The Main Building of Claflin College | History of SC Slide Collection

The Main Building of Claflin College, photographed by Francis Benjamin Johnston in 1899.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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History of SC Slide Collection / J. Important Institutions in South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection / A. Educational Institutions

South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute, Barhamville | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute, Barhamville | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute in Barhamville, just north of the city of Columbia, was opened in 1829 to offer women a higher education. It was sketched in about 1860 by M. Dovilliers, who...

The Camden Male Academy | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Camden Male Academy | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Camden Male Academy was conducted as a semi-military academy, training young men in martial skills by Charles H. Peek in Camden from 1859 until his death in 1863. Many of the cadets, shown here in...

Original Building of the Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Original Building of the Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

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The original building of the Penn School photographed around 1890. The Penn School, located on St. Helena's Island, was the first school for freed African-Americans opened by northerners in the South...

The Avery Institute in Charleston | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Avery Institute in Charleston | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Avery Institute in Charleston. The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association in the spring of 1865, and initially named after the New York abolitionist Lewis...

First Graded School in St. Matthews | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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First Graded School in St. Matthews | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The first graded school in St. Matthews, photographed around 1910. A campaign to improve rural schools in the late 19th century replaced many one-room schools, in which all students were taught by a...

Booker T. Washington High School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Booker T. Washington High School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Booker T. Washington High School, Class of 1933, seated on the lawn in front of the main entrance to the school. Founded in 1916, the school was, until its closing in 1974, the hub of the separate...

Elementary School Class at Everett School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Elementary School Class at Everett School | History of SC Slide Collection

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An elementary school class at the Everett School in Winnsboro completes a class project in the 1950s. The Everett School was built in the Winnsboro Mills village in 1922. There had been a one-room...

The Chappelle Administration Building Of Allen University | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Chappelle Administration Building Of Allen University | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Chappelle Administration Building of Allen University, photographed by Richard S. Roberts in 1922, shortly after its construction. A school organized and run by African-Americans, it was...

Main Building of Anderson College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Main Building of Anderson College | History of SC Slide Collection

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The main building of Anderson College. Founded as Johnson Female Seminary in 1848, the school was later adopted by the Saluda Baptist Association, which planned to begin a Baptist institution for...

Benedict College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Benedict College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Founded in 1870 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Benedict College occupies a twenty-acre campus on Harden Street in Columbia, across Taylor Street from Allen University. As an important...

Dargan's School in Darlington | History of SC Slide Collection

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Dargan's School in Darlington | History of SC Slide Collection

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John J. Dargan was the principal and a teacher, and Gena Dargan a teacher, in Dargan's School in Darlington, photographed May 18, 1899.

Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The student body of Winyah School poses in front of the Winyah Indigo Society Hall, corner of Prince and Cannon Streets in Georgetown, on a warm spring day around 1900. The substantial profits made by...

Taylor Street School in Columbia | History of SC Slide Collection

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Taylor Street School in Columbia | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Taylor Street School in Columbia, around 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Murchison High School in Bennettsville | History of SC Slide Collection

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Murchison High School in Bennettsville | History of SC Slide Collection

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Murchison High School in Bennettsville, around 1910. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.

Students Form Confederate Flag | History of SC Slide Collection

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Students Form Confederate Flag | History of SC Slide Collection

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A group of school children visited Columbia on Lee-Jackson Day in January around 1910. Dressed in the appropriate colors, they formed the Confederate flag on the steps of the South Carolina State...

Loulie Shand's Kindergarten Class | History of SC Slide Collection

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Loulie Shand's Kindergarten Class | History of SC Slide Collection

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Loulie Shand's kindergarten class, Columbia, early in the 20th century. Photographer Walter L. Blanchard's daughter Ruth is the first girl on the right. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Unnamed African-American School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Unnamed African-American School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 17

The junior class and the fourth grade of an unnamed African-American school in Chester, around 1912.

School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection

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School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 18

This one-room school on Coosaw Island was taught by a Penn School graduate in the 1920s. A Penn School faculty member wrote a note on the back of the photograph, "It is to such conditions that our...

Interior of the Mather School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Interior of the Mather School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 19

The interior of the Mather School auditorium around 1940. Mather School was founded in 1868 in Beaufort by Mrs. Rachel Crane Mather of Boston, and was operated after 1882 by the Women's Baptist Home...

West Florence High School Cafeteria | History of SC Slide Collection

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West Florence High School Cafeteria | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 20

West Florence High School cafeteria, 1970. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 21

In 1890, the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina purchased the Hampton-Preston Mansion on Blanding Street from the Ursuline Sisters who had used it as a convent since the end of the war, and...

Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 22

Converse College, Spartanburg, in 1909. Converse owes its name and its existence to D.E. Converse, a textile manufacturer from Massachusetts who came to Spartanburg in 1856. Believing that "the well...

The Citadel in 1904 | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Citadel in 1904 | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Citadel in 1904. Its name is derived from the institution's origin in a fortress built to protect Charleston from slave uprisings. In the 1820s, after the Denmark Vesey plot of 1822...

Citadel Cadets in Dormitory Rooms | History of SC Slide Collection

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Citadel Cadets in Dormitory Rooms | History of SC Slide Collection

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Citadel Cadets show one of the dormitory rooms in the original campus, with mattresses neatly stacked in storage shelves, 1898-1902. The Citadel moved from its downtown campus to a new 200-acre campus...

