It is impossible to include all of the history of South Carolina in the images that have been included in this roughly chronological section of the entire collection. Those who wish to expand their understanding of a particular period are urged to use the search function for particular dates for images from the other sections of the collection illustrating other aspects of South Carolina life at that time.
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At 9:45 p.m. on August 31, 1886, a major earthquake struck Charleston. There were 27 people killed in the collapse of buildings, and another 33 died later of injuries. Buildings were destroyed, roads...
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The Chester County courthouse was the site of a meeting of the Union League, the Republican organization that dominated Reconstruction politics in the county, uniting African-Americans and a few...
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The Vietnam War inspired student protests against U.S. actions on many college and university campuses, which often ended in violence between student protestors and campus or local municipal police...
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Blackbeard (Edward Thatch, Teach, or Tench) was one of the best known of the pirates whose activities expanded in the period 1716-1718 when the end of the war against Spain threw great numbers of...
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James S. White of Rock Hill kept a scrapbook of his activities as a Second Lieutenant in Company G of the first South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Here he and his friend J.C...
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The gunboat "Planter," seized by an African-American crew and the daring African-American harbor pilot Robert Smalls, did manage to break the federal blockade of the city in May of 1862. Smalls...
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The first integration of public higher education in South Carolina came at Clemson University. The student who successfully sued for admission with the help of his NAACP attorney, Matthew Perry (left)...
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In 1979, Nancy Stevenson became the first woman elected to the office of lieutenant governor. One of the roles of lieutenant governor is to preside over the Senate. Photo by Vic Tutte, March 1979...
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These Native American men are hunting, wearing deer hides as disguises. Native American societies in the southeastern United States region were matrilineal: kinship was traced through the mother's...
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"One family's mass migration in search of better fortune: Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Aitken and their 14 children, passing through Richmond, Virginia on a hike to Springfield, Ohio from Springfield, South...
