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Crafting Baskets Out Of Split White Oak | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Crafting Baskets Out Of Split White Oak | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A traditional skill of the mountain and Piedmont areas is the crafting of baskets out of carefully split white oak. Here, Franklin Deloach shows the first stage in the making of a white oak basket...

African American Quilting Traditions | History Of SC Slide Collection

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African American Quilting Traditions | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Quilts made in the African-American tradition are more free in form and in the combinations of colors than the carefully laid out regular patterns of quilts made by women working in European American...

Mrs. T.C. Shores Shows Off Her Crazy "Quilt Creations" | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Mrs. T.C. Shores Shows Off Her Crazy "Quilt Creations" | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Mrs. T.C. Shores shows her crazy quilt "Creations" to an admiring visitor in 1973. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

The Works Progress Administration | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Works Progress Administration | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The Works Progress Administration taught African-American and white women to make quilts through homemaker classes. Here, a group of South Carolina women work on quilting (sewing together the layers...

A Berkeley County Woman Doing Laundry | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Berkeley County Woman Doing Laundry | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Berkeley County woman squeezes excess water out of her clean laundry by running clothes through a mechanical wringer. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Wash-Day On This Georgetown County Plantation | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Wash-Day On This Georgetown County Plantation | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A cast iron wash pot sits in the front yard of one of the houses on this Georgetown County plantation, photographed around 1900. Washday meant boiling the wash, wringing it out laboriously by hand...

A Typical "Dug Well" | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Typical "Dug Well" | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A typical "dug well" with a bucket and wooden base was a common sight in the yards of most mill village or farm families. This photograph was taken as part of the report of the U.S. Medical Corps on...

A Jasper County Woman's New Storage Shelves | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Jasper County Woman's New Storage Shelves | History Of SC Slide Collection

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This Jasper County woman proudly displays the new shelves she has built in her home to store her home canning, early 1950s. Courtesy of the Jasper County Chamber of Commerce.

A Fishing Boat Cook Peeling Potatoes | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Fishing Boat Cook Peeling Potatoes | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Women are not the only ones who cook in South Carolina! This cook on a fishing boat in Charleston is peeling potatoes for Christmas dinner in December 1938. Photograph for the Farm Security...

Wood Burning Stoves | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Wood Burning Stoves | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Cooking today is a very different matter from the days of wood-burning stoves, when an important chore of children of the house was keeping the stove supplied with wood. This cast-iron stove was...

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