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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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Movie Theaters | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Movie Theaters | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3
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...
Protesters Against Abortion | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Protesters Against Abortion | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 5
Protestors against abortion picket outside the Planned Parenthood building on the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court Decision in "Roe v. Wade" allowing abortion. January 1983 photo by Perry Baker...
Festival Day In Sumter | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Festival Day In Sumter | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3
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...
Fishing | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Fishing | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10
Margaret Law Trenholm and her friend Mrs. Plowden (in white) are dressed for fishing at the north causeway to Pawley's Island in 1910. From the Trenholm/Morgan Photograph Collection. Courtesy of the...
Rock Cliff Park | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Rock Cliff Park | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 9
Rock Cliff Park in Spartanburg provided a place to swim; a postcard view at the turn of the century shows the trolley that brought swimmers directly to the pool. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody...
Barbecuing | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Barbecuing | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 7
Barbecue in its many forms is a tradition so important in South Carolina cuisine that regional variations in barbecue sauce were included in a recent geography of the state! Here, a St. Helena's...
Outdoor Tea | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Outdoor Tea | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 5
Winthrop students in the Home Economics Department prepare and serve an elaborate outdoor tea, around 1950. Note the white gloves and hats. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Hunting Wild Turkeys | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3
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...
Swimming In Black Creek | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Swimming In Black Creek | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 2
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...
Boxing | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Boxing | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 13
This boxing match was one of many events that made the new Community Building built by the Mill a center for leisure-time activities of the Winnsboro Mill operatives and their families around 1929...