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Individual States R - SRhode IslandRhode Island Historical Society Founded in 1822, the Rhode Island Historical Society is a privately endowed, membership organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing Rhode Island's history. The nations fourth oldest state historical society, the RIHS houses distinguished museum and library collections that comprise more than 30,000 objects and 500,000 written, recorded, and photographed items. The Rhode Island Historical Society online catalog contains records for all genres of the Society's collections. This includes, but is not limited to: books, objects, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, paintings, film, textiles, pamphlets, and broadsides. http://www.rihs.org/ Rhode Island State Archives http://www.sec.state.ri.us/Archives/ Online Rhode Island Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/rhodeisland/index.html South CarolinaUniversity of South Carolina Digital Collection This link will take you to the main page where you may choose any of the collections below. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/ Ö African Americans Seen Through the Eyes of the Newsreel Cameraman Fox News and Fox Movietone News camera crews covered the people and events of the country and, indeed, the world. From 1919 to 1963 these journalists aimed their viewfinders at the mundane and the spectacular. The resulting images—most of which still exist as camera negatives in the Newsfilm Library—provide an unparalleled opportunity to glimpse the world through their eyes. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/flmovietone.html Ö American Clown: Athletic Dance for Men or Boys Small 16 page book on directions for clown dancing. Date of publication is around 1927. http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/gmc&CISOPTR=16&CISOSHOW=0 Ö Broadsides from the Colonial Era to the Present Broadsides (posters, one page fliers, advertisements and other types of ephemera)can be searched, viewed, read, and compared. The dates range from the 1700s to the present, and items will continue to be added to this collection. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/broadsides.html Ö Census of Cuba, 1899 This 786 page census tells of the history, geography, culture and statistical makeup of Cuba in 1899. Except for about 200 pages of tables, it is full text searchable. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/cubancensus.html Ö Center for Southern African-American Music The CSAM archive comprises print, audio-visual, and primary source materials related specifically to African-American music of the south. http://www.sc.edu/csam/ Ö Digital Sheet Music Project This searchable database provides access to the bibliographic records and, for those pieces in the public domain, access to images of the cover and each page of music. Currently, the collection contains over 10,000 pieces of classical, popular, and sacred music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. http://sheetmusic.library.sc.edu/ Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes by Henri Grégoire The Abbé Henri-Baptiste Grégoire (1750-1831), a Catholic priest and bishop, was a leading French abolitionist at the turn of the eighteenth century, a participant in the Revolution of 1789, and a member of its governing assembly. His work An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes was first published in 1808. The first edition in English, the complete text of which is included here, was brought out in 1810 by Brooklyn printer Thomas Kirk. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/gregoire.html The USC Garnet and Black Yearbooks are currently being scanned and will be made available from this site as they are done. Each yearbook is searchable and browsable by section. The first available years are 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1975. Eventually, they hope to have 1899 - 1994 scanned. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/yearbook.html Government Information Pamphlet Collection This collection contains over 400 pamphlets from the Federal Security Agency and Health, Education and Welfare programs discussing a wide variety of subjects. These pamphlets, ranging in dates from the 1930s – 1970s, can also be found in the online catalog. Government information pamphlets from other agencies as well will continue to be added to this collection. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/govdocpamphlet.html Historical Soil Survey Maps of South Carolina These forty South Carolina soil survey maps from the early Nineteen Hundreds were prepared with booklets to explain the soil classifications on the county level. They include information that do not appear on updated survey maps, such as old rail lines, schools, churches and other structures as well as entire towns that no longer exist. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/soilsurvey.html Rosenberg, recognized as the first significant Jewish poets in English literature, was one of the major poets whose life was cut short by the Great War, and the only one who served in the ranks. This online collection includes six items, including one of only three known copies of Rosenberg's first book of poems, Night and Day (1912). This copy also contains a manuscript poem in Rosenberg's own hand. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/rosenberg.html The items in this collection illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence. From varied periods, national origins, and functionality, the documents in this collection provide a wide-ranging introduction to the art of the medieval manuscript. Paul Hamilton Papers, 1802 - 1812 This small collection of letters written by U.S. Secretary of the Navy Paul Hamilton (1762-1816) documents concerns and developments during the months preceding the War of 1812. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/paulhamilton.html Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects (1773) Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773) is the first book published by an African-American author, and the frontispiece portrait of Wheatley is the only surviving work by the African-American slave artist Scipio Moorhead (born ca. 1750). This is a full page-by-page digital facsimile of the first edition, in searchable form. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/wheatley/wheatleyp.html Roman Vishniac: The Subject is Nature These hundred images are a portion of the many scientific and naturalistic images that Vishniac took in his life time and that the University of South Carolina holds. More will be added to this collection in the future. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/vishniac.html Originally conceived in the late 18th Century, fire insurance maps provided structural and urban environmental information necessary for insurance underwriters. Included here are over 2000 Sanborn Maps of over eighty cities in South Carolina from 1884 - 1923 as well as over two hundred unpublished draft maps of additional cities in the state. