of the Grand Jury
  • Inaugural preparations for Governor Burnet R. Maybank
  • Recount of ballots in run–off Democratic primary
  • Paroles and pardons by outgoing Governor Olin D. Johnston and the resulting controversy
  • Text of Governor Olin D. Johnston’s farewell address
  • Typhus in the city of Charleston

Scrapbook 8: September 6, 1938 – November 18, 1938

(Title dates on scrapbook span August 1938 – September 1938)

  • Wyndham M. Manning’s charge of lawlessness in Charleston and reactions to it
  • Coverage of the run–off Democratic primary between Wyndham Manning and Burnet R. Maybank for governor
  • Allegations of voting fraud in Charleston
  • Seizure of Charleston County ballots by the Sumter Guard (as ordered by Governor Olin D. Johnston) at Hibernian Hall
  • Charleston County Grand Jury’s probe into voter fraud
  • J. Strom Thurmond’s role as judge, Court of General Sessions
  • Cost of state militia to guard ballots
  • Biographical articles on Burnet R. Maybank and his wife, Elizabeth Myers Maybank
  • Expulsion of Democratic Party officials from Hibernian Hall
  • Inauguration plans for Governor Burnet R. Maybank
  • Harrison Randolph’s report on the College of Charleston
  • South Carolina Conference on Social Work, meeting in Columbia, SC

Scrapbook 9: January 1, 1939 – January 18, 1939

Excerpts from various newspapers re: the inauguration of Burnet R. Maybank as Governor

Excerpts from the “Inaugural Edition” of the News & Courier (January 16–17, 1939) with information on the following:

  • Governor Burnet R. Maybank’s Inauguration
  • History of St. Andrews Society
  • Governor Burnet R. Maybank’s Inaugural Address
  • List of South Carolina Governors up to Burnet R. Maybank
  • List of Charleston–born Governors
  • Profile of the Charleston County School System
  • Pictures of inauguration ceremony
  • Business and other advertisements congratulating Governor Burnet R. Maybank and wishing him well
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • History of notable alumni of the College of Charleston

Scrapbook 10: October 28, 1939 – February 12, 1941

  • Public relief in Charleston
  • Creation of the “Jeffersonian” Democratic Party (to support Republican Wendell Willkie against Franklin D. Roosevelt for president)
  • Anti–Roosevelt, and anti–three term, sentiments
  • News & Courier’s commitment to the white only primary
  • Coverage of 1939 primaries and general election in Charleston and South Carolina
  • Resignation of Charles Middleton, Police Commissioner
  • Middleton’s accusations of police involvement in the Democratic Primary
  • Democratic Primary contest between Alfred H. Von Kolnitz and L. Mendel Rivers for Congress
  • Resignation of Mrs. Marie G. Jones, head of South Carolina State Industrial School for Girls
  • Establishment of a Republican Party office in Charleston and vandalism to it
  • Shifting blame for the lack of a permanent jail in Charleston County
  • Prohibition as an issue in the general election
  • Creation of draft boards in South Carolina
  • Expansion of Roper Hospital
  • The sinking fund, bond issues, and the Charleston Port Utilities Commission
  • Articles on the political careers of:
    • Lionel K. Legge
    • B. Allston Moore
    • Harry J. O’Neill (township commissioner, Sullivans Island)
    • John F. Seignous
    • & others

Scrapbook 11: July 1, 1940 – July 31, 1941

  • South Carolina Department of Public Welfare, its programs, staff, and problems
  • Charleston County Department of Public Welfare
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps in South Carolina
  • Roper Hospital expansion
  • Roper Hospital budgetary demands
  • Federal Food Stamp programs for surplus and other foodstuffs
  • Typhoid inoculations in Charleston
  • Civil Service and WPA jobs
  • Construction of Naval Hospital in Charleston
  • Mary Jane Ross estate court ruling and Roper Hospital
  • Naming of a new Charleston County Auditor
  • Social work and public welfare in Charleston
  • Public begging in Charleston
  • Pinehaven Tuberculosis Sanatorium

 

