Manuscript Collection
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F.W. Zile Easter Tour At Mt. Vernon Photograph - Accession 1263 - M615 (668)
F. W. Van Zile
This collection consists of a photograph of The F.W. Van Zile Easter Tour taken in front of Mt. Vernon. F.W. Van Zile was a travel company based in Rochester, NY founded in 1911 to coordinate group trips to various locations. There is large group of unidentified persons in the photograph and the origin is unknown.
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Louvain Vaughan Papers - Accession 1024 - M450 (501)
Louvain Vaughan
The Louvain Vaughan Papers consists of various Literary Society Celebration programs, Commencement programs, two 4th of July Celebration programs from 1914, State Teachers’ Association meeting program from 1914, an inspection list of the buildings of Winthrop Normal and Industrial College from 1914, a Winthrop University reunion program from 1914, a program of “The Miracle of the Roses” play acted out in 1907, and a program of a sermon given by Rev. Richard Wilkinson from 1914. Louvain Vaughan (1886-1961) graduated from Winthrop College in 1908 with Bachelor’s Degree in Normal Kindergarten. She became a teacher and principal at Fairforest Grammar School in Fairforest, SC
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Dora Dee Walker Family Photographs - Accession 352 - M141 (177)
Dora Dee Walker
The Dora Dee Walker Family Photographs consist of photographs of Dora Dee Walker, Warren Walker, Sarah Frances Walker, Ward Vernard Walker, and Ward's funeral in the Philippines. The photographs date from the 1890s to the early 1900s.
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Dora Dee Walker Papers - Accession 104 - M44 (59)
Dora Dee Walker
The Dora Dee Walker Papers consist of biographical sketches and data sheets, a letter, photographs, a newspaper clipping and a copy of the history of extension work in Allendale County, all relating to Dora Walker, pioneering State leader in extension work in South Carolina.
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Walker Family Papers - Accession 437 - M175 (216)
Walker Family
The Walker Family Papers consist of photocopies of three deeds, a New England Primer, and a five dollar note from the Bank of Chester. The documents all relate to Chester County,South Carolina.
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Walnut Grove Plantation History - Accession 418 - M164 (205)
Walnut Grove Plantation
The Walnut Grove Plantation History consists of a history and a will pertaining to the Charles Moore family of Walnut Grove Plantation, together with a 1925 map of Spartanburg County, South Carolina. There is genealogical information pertaining to the Moore and Barry family for the years 1736 to 1860.
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John S. Walton Reminiscence - Accession 281 - M120 (153)
John S. Walton
The John S. Walton Reminiscence describes his experiences as a Union soldier in the Civil War, describing campaigns in Kentucky and Tennessee. Also included is some genealogy material relating to the Walton family. John S. Walton (1841-1924) was born in London, England and sailed to America landed in Louisville, KY on July 20, 1860. On September 23, 1861 he enlisted in the 15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry and served in the Union army for three years and four months. He was mustered out of serve on January 14, 1865.
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Robert M. Ward Photograph Collection - Accession 502
Robert M. Ward
The Robert M. Ward Photograph Collection consists of approximately 400 prints and 900 negatives from the photographs that he took in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Most of the events and individuals pictured are from the York County, SC area and include the Latta House in York, South Carolina, downtown Rock Hill, parades, baseball, military, aviation, sports, and other York County buildings and scenes. Also included are photographs of Landsford Canal State Park, York Technical College, Winthrop University, Catawba Indian chieftain King Haigler’s memorial, Andrew Jackson State Park, Kings Mountain State Park, Hall of Fame Golfer Sam Sneed's visit to Rock Hill, SC, and Charleston, South Carolina. The collection also contains newspaper articles from the York Observer, dated from 1988 to 1992, which helped to identify some of the people and events in the pictures.
