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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A Good Crop Of Kudzu | History Of SC Slide Collection
A Good Crop Of Kudzu | History Of SC Slide Collection
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"A good crop of Kudzu," grown by a Pickens County farmer, is proudly displayed in this July 1939, photo by L.W. Riley for the Department of Agriculture. Courtesy of the Clemson University Libraries.
Joe Tilghman | History Of SC Slide Collection
Joe Tilghman | History Of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Swimming In Black Creek | History Of SC Slide Collection
Swimming In Black Creek | History Of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Wood Burning Stoves | History Of SC Slide Collection
Wood Burning Stoves | History Of SC Slide Collection
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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...
Festival Day In Sumter | History Of SC Slide Collection
Festival Day In Sumter | History Of SC Slide Collection
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Festival Day in Sumter, a fall celebration of the cotton crop, was held in front of the Farmer's Bank and Trust Company building around 1913. The building was originally built as Sumter County's...
Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection
Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection
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Hunting wild turkeys has been a sport and a means of providing food in South Carolina since before the arrival of the first European settlers. This turkey was shot by Calder W. Seibels of Columbia...
Manly Field | History Of SC Slide Collection
Manly Field | History Of SC Slide Collection
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Manly Field, Furman, 1929--the first football stadium in the South Atlantic to be lighted for games at night. A newspaper account of the first night game played there reports that the lights were on...
Movie Theaters | History Of SC Slide Collection
Movie Theaters | History Of SC Slide Collection
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Movie-going was an important source of entertainment during the 1920s and 1930s, and every town of any size in South Carolina had a movie theater in the downtown shopping district. The Rex Theater in...