Series IV: Postal, 1946 – 1959

Scrapbook 1: September 27, 1946 – March 19, 1949

  • Edmund P. Grice as acting postmaster of Charleston
  • Christmas press of mail
  • Dedication of Avondale post office, with program and clippings
  • Request for North Charleston post office
  • Republicans fight for state jobs under Democrats
  • Stolen post office safe in Myers (Charleston, SC)
  • Edmund P. Grice and his confirmation
  • Postal Supervisors Convention
  • Thefts from local post offices
  • Windermere mail delivery
  • Unauthorized investigation of Charleston post office
  • Robert J. Berry appointed postmaster of Bowman, SC
  • Jessie M. Donaldson, new United States Postmaster General
  • List of Charleston’s Postal Zones
  • Post card of post office in Grimshawes, North Carolina
  • SC delegation of National Association of Letter Carriers refuses to seat black member
  • New post office for North Area in Charleston, Sc
  • Edition of the Five Sixty Six Reporter Vol. III, No. 5, May 1948 (newsletter of local postal union)
  • Grice’s refusal to deliver mail in Cedar Court, considered a health menace
  • Postmen vote against disloyalty by “subversive elements”
  • Development of air mail for parcels in Charleston area
  • Dorchester Waylyn development
  • History of “Weyman’s Folly”, Charlotte and Meeting Streets, Charleston, and articles re: its destruction for a proposed new post office
  • Profile of South Carolina mail carrier Gene Mays
  • Clippings of weddings, funerals, appointments, and miscellaneous other events re: postal service employees and their families

Scrapbook 2: March 17, 1949 – January 12, 1950

  • Postal employee conventions (including programs and other materials re: South Carolina Postmaster Convention in Charleston)
  • Shelving of plans for new Charleston post office
  • Local leaders’ condemnation of screening African Americans moving to Washington, DC
  • Opening of South Carolina’s first industrial exposition
  • Rent control in Charleston
  • Mrs. Preston Speed Marchant, postmistress and fire chief of Caesar’s Head, SC
  • Postal rate increase
  • Postal employee and golf champion Moultrie McKevlin
  • An issue of the Postal Bulletin November 10, 1949, Vol. LXX, No. 19283
  • J. G. Thomas retires after 30 years of Charleston postal service
  • Dissolving of North Area Businessmen’s group
  • Permanent spotlight on St. Michael’s steeple
  • Various clippings re: weddings, funerals, appointments, and other events re: postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 3: January 11, 1950 – December 7, 1950

  • 1949 Postal Zone guide, Charleston, SC
  • Debate for a new railroad station for Charleston, SC
  • Hibernian Society Officers
  • Photographs of installation of officers in local postal union
  • Cooper River District (north area) of Charleston, SC
  • Reductions in local mail service
  • Henry, SC post office (Williamsburg County)
  • Beta Sigma Phi Council officers
  • Post office employee and golfer Moultrie McKevlin
  • Profile of Maier Triest
  • Charleston Knights of Columbus officers installation
  • Highway post office delivery for Florence, SC
  • Charleston house numbering system
  • Death of former sheriff Joseph M. Poulnot
  • Various clippings re: marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events re: postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 4: December 6, 1950 – May 2, 1951

  • “Highway Post Office” between Charleston and Augusta, GA
  • Post office officials at opening of Walterboro, SC post office
  • Crescent Beach post mistress and family
  • Effects of railroad strike on mail delivery
  • Golf victories of postal worker Moultrie McKevlin
  • New post office garage, corner Cumberland and State Streets, Charleston
  • Charleston’s 6th annual Invitational Golf Tournament
  • Postal rate rise
  • Hibernian Society banquet
  • Melvin Purvis’ new job on Senate Civil Service committee
  • South Carolina State Postmasters League Convention
  • Collections of stamps with Bible scenes
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 5: May 11, 1951 – January 28, 1952

  • Edmund P. Grice elected vice president of South Carolina Postmasters
  • Program and clippings re: postmaster convention, Greenville, SC
  • Naming of Charleston’s North Area post office
  • Stamp collection of David Kohn
  • Numerous appointments to postmastership throughout the US
  • News articles on golfer Moultrie McKevlin
  • Charleston airport improvements
  • Text of Truman’s address to postmasters
  • Programs from the 47th Annual National Convention of Postmasters
  • Leesvilee, SC Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon convicted of mail fraud
  • Real estate and rent control debate in Charleston
  • Articles re: postal history in Charleston
  • Growth and development and naming of North Charleston
  • Stamp honoring the Marquis de Lafayette
  • Retirement of Charleston postman James Wieters Brawley
  • Collapse of building at 49 Queen Street, Charleston
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 6: January 27, 1952 – August 6, 1952