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Julius Waties Waring Papers - Accession 253
Julius Waties Waring
Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968) was a Charleston attorney, federal district court judge, and civil rights activist. He oversaw several pivotal civil rights cases in South Carolina as a federal district court judge. The Julius Waties Waring Papers consist of transcripts of interviews with Waring conducted by Dr. Harlan B. Phillips and Louis M. Starr of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University in New York City, discussing such subjects as Waring’s career as an attorney in Charleston, South Carolina, appointment to the Federal District Court, and judicial cases with which he was involved relating to bus segregation. There are also resolutions, newspaper clippings, biographical data, opinions of Judge Waring, speeches, correspondence, and other papers relating to his judicial career. The originals of these materials are located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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George Washington Papers - Accession 133 - M60 (75)
George Washington
The George Washington Papers includes a circular (21 pp.) from George Washington to John Matthews, Governor of South Carolina, dispatched from Washington’s headquarters at Newburgh, New York on June 14, 1783 and concerning Washington’s resignation as commander-in-chief. Washington also urges the legislators to act on certain matters that he considers necessary to keep the new nation functioning, including the payment of public debts incurred during the war. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and letters relating to how Winthrop obtained the circular.
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James Watson's Civil War "Camp Reminiscences" - Accession 452 - M186 (227)
James Adams Watson
James Adams Watson (1840-1905) served as 1st Lieutenant in Company A, 12th South Carolina Volunteers in the Confederate State Army during the American Civil War. Mr. Watson was a York, SC native and his father Rev. Samuel Lytle Watson was pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church in York County, SC. The James Watson Reminiscence consists of the Civil War “Camp Reminiscences” (1861-1865) by James Adams Watson which were compiled by Eleanor Guy Bankhead, Watson’s granddaughter in 1965.
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Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Programs - Accession 85 - M36 (48)
Waxhaw Presbyterian Church
The Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Program collection consists of programs printed to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, South Carolina. One was produced by the First Presbyterian Church of Rock Hill, SC held on May 8, 1955 to honor the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church and the other was produced by the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church on July 24, 1955.
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History of Waxhaws District Settlement - Accession 721 - M328 (380)
Waxhaws, SC and E. E. Cloud
The History of the Waxhaws District Settlement consists of a paper titled The Settlement of the Waxhaws written by Mrs. Jessie Hough Cloud (Mrs. E. E.). The history charts the beginning of the Waxhaw settlement in1751 up through the early 19th Century.
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Henry Weakfield Land Plat - Accession 590 - M254 (303)
Henry Weakfield
The Henry Weakfield Land Plat is a 6 ½” x 4” handwritten survey and land plat from Burke County, North Carolina, for Henry Weakfield dated April 8, 1789. The item is witnessed by Charles Weakfield and Josiah Clark and signed by David Vance and W.W. Hill (?).
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Ross Webb: Music Collection - Accession 1082 - M492 (543)
Ross Allan Webb
This collection consists of sheet music and various music compositions from 1899 until 1949 collected by former Winthrop professor Dr. Ross Allan Webb (1923-2003). Dr. Webb was a professor of History at Winthrop from 1967-1989 and professor emeritus from 1989 to 2003.
See attached inventory for list of sheet music in the collection.
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Ross Webb Papers - Accession 1135
Ross Allan Webb
This collection consists of papers from Dr. Ross A. Webb (1923-2003), Historian Emeritus from Winthrop University. Significant research includes the history of Winthrop College, genealogy of Benjamin Helm Bristow, Webb’s history class notes, and preliminary drafts of his book The Torch is Passed. The files contain documents, commentary, correspondence, and articles describing the founding of Winthrop, its move from Columbia to Rock Hill, Founders Day, its coat of arms, an annual chronology of growth, the presidents, traditions, student life, campus activities, course curriculum, Board of Trustees records, administration & faculty, distinguished alumni, library services, athletics, organizations, publications, introduction of coeducation, legislative issues, statistical analysis, history lectures, family genealogy, civic engagement, newspaper articles, and drafts of Ross Webb’s books.
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We Come, America: Pageant of Women in Industry Program - Accession 90 - M39 (52)
We Come, America: Pageant of Women of in Industry
The We Come, America: Pageant of Women in Industry program is a program for a pageant presented at the Southern Textile Exposition in Greenville, SC under the auspices of the YWCA on May 7-8, 1919.
The pageant was designed to depict "...with song, motion and color, the part Woman has played in the industrial development of the [United States] , both before and since [World War I]."
