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Since 2004, your Digital Collections team has provided open access to diverse and fascinating archives, rare books, photographs, films, oral histories and manuscripts.

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We work with six special collections units on campus and, to date, have created nearly 300 digital collections for you to discover. In partnering with South Carolina Digital Library and Digital Public Library of America, we meet industry standards and collaborate often. With continuous digital preservation, our team ensures USC research and teaching collections are available around the globe, wherever you are.

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2015 South Carolina Flood Collection Oral histories that discuss the 2015 flash flooding in central South Carolina	Digitized Materials
Abby D. Munro Papers, 1837-1913 This collection includes letters, legal documents, financial documents, and photographs of the Mt. Pleasant Home for Destitute Children, and an extensive run of the Laing School Visitor newsletter.	Digitized Materials
AccessAble Books Rare, unique and invaluable, these books were digitized in collaboration with the USC Press	Digitized Materials
Ada Clare Papers, 1841-1864 Ada Clare (1836-1874) was the pseudonym and later legal name of Jane McElhenney, a journalist, writer, actress, poet, and feminist	Digitized Materials
Alphabet Rendered Instructive and Entertaining This abecedaria, published in 1775, is an excellent example of an early, illustrated alphabet book	Digitized Materials
American Revolution in South Carolina This digital collection brings together material from numerous South Caroliniana Library collections to document the experiences of South Carolinians during the American Revolutionary War	Digitized Materials
Angelica Singleton Van Buren Collection Documents relating to Angelica Singleton Van Buren’s life in the early to mid-nineteenth century in the United States and abroad	Digitized Materials
Armstrong Family Papers, 1900-1930 One of America's foremost early twentieth-century African-American magic acts. 127 items including letters and photographs	Digitized Materials
Audubon's Birds of America The Birds of America consists of 435 plates representing the life-sized and realistically posed birds illustrated by John James Audubon and printed mainly in London by Havell. The hand painted engravings constitute a significant contribution to works of ornithology.	Digitized Materials
Berkeley County Photograph Collection 66 photographs circa 1900 of plantations, black history, rice threshing, hunting and churches in Berkeley County before the area was flooded for Lake Marion	Digitized Materials
Beulah Glover Photograph Collection Photographs by Glover of events and places in the Walterboro, S.C. area, 1941-1952	Digitized Materials
Bonds Conway papers, 1763-1907 Family letters, land papers, and other items documenting several generations of a free family of color in Camden, S.C. and elsewhere	Digitized Materials
Briggs v. Elliott This digital collection provides a contextual glance into primary sources surrounding the legal case Briggs v. Elliott	Digitized Materials
Broadsides from the Colonial Era to the Present Posters, one page fliers, advertisements and other types of ephemera from across many different collections	Digitized Materials
Butler Derrick: In His Own Words Elected to Congress in 1974, Butler Derrick represented South Carolina's Third District from 1975 to 1995.	Digitized Materials
Calvin Shedd Papers, 1862-1864 Chiefly correspondence that vividly portrays conditions in U.S. Army general hospitals at Beaufort and Hilton Head during the Civil War	Digitized Materials
Camilla Urso Collection Camilla Urso was one of the leading violinists of the 19th century with a career that spanned more than fifty years	Digitized Materials
Carolina Bands Collection Band directors’, James Pritchard Sr., James K. Copenhaver, collection of sheetmusic, drill charts, album covers, photos, and football programs	Digitized Materials
Carolina Student's Handbook A glimpse of the campus culture at the University of South Carolina from the 1920s through the 1940s, published annually by the University’s YMCA and YWCA chapters	Digitized Materials
Catesby's Natural Histories In February 1722, Mark Catesby, a 40-year-old Englishman with an enigmatic past and an insatiable curiosity for the wonders of nature, set sail from London on a three-month voyage to South Carolina. His sojourn in the New World was taken under the auspices of a group of Fellows of London’s Royal Society.	Digitized Materials
Census of Cuba, 1899 786-page report tells the geography, history, culture and statistical makeup of Cuba in 1899	Digitized Materials
Charles Stuart Vedder Papers Diaries of a Presbyterian minister spanning the Civil War discussing the war, social life, and religion	Digitized Materials
Charleston Earthquake, 1886 August 31, 1886, Charleston and surrounding towns suffered extensive damage from the largest earthquake to ever hit the southeast	Digitized Materials
Chester County Historical Collection, 1739-1997 Situated in the eastern South Carolina Piedmont between the Catawba and Broad Rivers, on land once inhabited by the Catawba and Cherokee, Chester County was created in 1785 from parts of the old Camden Judicial District. Like other Backcountry portions of the state, the area that would become Chester saw an increase of Scots-Irish immigration from Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1750s.	Digitized Materials
Children's Moral Tales Part of the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections' Pamphlets, this collection features one title, "Sunday afternoons with Mamma: a book for very little children" from 1866, by Agnes Giberne.	Digitized Materials

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