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SOST 298 / AFAM 398: Gullah Geechee Culture

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Digitized Materials from South Caroliniana Library

Visual Materials from Stereographic Views of South Carolina, digital collection

African American woman selling brooms
Charleston County, c. 1860-1899
Picking Cotton, S.C.
Charleston County, c. 1870-1889
No. 52, The bull cart going to market
Charleston County, c. 1860-1889
No. 74, Going to market - the old ox and cart - scene in South Carolina
Charleston County, c. 1875
No. 37, "Uncle Jimmy," the champion fisherman of Beaufort, S.C.
c. 1875
African American couple in street with ox cart loaded with grain bags
Beaufort County, 1879
A rice raft, South Carolina, U.S.A.
Georgetown County, 1895
various views of Port Royal Island
various views of Hilton Head Island

Visual Materials from WPA Photograph Collection, c. 1930-1940, digital collection

Fishing boat near dock on Bay Street
Beaufort County
Negro Fourth of July picnic near Beaufort, South Carolina
Mather School (negro), founded 1868
Beaufort
Two-wheeled ox cart
Beaufort County
Negro house
Beaufort County
Unidentified house. Tabby slave quarters
Beaufort County
Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School, founded 1862
St. Helena Island, Beaufort County
Wooden shutter, negro cabin
St. Helena Island. Beaufort County
Negro cabin with children and dogs
St. Helena Island. Beaufort County
Old negro woman in cabin door
St Helena Island, Beaufort County
Oyster factory
Ladies Island, Beaufort County
Boy on two-wheeled ox cart
Ladies Island, Beaufort County
Shooting craps
Ladies Island, Beaufort County
Picking beans on Edisto Island, S.C.
Charleston County
Planting Irish potatoes on Edisto Island, S.C.
Charleston County
Sanctify African-American church on Edisto Island, S.C.
African-American woman and children in doorway of home with laundry on the line, Charleston, S.C.
African-American tenement. Courtyard, woman washing
Charleston
Street vendor
Charleston
African-American children playing outside a house on Johns Island, S.C.
Charleston County
Children grinding rice
Charleston County

Visual materials from South Carolina and the Civil War

The war in South Carolina -- "Pay-Day" Among the negro "contrabands" employed in gathering cotton on the sea islands, Port Royal
1861