  • Kingstree, SC post office receives a first class rating
  • Moultrie McKevlin’s golf victories
  • Melvin Purvis’ report on federal patronage jobs
  • Post office development in North Charleston
  • Ellenton, SC removal for H–Bomb plant
  • History of postage stamps
  • Hibernian Society’s new president, Matthew P. Halloran
  • Issuing of commemorative Marquis de Lafayette stamp in Georgetown, SC
  • Gallivant’s Ferry (Horry County) post office history
  • Phosphate mining company in Lamb, Sc
  • Marquis de Lafayette celebration in Georgetown
  • Duplication of street numbers in Charleston, SC
  • Invitation to ceremonies in Georgetown, SC and first day issue of Lafayette stamp
  • Myers, SC post office
  • “Highway Post Office” route between Columbia and Charleston, SC
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 7: August 9, 1952 – January 9, 1954

  • South Carolina postal clerks convention
  • Melvin Purvis’ expose of waste in the Federal Government
  • Extension of Market Street in Charleston
  • Renaming Charleston streets
  • Loyless Limehouse, mayor and postmaster, Ladson, SC
  • Poison candy mailing charge against Denmark, SC woman
  • Postmaster General Summerfield plans for U.S. Post Office overhaul
  • Opening of North Charleston post office
  • Charleston Heights post office
  • Charleston Census figures
  • Gen. Charles Summerall head inspector for the Scottish Rite Masons
  • Confusing street names in Charleston
  • Article re: French mail by Warrington Dawson
  • Former Alcolu, SC postmaster convicted of theft
  • Decentralization of the postal service
  • Trial and acquittal of Gerard Herzog for post office appointments
  • Retirement of Charleston assistant postmaster H. H. Cochran
  • Appointment of J. Gorman Thomas, assistant postmaster, Charleston
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 8: January 8, 1954 – March 10,1955

  • Aerial view of Marion Square
  • Discussions of postal wage and U.S. pay raise
  • Proposal to rebuild Charleston’s railroad Union Station
  • Sentencing in Denmark, SC case of mailing poisoned candy
  • 27 arrested for mail fraud in Grover, SC (Dorchester County)
  • South Carolina Postmasters Convention
  • Retirement of postal worker William M. S. Lesesne
  • Designs for new railroad station, Charleston
  • Growth of South Windermere area, Charleston
  • Chain letter schemes in South Carolina
  • Building of north bridge over the Ashley River, Charleston
  • Gift of W. Somerset Maugham’s mail box to Beaufort, SC library
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 9: March 3, 1955 – November 27, 1955

  • Atlanta Journal–Constitution story of SC poisoned candy case
  • Obscene materials and the US mail
  • Senator Olin D. Johnston’s role in the US postal affairs
  • Senate’s refusal to confirm Floyd C. Hammond as Myrtle Beach postmaster
  • Dedication of Medical College Hospital, Charleston
  • Design and building of new railroad station, Charleston, SC
  • Postmaster’s Convention
  • West of the Ashley development
  • Discovery of British cannon in downtown Charleston
  • Retirement of George C. Rogers, superintendent of Charleston city schools
  • Development of new Charleston subdivisions
  • Wentworth Street zoning action
  • Charleston’s “dead letters”
  • Building of north bridge across the Ashley River, Charleston, SC
  • History of Sardinia, Sc post office
  • Rezoning of Wentworth Street
  • Charleston Municipal Yacht Basin
  • Charleston’s defense against tides
  • Charleston zoning law bill
  • Clarence Brown’s retirement from US Customs Service
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 10: October 2, 1955 – August 5, 1956

  • Mount Pleasant mail delivery
  • Delaying tactics on Charleston’s zoning bill
  • Demand for a new Federal Office Building in Charleston
  • Crash of mail air plane in Hollywood, SC
  • Construction of new railroad passenger station in Charleston
  • 1955 year in review in Charleston
  • Master plan for Charleston rezoning
  • Charleston North Area population increase
  • Consolidation of Charleston and its suburbs
  • Theft of C. Stewart Dawson stamp collection
  • Mount Pleasant street name changes
  • Proposal to raze Charleston’s Customs House and its defeat
  • Proposals to make Charleston’s streets one way
  • Growth of James Island subdivisions
  • Charleston Municipal Yacht Basin
  • Sentences in Grover, SC mail fraud case
  • Rezoning of Wentworth Street, for McAlister Funeral Home
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 11: December 8, 1957 – January 31, 1959

