Interior of Zeigler's Drug Store located on the corner of Dargan and West Evans Street. Dr. Roland Zeigler is behind the counter at the soda fountain. The other two men behind the counter are unidentified. The small boy is Henry Jeffers with his...
South Carolina; Georgetown County; Hobcaw Barony; Guests at Hobcaw
In a photo taken in January 1963 on her last visit to Hobcaw Barony, actress ZaSu Pitts sits with Bernard Baruch in the sun room at Bellefield Plantation, Belle’s home at Hobcaw Barony. Film star and comedienne from the 1930s to the 1960s,...
South Carolina; Georgetown County; Brookgreen Gardens, Early Brookgreen, Construction
Youth Taming the Wild, by Anna Hyatt Huntington, is seen to the left of this undated photograph. Made of limestone, it was placed in Brookgreen in 1933.
This pre-Civil War house was started on Waccamaw Neck by Thomas Young but was never finished. After Youngville Plantation was acquired by Bernard Baruch in 1905, the deserted building remained until the miid-1930s, when it was razed in clearing a...
South Carolina; Georgetown County; Hobcaw Barony; Plantation Scenes
A c.1905 glass lantern slide of what is believed to be the ruins of Youngville Plantation’s house or an outbuilding, located at the site of present day Bellefield House at Hobcaw Barony. In 1916, artist Aston Knight created an oil painting for...
Essie Smith Porter stands on the beach at Pawleys Island. Essie was related to the Bellune family through her mother, Isabelle Viola Bellune. She was a registered Nurse and served as a Home Service Nurse during the flu epidemic during World War I.
A young woman identified as :Essie Smith Porter (1892-1974), my first cousin", stands on the beach at Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Essie was married to Harry Tappin Porter (1892-1937). See photo 19-097-GL.