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/sanborn.html South Carolina Aerial Photos (pilot project) This pilot project consists of a small portion of the aerial photo collection, approximately 360 images of 130,000, focusing just on Columbia, SC for the dates of 1938, 1959-60, 1971, and 1980. Photos will continue to be added to the collection. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/aerials/scaerialscolahome.html The Bonneville Collection is a collection of late nineteenth century photographs, postcards and artifacts pertaining to the American Plains Indians. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/bonneville.html The Calvin Shedd Papers, 1862 - 1863 Forty-four letters, 1862-1863, of Union soldier Calvin Shedd, Co. A, Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, are written primarily from locations in coastal South Carolina and addressed to his wife, S. Augusta Shedd, at Enfield, N.H., and South Reading, Mass. Shedd, a first sergeant, later second lieutenant, writes intelligently and with great detail, describing events, people, and places. His letters are noteworthy for their accounts of hospital conditions, portrayed vividly in correspondence penned from U.S. Army general hospitals at Beaufort, Hilton Head, and a field hospital at Folly Island. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/shedd.html This collection offers a wide survey of typography, page design, and book illustration spanning 500 years of printing in Europe and the Americas. Also included are manuscript leaves from the medieval and early modern periods, including some examples from the Middle East. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/printedpage.html The Ethelind Pope Brown Collection of South Carolina Natural History This collection is comprised of 32 opaque watercolors, or gouaches, on paper created in the late 1700s. Each depicts at least one species of flora and fauna (primarily birds, trees, and flowering plants) found in the American Southeast. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/popebrown.html The New South Newspaper, 1862 - 1866 Union postmaster Joseph H. Sears published the New South newspaper out of the post office building on Union Square in Port Royal, S.C., on a weekly basis beginning in March 1862. The paper was moved to the town of Beaufort sometime in 1865 and remained there until it ceased in 1867. The New South offers a glimpse into an era of unprecedented social upheaval in the South Carolina Lowcountry. The 64 issues available online are fully searchable and readable. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html Topographic Maps of South Carolina: 1888-1975 The Map Library has made available from this site 236 topographic maps of South Carolina. The Polyconic Projections were first published in the late 19th Century. Some were produced by the Army, others by the Corps. of Engineers and the remainder were produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/topomaps.html Travel Journal and Album of Collected Papers of William Tennent III, 1740 - 1777 This online collection contains not only Tennent’s Journal and Album, but also a 1974 essay entitled “The Back Country Commission of Drayton, Tennent, and Hart: 1775” by L.L. Owens and two maps of their back country route. The journal covers Tennent's trek though the S.C. back-country, at times in the company of William Henry Drayton and Rev. Oliver Hart in an effort to persuade Loyalist “Tories” to join the Patriot cause. The album contains papers documenting Tennent’s life as a Presbyterian minister in the Colonies of New Jersey and Connecticut, the courtship of his wife despite her mother’s objections, and his 1772 arrival in Charleston, S.C., to serve the Independent or Congregational Church among other topics. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/tennent.html Tried as by Fire: or, The True and The False, Socially by Victoria Woodhull Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) was the first woman to run for President of the United States, the first female stockbroker on Wall Street, and the publisher of the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto. With her sister, Tennessee, she published a progressive journal, Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly (1870-1876) and was involved with the early women's rights movement in America. This 1874 speech, a stinging attack on marriage, was part of her truly radical vision of social, economic, and political equality for both men and women. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/woodhull.html This 42 page book written around 1907 describes how the iron-clad steamer, Virginia, destroyed the Merrimac and others during the Civil War. http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/jgf&CISOPTR=87&CISOSHOW=44 William Drayton Rutherford Papers, 1858 - 1897 This collection of one hundred fifty-three manuscripts begins in 1858 when Rutherford was courting Sallie Fair, the daughter of Simeon Fair, of Newberry, S.C. The courtship of William ("Drate") Rutherford and Sallie Fair was interrupted in 1861 by secession and war. http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/rutherford.html South Carolina Digital Library http://digilibsc.org/ South Carolina Department of Archives and History is an independent state agency whose mission is to preserve and promote the documentary and cultural heritage of the Palmetto State. The department houses one of the most comprehensive state archival collections in the nation, spanning more than 325 years of South Carolina history. One form searches all of the following: Confederate Pension Applications 1919 - 1938, South Carolina Criminal Journals 1769 - 1776, Index to Multiple Record Series ca. 1675 -1929, Legislative Papers 1782 - 1866, National Register of Historic Places, Plats for State Land Grants 1784 - 1868, School Insurance Photographs 1935 - 1952, Will Transcripts 1782 - 1855 http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/Archives/search/ Online South Carolina Death Indexes from Joel Beine http://www.deathindexes.com/southcarolina/index.html South DakotaSouth Dakota Birth Record Search Page. This site contains information from birth records with birth dates of over 100 years of age. At this time this site contains 150,833 records. http://apps.sd.gov/applications/PH14Over100BirthRec/index.asp The South Dakota State Archives features three main indexes for genealogists including: Naturalization Index, Newspaper Index, and Newspaper Vital Records Index. http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/arcgen.htm South Dakota State historical Society http://www.sdhistory.org/soc/soc_online_exhibits.htm The Dakota Experience original documents in three categories: "The Wild West", "Onward, Christian Soldiers", and "Territorial Politics" http://www.dakotaexperience.org/cvfrontier/collections.html Dakota Profiles - portraits and brief biographies http://www.sdhistory.org/rp/dp/rp_dapr.htm South Dakota memory Project http://sdmemory.library.sd.gov/index.htm Compiled Laws of the Territory of Dakota, 1887 http://e.library.sd.gov/ South Dakota Births, Deaths, and Marriages SOUTH DAKOTA. Lawrence County. The West Lead Cemetery. 1,802 records. Online South Dakota Death Indexes from Joel Beine |
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