  • Burton, SC post office
  • Johnsonville, SC post office
  • St. Stephen, SC post office
  • Elevator in Charleston’s federal building
  • Postal pay hike
  • Postmen and dogs
  • Beaufort, SC post office
  • Extension of mail on James Island
  • Donald Burch, Cheraw postmaster
  • New post office vehicles
  • Life on Daufuskie Island
  • Postal Code of Ethics
  • Flower vendors at Charleston’s mail post office
  • Extension of East Cooper mail delivery
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

Scrapbook 12: January 9, 1959 – December 12, 1959

  • Integration attempts at Charleston Municipal Golf Course
  • Buildings of the St. Andrews shopping center
  • Charleston North Area post office site
  • Isle of Palms mail delivery
  • Preservation of the Bennett Rice Mill
  • Wadmalaw Island post office theft
  • First day of issue covers for stamps honoring Charleston based ships
  • Crescent Beach, SC post office dedication
  • St. Andrews Parish post office
  • Interstate highway route recommendations
  • Children and pornography in Charleston
  • Availability of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover in Charleston
  • Ben Tillman housing project in North Charleston
  • History of Scottish Rite Masonry and profile of Albert Pike
  • Costs of mail fraud
  • List of South Carolina’s past post offices
  • Clippings of marriages, deaths, appointments, and other events involving postal employees and their families

 

Series V: Public Relief, 1933 – 1941

Scrapbook 1: April 26, 1933 – May 20, 1933

  • Organization of Forestry Corps at Fort Moultrie
  • Relief money
  • Construction of Charleston County Fair building
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans
  • Santee–Cooper hydro–electric project
  • Proposed student activities hall at College of Charleston
  • Death of Richard C. Rhett
  • Plans for education of unemployed citizens
  • Unfavorable engineering report of Edisto flood plan
  • Creation of municipal swimming pool

Scrapbook 2: May 20, 1933 – August 10, 1933

  • Fort Moultrie and forestry camp life
  • Presidential Task Force to battle Great Depression
  • Charleston Mayor Burnet R. Maybank and Works Projects Administration (WPA) Projects
  • 21.7 million for State Relief–SC $500,000 share
  • Open camps for jobless women in New York State
  • Georgia aid to South Carolina WPA Projects
  • 300,000 acres to be purchased for reforestation work by U.S. Government
  • Eating habits of WPA workers
  • 120 WPA projects for South Carolina
  • Robert Fetchner and labor issues
  • Pinehaven tuberculosis sanatorium
  • Bridge project for Georgetown County
  • Blacks fight for equal pay

Index Available

Scrapbook 3: August 10, 1933 – September 22, 1933

  • Constitutionality of National Relief Administration (NRA) Codes
  • Charleston City charter crisis
  • Charleston City pool project
  • Public Works dedication on August 21, 1933
  • Nazi version of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camps
  • Bootleg trouble in forest camps
  • Hobos convention support NRA plan
  • People once well off, now seek relief
  • J. Albert Von Dohlen and Emergency Relief Act (ERA)
  • Relief funds and rural school teachers
  • South Carolina State Hospital solicits million dollars
  • Charleston Naval Yard seeks $100,000 to maintain work
  • 350 women workers rally at Francis Marion Hotel
  • Edisto Blacks seek equal pay
  • J. C. Long on higher taxes to create more jobs
  • Black swimming pool projects

Index Available

Scrapbook 4: September 22, 1933 – November 22, 1933

  • Navy Yard pay raise
  • Burnet R. Maybank resigns from two boards
  • Charleston food prices compared to U.S. range
  • Relief complaints prompt inquiry
  • Work and salary census launched
  • Housing development in Charleston
  • Harold Ickes and Congressional allotment
  • Farm Credit Agency
  • Building grants for Charleston housing program
  • College night school program for CCC men
  • Red Cross relief work
  • Santee–Cooper canal project
  • Blacks employed as agricultural instructors

