J. Important Institutions in South Carolina | History of SC Slide Collection

Though we celebrate individuals and families as the keystone of our society, and celebrate the communities in which the individuals live and work, it is often institutions that bridge the gap between the individual (or family) and the community. Institutions are the way in which we organize ourselves to achieve commonly held goals. Education begins at home--but it is the institutional structure of schools, academies, colleges, and universities that makes us an educated people. Faith is a private and individual matter of belief--but it is most often through the institutional churches that belief becomes active in the community. Communities provide hospitals, orphanages, prisons, and police and fire departments, because we value our mutual health and safety. And finally, government in a democratic republic is the institution we create to link all those institutions and ourselves together, to ensure that they work for the benefit of all of us, not just for a few. In this section of the collection you will find images of the physical structures in which institutions are housed, as well as a picture of the people that make them work.

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

 

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Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection
Winyah School | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 12

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The student body of Winyah School poses in front of the Winyah Indigo Society Hall, corner of Prince and Cannon Streets in Georgetown, on a warm spring day around 1900. The substantial profits made by...
South Carolina Legislature | History of SC Slide Collection
South Carolina Legislature | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10

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South Carolina state government is carried out by the Governor and state legislature, and the laws they create are adjudicated by the state court system. Here, James F. Byrnes, Governor from 1951-1955...
Hospital #15 | History of SC Slide Collection
Hospital #15 | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 9

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A fire truck and firemen pose in front of "Hospital #15," one of a number of Beaufort residences converted by Federal troops into a medical unit for the wounded, in this 1865 photograph. Courtesy of...
The Old Charleston Museum | History of SC Slide Collection
The Old Charleston Museum | History of SC Slide Collection
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The Charleston Museum, one of the oldest in the nation, had its beginnings as a collection of scientific specimens by the Charleston Library Society in 1778. By 1843, the collection had been...
Relic Room | History of SC Slide Collection
Relic Room | History of SC Slide Collection
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Museums as institutions help citizens identify with their past. This "Relic Room" was maintained in the State House until the completion in November 1935 of the War Memorial building on Sumter Street...