Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Business (2)
- Cultural History (2)
- Social History (2)
- United States History (2)
- Agribusiness (1)
-
- Animal Studies (1)
- Creative Writing (1)
- Education (1)
- English Language and Literature (1)
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (1)
- Fiction (1)
- Finance and Financial Management (1)
- Higher Education (1)
- Jewish Studies (1)
- Medicine and Health (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Public Health (1)
- Public Health Education and Promotion (1)
- Real Estate (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Sociology (1)
- Tourism and Travel (1)
- Women's History (1)
- Yiddish Language and Literature (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in History
Jessie Huey Laurence Papers - Accession 5, Jessie Huey Laurence
Jessie Huey Laurence Papers - Accession 5, Jessie Huey Laurence
Manuscript Collection
The Jessie Huey Laurence Papers primarily consist of correspondence, but also included are speeches, program notes, minutes, financial records, photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks relating to her role in the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs (1928-1937); her promotion of a compulsory school attendance bill for South Carolina (1934-1936); the formation of the South Carolina Council for the Common Good (1935); Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Public Works Administration (PWA) projects in South Carolina; and her interest in the Catawba Indians of York County, as chairman of Indian Affairs Committee for the Catawba Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. …
Nathan Asch Papers - Accession 344, Nathan Asch
Nathan Asch Papers - Accession 344, Nathan Asch
Manuscript Collection
The Nathan Asch Papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and financial papers, published short works of Nathan Asch, book reviews, unpublished manuscripts, notes, photographs, clippings, and a tape recording of the novelist. There is exclusive correspondence with many literary personalities including Malcolm Cowley, Josephine Herbst, James Farrell, Morley Callaghan, Stefan Zweig, Sholem Asch, Doris Lessing, Hart Crane, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, John Dos Passos, and Ford Madox Ford. There is also information pertaining to his work with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and his service in the US Army Corps during World War II.
Thomas Family Papers - Accession 147, Thomas Family
Thomas Family Papers - Accession 147, Thomas Family
Manuscript Collection
The Thomas Family Papers are a valuable source of information concerning family life in Rock Hill, S.C. during the period 1920-1945. The collection includes diaries, Thomas Tours brochures, newspaper clippings speeches, financial and estate records, genealogies, menus, photographs, memorabilia and an extensive body of correspondence comprising the largest part of the collection. Dr. Roy Zachariah Thomas brought his family to Rock Hill when he assumed the position of professor of Chemistry at Winthrop College in 1914. The correspondence in the collection traces the growth of the Thomas family and the tour business, Thomas Tours, Inc., that Dr. Thomas founded in …
Charles Lonergan Cobb Papers - Accession 11, Charles Lonergan Cobb
Charles Lonergan Cobb Papers - Accession 11, Charles Lonergan Cobb
Manuscript Collection
The Charles Lonergan Cobb Papers consists mainly of correspondence but also includes photographs, biographical material, magazine and newspaper clippings, all relating to Cobb's career as a banker at People's National Bank( 1905-1949); and the People's National Bank and Trust Company(1949-1953) in Rock Hill, SC as well as his association with Winthrop College as a Board of Trustees' member(1938-1953). Subjects include, railroad cotton shipping service to South Carolina mill towns, crop loans in the early 1920s, location of the Celanese Chemical Plant in Rock Hill, the Winthrop College Board of Trustees, and a1946 article about Cobb that appeared in the Saturday …