King Street In Charleston, 1925 | History Of SC Slide Collection
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King Street in Charleston, looking north around 1925. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Find out about some of the places you can visit in different areas of our state...that are not all that far away! Enjoy your travels!
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King Street in Charleston, looking north around 1925. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
The promenade on the East Battery, Charleston, in 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
The ruins of the Circular Congregational Church, photographed in 1865, show the devastation that fire and war brought on the city of Charleston. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Photo
This birds-eye view of Charleston, drawn and engraved in 1853, was widely reproduced in "Harper's Illustrated Weekly" for the next decade; it became the visual image most outsiders had of what the...Photo
The artist James Audubon (see John James Audubon) first came to Charleston in late October of 1831, and was so welcomed by its citizens, particularly the Reverend John Bachman (see John Bachman) that...Photo
This small engraving showing a faded sketch of the "Old Market and Court House, 1836" was probably copied from an earlier sketch of Camden as it appeared around 1820. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana...Photo
The town of Camden was one of the first official settlements to be laid out in the interior of South Carolina in the 1730s. Settlers flooded into the backcountry during the quarter century of peace...Photo
Camden's Main Street, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.Photo
The Kershaw County Courthouse was designed by famed South Carolina architect Robert Mills and built in 1826. The original courthouse had Ionic columns; local citizens, who wanted a more "modern"...Photo
Pelicans nest in the Cape Romain Wildlife Refuge on Bulls Island in 1944. Photo by William Baldwin for the U.S. Biological Survey. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.