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Mrs. T.C. Shores shows her crazy quilt "Creations" to an admiring visitor in 1973. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.H. Ordinary People & Everyday Life | History of SC Slide Collection
Many of the images in the three sections of the collection preceding this one ("Economic Activity in South Carolina,""Transportation in South Carolina," and "South Carolina Towns and Cities") are also about the everyday lives of ordinary people: the work they have done, the places they lived, the means by which they moved back and forth between home and work, or home and play. But this section is intended to focus particularly on the people themselves. The organization of this section is a mixture of category and chronology. Because South Carolinians have taken sports seriously, the first images here are of competitive sports. These are followed by images of outdoor recreation; of ceremonies, parades and demonstrations; of the making of music and of dancing, as well as other forms of the art of entertainment; of cooking and cleaning; of creating crafts. The final group of images is one of portraits: people in groups, and people as individuals. In some cases, we know their names. In many cases, we do not. For all, their smiles, their poses, their surroundings are memorable: from the anticipation of a group of teenagers about to board a bus for a trip, to the serenity of a young Civil War wife to travel to Charleston to see her soldier husband - these are all people to whom we respond in recognition and delight.
Photo of the Laurens Football Team circa 1909 courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Cooking today is a very different matter from the days of wood-burning stoves, when an important chore of children of the house was keeping the stove supplied with wood. This cast-iron stove was...Photo
Winthrop College students of the 1970s gather outdoors with a guitar on a warm spring day. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.Photo
After Reconstruction ended, there gradually emerged in South Carolina, as in other parts of the South, a romanticization of the "old South" and the glories of the Confederacy--a period many chose to...Photo
Swimming in the tree-shaded waters of Black Creek has been a long tradition in the Hartsville-Darlington region; this group of bathers enjoyed the cool water sometime around 1920. Courtesy of the...Photo
Joe Tilghman, who played for Furman University, was named All State End in 1924, 1925, and 1926. From the Baptist Historical Collection. Courtesy of the Furman University Archives Special Collections...Photo
This is one of a series of photos from a collection made by Mrs. I.A. Robertson in 1908. She had long been interested in the Catawba Native Americans and their pottery, and often visited their...Photo
Mrs. Mamie Norris Tillman, an active member of the Edgefield chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as a founder of the Edgefield County Historical Society, helps to dedicate an...Photo
Quilts made in the African-American tradition are more free in form and in the combinations of colors than the carefully laid out regular patterns of quilts made by women working in European American...Photo
Women are not the only ones who cook in South Carolina! This cook on a fishing boat in Charleston is peeling potatoes for Christmas dinner in December 1938. Photograph for the Farm Security...