8 Collections
Beaufort County Library, the public library system of Beaufort County, provides informational, educational and recreational resources to the community to help individuals adapt to a rapidly changing world while protecting the past by preserving our area's rich heritage. Home of the Beaufort District Collection, we interact with researchers from all over the world. After all, as author Larry Rowland, Ph.D. has written, "All American history begins in Beaufort."
Located in historic Charleston, The College of Charleston offers many digital collections that document the holdings in Addlestone Library's Special Collections, Avery Research Center, and other archives. Topics covered in these collections include slavery, local history and organizations, art, photography, and literature.
The mission of the Carolina Art Association (the Gibbes Museum of Art) is to offer through collection, exhibition and interpretation a thorough knowledge of the visual culture of Charleston, the Lowcountry and the American South from the colonial era through today.
One of the many ways Historic Charleston Foundation seeks to protect Charleston's architectural, historical and cultural integrity is through scholarly research and documentation. Not only does HCF maintain its own records in the Margaretta Childs Archive, staff members also can offer advice to those researching Charleston's architecture and history.
MEDICA is the institutional repository and digital archives of the Medical University of South Carolina. MEDICA was created to provide access to current research of MUSC faculty and students, as well as the historical archival collections held at MUSC's Waring Historical Library and University Archives. MEDICA's collections include articles written by MUSC faculty, theses and dissertations written by MUSC students, and historical photographs and documents relating to the history of the health sciences. Finding aids for archival collections at the Waring Historical Library and University Archives are another component of the digital collections.
The Charleston Archive, located on the second floor of the Main Library, is an archive of historic manuscripts, books and visual materials representing Charleston and the surrounding Lowcountry. Much of the unique manuscript material housed in The Charleston Archive contains valuable genealogical information and is available on microfilm or photocopies in the South Carolina Room. Access to the original materials is by appointment only.
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America's first museum, founded in 1773. Its mission is to preserve and interpret the cultural and natural history of Charleston and the Lowcountry. The varied items of the Archives certainly reflect the museum's long history of collecting and include books, photographs, maps, manuscripts, postcards, journals and newspapers. While there are some materials from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries, the bulk of the collections are from the 19th century. Access to the original materials is by appointment only.
There are over three hundred collections in the Citadel's Archives which pertain to the history of the Military College of South Carolina or have military significance. The time span of the collections is from 1842 to the present. Holdings include personal papers, letters, diaries, reports, minutes, speeches, Citadel publications. Visual images include photographs, postcards, engravings, films and videotapes.