Schools and Educational Institutions

Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Converse College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 22

Converse College, Spartanburg, in 1909. Converse owes its name and its existence to D.E. Converse, a textile manufacturer from Massachusetts who came to Spartanburg in 1856. Believing that "the well...

Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection

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Chicora College | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 21

In 1890, the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina purchased the Hampton-Preston Mansion on Blanding Street from the Ursuline Sisters who had used it as a convent since the end of the war, and...

West Florence High School Cafeteria | History of SC Slide Collection

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West Florence High School Cafeteria | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 20

West Florence High School cafeteria, 1970. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

Interior of the Mather School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Interior of the Mather School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 19

The interior of the Mather School auditorium around 1940. Mather School was founded in 1868 in Beaufort by Mrs. Rachel Crane Mather of Boston, and was operated after 1882 by the Women's Baptist Home...

School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection

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School on Coosaw Island | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 18

This one-room school on Coosaw Island was taught by a Penn School graduate in the 1920s. A Penn School faculty member wrote a note on the back of the photograph, "It is to such conditions that our...

Unnamed African-American School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Unnamed African-American School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 17

The junior class and the fourth grade of an unnamed African-American school in Chester, around 1912.

Loulie Shand's Kindergarten Class | History of SC Slide Collection

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Loulie Shand's Kindergarten Class | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 16

Loulie Shand's kindergarten class, Columbia, early in the 20th century. Photographer Walter L. Blanchard's daughter Ruth is the first girl on the right. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Students Form Confederate Flag | History of SC Slide Collection

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Students Form Confederate Flag | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 15

A group of school children visited Columbia on Lee-Jackson Day in January around 1910. Dressed in the appropriate colors, they formed the Confederate flag on the steps of the South Carolina State...