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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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Portable Chest X-Ray Unit | History of SC Slide Collection

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Portable Chest X-Ray Unit | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 10
Many of the endemic diseases that had killed children and young adults were gradually eliminated through better sanitation and medical immunization by the mid-20th century, but others remained. Here...
Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 8
African herbal medicine traditions remained an important part of health care practices in the slave communities. Even after the war, when the Freedman's Bureau and northern educators tried to teach...
James B. Edwards | History of SC Slide Collection

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James B. Edwards | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 7
James B. Edwards was a dentist before he was elected as the first post-Reconstruction Republican Governor of South Carolina in 1974 (see Inauguration Of James B. Edwards). At the end of his term as...
Roper Hospital | History of SC Slide Collection

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Roper Hospital | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3
Roper Hospital, named after a Charlestonian who willed extensive real estate to the Medical Society of South Carolina (see The Medical College Of South Carolina) for the establishment of a hospital...
Wofford College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Wofford College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 48
Wofford College, founded in 1850 through a gift from local Methodist minister Benjamin Wofford, was one of the several denominational colleges that emerged in competition with the South Carolina...
Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Newberry College | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 39
Newberry College, pictured in this engraving as it appeared around 1860, was one of a number of denominational colleges founded in the state just before the Civil War. Chartered in 1856 as a Lutheran...