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Mary L. Wells Painting - Accession 1099 - M698 (754)
Mary Love Wells
This collection consists of a painting done by Mary L. Wells of the Bratton House at which is part of Historic Brattonsville near McConnells, SC. The Bratton House was built around 770 and is one of the oldest structure’s in York County, SC. The house belonged to Colonel William Bratton and was the located near the site of the Battle of Huck’s Defeat in May 1780 during the American Revolutionary War.
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White Family Papers - Accession 52 - M24 (35)
White Family
The White Family Papers consist of a biographical sketch of Ann White, daughter of David Hutchinson (n.d).
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White Family Papers - Accession 97
White Family
The White Family Papers consist of a genealogical chart of the White family of Rock Hill, SC, four American Civil War letters of Rev. James Spratt White I (1841-1891) written in 1865 to his sister Mary Elizabeth White from the battle front near Richmond, Virginia, in which Spratt expresses alarm at General Sherman’s march through South Carolina; discusses how the weather hampered military operations, the problem of dealing with General Joseph Wheeler’s Confederate forces, often criticized for their lack of discipline, and the military conditions of various Confederate troops. There is also correspondence, newspaper clippings, program notes, bylaws, membership and officer lists relating to the role of James Spratt White II (1878-1950), Rock Hill, SC resident and veteran of the Spanish American War, in organizing and promoting the William J. Neely Camp of Spanish American War veterans.
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White Family Photograph Album Collection - Accession 717
White Family
The White Family Photograph Album Collection consists of 4 volumes of photographs taken by J. S. White of Rock Hill, SC of family members, friends, vacations, Rock Hill, SC, and of Winthrop from 1891-1897. One of the albums includes pictures from J.S. White’s tour of duty in the South Carolina Infantry during the Spanish American War.
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White-Sprunt Family Papers - Accession 1472
White Family and Sprunt Family
The White/ Sprunt family are descendants of George Pendleton and Ann Hutchinson White who helped shepherd in Rock Hill, SC’s beginnings. The White/Sprunt family would go on to become one of the leading families of Rock Hill and their descendants would help shape and mold Rock Hill’s history. The White/Sprunt Family Papers consists of photographs, glass plate negatives, correspondence, books, text books, and the Jeanie Sprunt White Diaries. The photographs and negatives are of vacations, family members, and life in Rock Hill, SC from the 1880s to the 1930s. The majority of the books in this collection are textbooks dating from the 1880s with the oldest being from 1848. The Jeanie Sprunt White Diaries consists of 23 dairies kept by Rock Hill resident Jeanie Sprunt White. Jeanie Sprunt White was married to James Spratt White, Jr. of the prominent White Family of Rock Hill, SC. The diaries cover everyday life in Rock Hill, SC from when Jeanie Sprunt White from 1896 to 1937. She discusses all the major events that occurred in Rock Hill including the major flood of 1916 and the tornado of 1926.
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Henry F. White Collection - Accession 674 - M297 (348)
Henry F. White
The Henry F. White Collection consists of an arithmetic notebook (1830-1831) belonging to Henry F. White, given to the Winthrop College Museum by his grandson W.H. White of Catawba, South Carolina in 1945. The notebook contains excellent examples of early 19th century penmanship and arithmetical lessons including equations and rules taught at an unknown school (possibly Ebenezer Academy?). There is a mention of a teacher named David Daniel.
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Mary Harriet White Collection - Accession 314 - M130 (165-166)
Mary Harriet White
The Mary Harriet White Papers consist of family history notes, sketches, charts, and data on the Lindsay, Winslow, Gardner, Trott, and White families. There are also papers relating to Ann Hutchinson White of Rock Hill, SC, her family and house; sketches, accounts, and anecdotes of the White homestead, Rock Hill’s oldest home; and a valedictory address by Betsy Jennings White.
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Whitener Family History - Accession 706 - M108 (138)
Whitener Family
The Whitener Family History consists of a history written by Robert Campbell Whitener, Sr. in 1987 titled "Gold Mining Son of a Gold Miner" David William Whitener: His Ancestors and Descendants 1717-1987.