Index Available

Scrapbook 5: November 22, 1933 – January 27, 1934

  • Ohio relief and allotment abuse probe
  • Infrastructure allotments for South Carolina
  • Aviation Base in Charleston
  • Charleston Code Council and Charleston retail merchants
  • Dry cleaners and price wars
  • Work Reform and city grocers
  • Black/White job problems
  • Alfred E. Smith and relief plans
  • Charleston Yacht Basin Project
  • Navy Yard repairs and improvement
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • Albert Simons and National Architectural Committee
  • Reid Street tidal outlet
  • Charleston SC–Portsmouth VA co–op
  • Charleston–Winyah Bay Waterway Project
  • Berkeley County forest purchase
  • National deficit estimates
  • Black prosperity under New Deal
  • United States Government and Cuban relief

Index Available

Scrapbook 6: January 27, 1934 – April 6, 1934

  • Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Public Improvement
  • Dr. David Ramsey House history
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • Charleston/National food prices compared
  • Wages and sharecropper victimization
  • Partisan bickering in CWA
  • Diphtheria to be wiped out
  • Army purchasing scandal
  • Jobless march on London
  • Malaria eradication project
  • CWA job cuts
  • Work reform for laundry business
  • Beach erosion project
  • Women wage equality and NRA

Index Available

Scrapbook 7: April 6, 1934 – June 14, 1934

  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • Restaurant Code Authority
  • Beach erosion survey
  • Roosevelt and 1.5 billion new relief grant
  • Aerial pictures of Charleston
  • City bond program
  • Charleston milk survey
  • Oyster bed replenishment
  • Barber code reform
  • McLeod Hospital Project
  • Citadel campus
  • Dredges and Intercoastal Waterway
  • City incinerator project
  • Birthrate increasing among poor

Index Available

Scrapbook 8: June 15, 1934 – September 5, 1934

  • J. M. Keynes and NRA effectiveness
  • NRA comparison to Fascism
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • Ford Company loses fight with NRA
  • Duke Power protest
  • Fixed cigarette prices
  • Mt. Pleasant water bonds
  • 14.4 million to fix SC roads
  • Mussolini and Harry Hopkins meeting
  • Low food rates in Charleston
  • Production cuts and price regulation
  • Folly Beach erosion
  • NRA 45 million price tag

Index Available

Scrapbook 9: September 6, 1934 – November 29, 1934

  • College of Charleston given federal aid
  • Bank loans for business and industry
  • Citadel students and federal aid
  • Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and local business leaders
  • Yacht Basin Project
  • PWA aid to Virgin Islands
  • Drive to register babies and births
  • Federal deficit soars
  • 9 million in allotments to South Carolina farmers
  • Copies of old wills for Charleston County Public Library
  • Transients and veterans aid in relief programs

Index Available

Scrapbook 10: November 30, 1934 – February 8, 1935

  • Edisto Park plan
  • Santee Dam
  • Red Cross and the New Deal
  • Roosevelt’s agenda for 1935
  • Crop results of 1934
  • Eliza Lucas Hall and veterans camp
  • Charleston incinerator plan
  • Gov. Olin D. Johnston inaugural speech highlights
  • Yacht Basin Project
  • Ridgeland High School auditorium project
  • Planters Hotel and Dock Street Theatre restoration
  • Historical Commission and public relations

Index Available

Scrapbook 11: February 9, 1935 – April 16, 1935

  • Admiral Cary T. Grayson and the Red Cross
  • Yacht Basin Project
  • ERA school building project
  • Planters Hotel and Dock Street Theatre projects
  • Congressional bills and New Deal
  • Golf courses and athletic fields built by Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
  • Meningitis breakout
  • School building survey
  • Azalea Festival
  • Rural Electrification Act

Scrapbook 12: April 17, 1935 – June 20, 1935

  • Airport project
  • Cannery and canning project
  • CCC Rulings
  • Sharecroppers’ plight
  • Relief wage rates
  • Edisto projects
  • Alaska colonization project
  • Rockville Highway project
  • Santee–Cooper project
  • Social Security Act

Index Available

Scrapbook 13: June 20, 1935 – July 21, 1935

  • Banking bill
  • Charleston County Auditorium project
  • Navy Yard and Public Works Project
  • Social Security System
  • Forestry work
  • Inheritance tax rates
  • New Deal and historical research projects
  • Pinehaven sanitarium enlargement project
  • Processing tax suits
  • Rural Electrification projects
  • Rockville Highway project