Claflin University | History of SC Slide Collection

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Claflin University | History of SC Slide Collection

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Claflin University, an engraving from Colyer Meriwether's "History of Higher Education in South Carolina," published in 1889. The Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church founded...

Clemson University | History of SC Slide Collection

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Clemson University | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 27

Clemson University was founded in 1889 after Thomas Green Clemson, the son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, gave $80,000 and 814 acres of his estate for the creation of an agricultural college. The state...

Clemson University Library | History of SC Slide Collection

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Clemson University Library | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 28

Clemson University, an interior view of the Library taken by the WPA in the 1930s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Aerial View of Clemson Stadium | History of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial View of Clemson Stadium | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 29

An aerial view of Clemson stadium, around 1960. Alumni, parents, and supporters of Clemson's football team come from all over the state for home games, as illustrated by the parking lots surrounding...

Cheerleaders At Coeducational Erskine College | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Cheerleaders At Coeducational Erskine College | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 30

Erskine College, located in Due West in Abbeville County, was founded by the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1839, and named in honor of the Scottish founder of the denomination, Ebenezer...

Furman Academy and Theological Institution | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Furman Academy and Theological Institution | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 31

First proposed by Dr. Richard Furman in 1821 (see Richard Furman), but not established until 1825 by the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the Furman Academy and Theological Institution opened at...

The Student Body of Winyah School | History SC Slide Collection

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The Student Body of Winyah School | History SC Slide Collection

Episode 31

The Bell Tower on Furman Hall | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Bell Tower on Furman Hall | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 32

This photo is of the old Greenville men's campus. The bell tower on Furman Hall, one of the original 1851 buildings, was a landmark of the campus and the community. Courtesy of the Greenville County...

A Card Advertising "The Greenville Baptist Female College" | History of SC Slide Collection

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A Card Advertising "The Greenville Baptist Female College" | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 33

A card advertising "The Greenville Baptist Female College," issued by Professor C.H. Judson (see Charles Hallette Judson), December 23, 1863, announced that, "during the suspension of the Furman...

Greenville Women's College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Greenville Women's College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 34

Greenville Women's College, photographed on May 15th, 1908. Established in 1854 by the South Carolina Baptist Convention, Greenville Baptist Female College opened in February 1856, on this site...

Aerial View of the New Furman Campus | History of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial View of the New Furman Campus | History of SC Slide Collection

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An aerial view of the new Furman campus, 1959. In the summer of 1958, Furman moved to this new campus six miles north of town. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Harbison Agricultural College Students | History of SC Slide Collection

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Harbison Agricultural College Students | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 36

Harbison Agricultural College students, Class of 1916. Harbison was a school for African-Americans founded by the Presbyterian Church in the area north of Columbia to train young men to be better...

Lander College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Lander College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 37

Lander College, in Greenwood, was founded in Anderson County by Dr. Samuel Lander for the Upper South Carolina Methodist Conference in 1873 as the Williamston Female College. When it moved to...

Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Limestone College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 38

Limestone College women stroll in front of the college's main building in Gaffney; the skirt styles, blue jeans, and car date this photograph as sometime in the early 1950s. Their attire is a far cry...

Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 39

Newberry College, pictured in this engraving as it appeared around 1860, was one of a number of denominational colleges founded in the state just before the Civil War. Chartered in 1856 as a Lutheran...

Horseshoe of South Carolina College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Horseshoe of South Carolina College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 40

This colored lithograph portrays the horseshoe of South Carolina College as it appeared in 1853, a half century after its founding. An act to establish the College was passed in December of 1801, but...

University Of South Carolina During The Civil War | History of SC Slide Collection

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University Of South Carolina During The Civil War | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 41

This detail of a large lithographic map of Columbia published in 1872 shows the campus of the University of South Carolina as it appeared after the Civil War. The Confederate government had taken...

Aerial view of the University of South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

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Aerial view of the University of South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 42

Aerial view of the University of South Carolina horseshoe in 1948. Women had been admitted to the college in 1895, and in 1906 it once again became a University. After lean years during the Tillmanite...

Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 43

Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College, also known as Tillman Hall, 1894. The Winthrop Training School was first opened in 1886 in a renovated stable and former chapel of the Columbia...

Winthrop Biology Student | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop Biology Student | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 44

A Winthrop biology student in the early 1950s. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

Class at Winthrop in 1950's | History of SC Slide Collection

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Class at Winthrop in 1950's | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 45

In the 1950s, Winthrop was still a college for white women, with rules regarding dress and class attendance. These attentive students taking notes in a large classroom are a remarkable contrast to...

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Photograph of a Winthrop College Classroom | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 46

This 1974 photograph of a Winthrop College classroom illustrates many of the changes in higher education that occurred in South Carolina in the late 1960s. The College had become co-educational, and...

Winthrop Industrial College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop Industrial College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 47

Winthrop Industrial College, photographed May 12, 1894, was the industrial half of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial School constructed in Rock Hill. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Wofford College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Wofford College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 48

Wofford College, founded in 1850 through a gift from local Methodist minister Benjamin Wofford, was one of the several denominational colleges that emerged in competition with the South Carolina...