Schools and Educational Institutions

Oberlin Unit of Faith Cabin Library | History of SC Slide Collection

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Oberlin Unit of Faith Cabin Library | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 4

The Oberlin Unit of Faith Cabin Library, in Seneca. These libraries were the result of the cooperation of a white textile mill laborer and a teacher in an African-American school in Edgefield County...

Reading Room Of The University Of South Carolina's Library | History of SC Slide Collection

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Reading Room Of The University Of South Carolina's Library | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

The reading room of the University of South Carolina's library in 1925. The building, erected in 1940, is the earliest separate college library structure in the country, and was the main university...

The Greenville County Library | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Greenville County Library | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Greenville County Library operated a bookmobile in the 1920s that was used by both African-American and white students. Courtesy of the National Records and Archives Administration.

Pineville Library Society Bookplate | History of SC Slide Collection

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Pineville Library Society Bookplate | History of SC Slide Collection

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The scarcity and value of books made the establishment of libraries an important early cultural institution. This Pineville Library Society bookplate, designed by the Pineville Academy to identify and...

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...

Winthrop Industrial College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop Industrial College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 47

Winthrop Industrial College, photographed May 12, 1894, was the industrial half of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial School constructed in Rock Hill. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

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Photograph of a Winthrop College Classroom | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 46

This 1974 photograph of a Winthrop College classroom illustrates many of the changes in higher education that occurred in South Carolina in the late 1960s. The College had become co-educational, and...

Class at Winthrop in 1950's | History of SC Slide Collection

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Class at Winthrop in 1950's | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 45

In the 1950s, Winthrop was still a college for white women, with rules regarding dress and class attendance. These attentive students taking notes in a large classroom are a remarkable contrast to...

Winthrop Biology Student | History of SC Slide Collection

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Winthrop Biology Student | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 44

A Winthrop biology student in the early 1950s. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.

Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 43

Construction of the Main Building of Winthrop College, also known as Tillman Hall, 1894. The Winthrop Training School was first opened in 1886 in a renovated stable and former chapel of the Columbia...

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