Scrapbook 14: July 22, 1935 – September 11, 1935

  • Air Base allotment
  • Airport project
  • Census project
  • Citadel and CCC projects
  • White collar jobs for blacks
  • FERA liquidation

Scrapbook 15: September 11, 1935 – November 19, 1935

  • Forest fire prevention methods
  • On the art of cussing
  • Allotments for State Parks
  • Housing projects
  • Kingstree and Public Works Act (PWA)
  • Rural rehabilitation
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • South Carolina illiteracy
  • Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and Charleston slums
  • Dock Street Theatre and Planters Hotel projects
  • Pinehaven Sanitorium Project
  • South Carolina Road projects
  • Rural electrification

Index Available

Scrapbook 16: November 17, 1935 – March 11, 1936

  • Air Force Base allotment
  • Airport canal project
  • Census work project
  • Citadel project
  • Charleston housing projects
  • List of New Deal Project in South Carolina
  • Sanitary and drainage projects
  • School bond issues
  • Social Security plan
  • State Welfare agency
  • Waterworks projects

Index Available

Scrapbook 17: March 8, 1936 – July 23, 1936

  • Airport plan progress
  • Sanitation problems and control
  • Democratic Convention and New Deal
  • Dock Street Theatre Project
  • Drought aid and South Carolina
  • Flood control and money allotment
  • School insurance increases
  • Unemployment compensation

Index Available

Scrapbook 18: July 23, 1936 – January 3, 1937

  • Rockville road
  • Dock Street Theatre Project
  • Drought
  • City incinerator project
  • Public Works Administration (PWA) Housing Act
  • CCC and young ages (17–19)
  • Citadel Chapel cornerstone ceremonies
  • Social Security board
  • Charleston theater project
  • Charleston National Home Show
  • Dorchester County hospital project
  • Sewage and drain project
  • Folly Beach waterworks
  • Legality of Santee–Cooper
  • City waterworks expansion

Index Available

Scrapbook 19: January 4, 1937 – June 28, 1937

  • Airport project
  • Artist Laura Douglas and New Deal
  • Roosevelt message to 75th Congress
  • FDR budget plans
  • Dock Street Theatre project
  • Trans–Atlantic Air Mail Bill
  • Johnson–Hagood Stadium improvements
  • Road inspections
  • West Point Mill Terminal
  • Malaria battle
  • Juvenile crime prevention
  • Berkeley jail plans

Scrapbook 20: June 6, 1937 – September 3, 1937

  • Restaurant project for Dock Street Theatre
  • Relief bill passage
  • C. W. Jenkins
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • Walter F. Livingston and WPA Housing
  • Columbia, SC and fixed rental rates
  • Jobless Women appeal to city
  • Airport project
  • Rockville Highway project
  • McClellanville CCC camp
  • Ashley River Channel Project
  • $257,000 grant and Citadel expansion
  • Edisto Aqueduct
  • Athletic Field project
  • E. P. Grice and WPA duties
  • Potato production plan
  • Do You Know Your Charleston “Old Citadel”
  • Charleston District Welfare Report
  • Roosevelt fireside chat
  • Dorchester County hospital project

Scrapbook 21: October 7, 1937 – April 26, 1938

  • Welfare Agency Survey
  • Navy Yard project
  • Roper building program
  • Edward D. Clement and Housing Engineer
  • Barnwell Home service project
  • Old Jail and Jenkins Orphanage to be razed
  • Santee–Cooper project
  • College of Charleston student activities center
  • Taxes taking lion’s share of salaries
  • Colleton County supply bill
  • Admiral Henry V. Butler and Naval Yard
  • Anti–lynching bill and Walter White
  • Rural road project list
  • Roosevelt and higher Southern salaries
  • J. D. Padgett and Relief Work
  • Santee River Dam
  • New Monroe Doctrine

Scrapbook 22: May 12, 1938 – August 19, 1938

  • Roosevelt’s recovery plan
  • Fort Moultrie Basin
  • Charleston Orphan House
  • Santee–Cooper Project
  • Charleston Orphan Chapel
  • Wage Act
  • Social Work Conference
  • Harry L. Hopkins and WPA
  • Federal Reserve Board
  • Santee Canal
  • City sewer works
  • New hourly–wage proposal
  • Waterway improvement
  • Income tax increase
  • Welfare Act
  • Navy Yard projects
  • Cainhoy Bridge

