The ways in which South Carolinians have earned their livings, enriched themselves and the state, and provided essential goods and services to each other, the region, and the nation have varied over time and place, and are becoming increasingly diverse. The images collected together in this category do not make up the whole story. Users of this collection are urged to look also at the following section on transportation, and to use the search function for additional images that illustrate the agriculture, commerce and industry of South Carolina.
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The Southern Railway promoted the resort and tourist qualities of many of the South Carolina towns through which its passenger lines passed. This brochure advertises the charms of the village of...
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These bath houses at Myrtle Beach were popular with beach-goers in 1910. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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A color postcard from the 1950s shows the completed hydro and steam electric generating plants of the Santee-Cooper facility at Moncks Corner. The photograph shows the Pinopolis dam, as well as the...
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Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Roof, Sr., pose with their hired hand Dick Portee, around 1900. The livestock they exhibit in the farm yard behind their Lexington house were proudly included in the photograph as...
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Okra was a crop first brought to South Carolina from Africa. It is now a staple of southern cooking, widely used to thicken stews and gumbos. Here it is harvested around 1970 at the Clemson experiment...
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African-American and white boys work together stringing tobacco under the shade of the shed, near Marion. Sorting and stringing tobacco onto long poles was a preliminary step to curing it. Dorothea...
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Most mill villages featured a company store where mill operatives could buy the necessities of life without leaving the town. The interior of this store in the Winnsboro Mill Village in Fairfield...
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The Atlantic Coast Lumber Company in Georgetown generated its own electricity at the turn of the century, and used electric trolleys to move the logs and lumber around its large plant on the Sampit...
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The Carolina Eastman plant in St. Matthews is a modern chemical industry that manufactures synthetic fibers. Official company photograph, 1983. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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Not to be outdone by Greenville's claim (see The Woodside Cotton Mill), this Columbia postcard of around 1915 describes the Olympia and Granby Cotton Mills: "Olympia Mill, the largest cotton mill...
