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Relic Room | History of SC Slide Collection

Museums as institutions help citizens identify with their past. This "Relic Room" was maintained in the State House until the completion in November 1935 of the War Memorial building on Sumter Street, which also housed the South Carolina state archives.

Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.

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The Old Charleston Museum | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 2
The Charleston Museum, one of the oldest in the nation, had its beginnings as a collection of scientific specimens by the Charleston Library Society in 1778. By 1843, the collection had been...