S.C. History

South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.

Harvesting Rice Using Modern Methods and a Tractor | History of SC Slide Collection

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Harvesting Rice Using Modern Methods and a Tractor | History of SC Slide Collection

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Harvesting rice, using modern methods and a tractor. Photo by Stan Lewis, around 1950. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

A Rice Raft with Plantation Hands | History of SC Slide Collection

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A Rice Raft with Plantation Hands | History of SC Slide Collection

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"A rice raft with plantation hands, near Georgetown." From a Keystone View Company stereograph card, around 1890. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Workers Flooding the Rice Fields Watercolor by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith | History of SC Slide Collection

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Workers Flooding the Rice Fields Watercolor by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith | History of SC Slide Collection

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A watercolor by Alice Huger Ravenel Smith of workers flooding the rice fields. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association.

Flooding a Rice Field at High Tide | History of SC Slide Collection

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Flooding a Rice Field at High Tide | History of SC Slide Collection

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Flooding a rice field at high tide. From Keystone View Company stereograph card, around 1890. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

Hoeing Rice "The Old Way" | History of SC Slide Collection

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Hoeing Rice "The Old Way" | History of SC Slide Collection

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A stereograph card shows hoeing rice "the old way." Hoe culture was the predominant method of working the soil in traditional agricultural societies, and was only slowly replaced by the use of mule...

Plowing Rice | History of SC Slide Collection

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Plowing Rice | History of SC Slide Collection

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Plowing rice. Engraving from "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," November 1878. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Alice Huger Ravenel Smith Watercolor Painting of Carolina Gold Rice | History of SC Slide Collection

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Alice Huger Ravenel Smith Watercolor Painting of Carolina Gold Rice | History of SC Slide Collection

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Alice Huger Ravenel Smith painted a number of watercolor scenes of the rice cultivation process in the Lowcountry at the turn of the 20th century. The process had not changed substantially since it...

Co-op Hog Shipment Day at Kingstree | History of SC Slide Collection

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Co-op Hog Shipment Day at Kingstree | History of SC Slide Collection

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Co-op hog shipment day at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, in February 1937. Cooperatives were encouraged in the New Deal, through loans from the Farm Security Administration, as a means of helping...

Darlington Dairy Plant | History of SC Slide Collection

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Darlington Dairy Plant | History of SC Slide Collection

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James Alford, Ernest Staton, and Bright Stevenson work in the interior of the Staton Dairy barn in Darlington County around 1923. Courtesy of the Darlington County Historical Commission.

Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Roof, Sr., Pose with Hired Help, Dick Portee | History of SC Slide Collection

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Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Roof, Sr., Pose with Hired Help, Dick Portee | History of SC Slide Collection

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Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Roof, Sr., pose with their hired hand Dick Portee, around 1900. The livestock they exhibit in the farm yard behind their Lexington house were proudly included in the photograph as...

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