Scrapbook 23: June 9, 1938 – January 29, 1939

  • Jail and Jenkins Orphanage
  • New telephone extension
  • Sullivan’s Island fire protection
  • Yacht Basin plan
  • Street car change
  • Thomas W. Perry and Zoning Board
  • New uptown public market
  • Junior League and Child Welfare Program
  • Razing of Old Medical College
  • Records of Grace Episcopal Church
  • Sales tax debate in South Carolina
  • Harry O. Strohecker and $510, 000 Plan
  • Arrangements for President Roosevelt’s Charleston visit
  • College of Charleston Student Activities Center

Scrapbook 24: July 21, 1938 – November 23, 1938

  • City airport
  • Dock Street Theatre
  • Housing projects
  • Radio station licenses
  • Pinehaven Sanitorium project
  • New Jenkins Orphanage
  • Social Security plan
  • Red Cross and New Deal
  • Navy Yard and New Deal projects
  • Santee–Cooper development

Index Available

Scrapbook 25: August 25, 1938 – January 6, 1939

  • Santee–Cooper project
  • Charleston County Housing projects
  • Yacht Basin project

Index Available

Scrapbook 26

October 7, 1938 – February 25, 1941

Note: This scrapbook is arranged backwards; later dates in front and earlier dates in back.

  • City officials elected
  • Year in review
  • Population increase
  • Citizens and Southern National Bank Statement
  • Gas tax
  • Budget recommendations
  • Folly Road toll
  • Population figures of counties, cities, towns in South Carolina
  • Garbage laws
  • Ways and Means proposals and comparative tables
  • City Hall project
  • Yacht Basin project

Scrapbook 27: January 9, 1939 – February 7, 1939

  • Jail project
  • Farm tenants and highway expansion
  • Airport expansion
  • President Roosevelt’s visit to Charleston
  • Navy Yard allotments
  • University of South Carolina pool
  • Santee–Cooper project
  • Housing project in Charleston
  • Washington Park project
  • City sewer system
  • Berkeley Road improvements
  • Welfare grants

Scrapbook 28: December 1, 1939 – June 20, 1940

  • Airport projects
  • Road and bridge projects
  • New city playground
  • Malaria control
  • Competitive wage rates
  • Welfare drafts budget 1940–1941
  • New Naval Armory
  • Six Mile community housing project
  • South Carolina and illiteracy
  • WPA projects
  • Standard of living
  • Charleston jail project
  • Cannon Street work projects
  • Charleston sewer project

Scrapbook 29: June 16, 1940 – October 10, 1940

  • Housing projects
  • Welfare eligibility
  • Food stamp plan
  • Cainhoy Road project
  • Parris Island barracks
  • Cannon Street work projects
  • Roosevelt’s nomination acceptance speech
  • New Charleston County High Schools
  • South Carolina power line
  • National Youth Program
  • County Bonded Debt
  • Blacks object to White–only primaries
  • Jail project
  • Naval Yard money
  • Florence, SC home for crippled children
  • Red Cross help
  • Col. F. C. Harrington and WPA
  • Plans for center for black girls
  • Pinopolis Dam plans

Scrapbook 30: August 1940

  • Hurricane of August 1940

Scrapbook 31: October 1, 1940 – January 31, 1941

  • Charleston County auditorium project
  • National Defense at Charleston
  • Food stamp plan
  • Draft Board quotas
  • Parris Island work
  • Cotton farmers allotment
  • Highway Construction Department
  • Wendall Wilkie and end of two–party system
  • Food Stamp Act
  • Jail project
  • Courthouse project
  • New life to old jail
  • Santee–Cooper project
  • 120 million and South Carolina national defense
  • Roosevelt’s third term

Scrapbook 32: February 1, 1941 – May 21, 1941

  • Child Bureau abolishment called for
  • Santee–Cooper project
  • Folly Beach Town Hall
  • Housing project
  • Army Hospital project
  • Relief taxes and costs
  • Charleston Airport business
  • Santee–Cooper annual report
  • City school system
  • Navy Yard program
  • Granville Bastion project
  • County Hall
  • Beaufort beautification
  • Welfare plan
  • Colleton County Courthouse
  • Allendale County school
  • John Island school
  • Paving Charleston’s streets