South Carolina; Georgetown County; Postcards; Hobcaw Barony
In a penny postcard with divided back, Mrs. Baruch writes to her daughters on Friday, July 9, 1915 from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: “Dear Ling (sic), A robber held us up at the point of a pistol this morning at 9:30 in Yellowstone Park. We had to...
South Carolina; Georgetown County; Postcards; Hobcaw Barony
In a penny postcard with divided back, Mrs. Baruch writes to her daughters on Friday, July 9, 1915 from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming: “Dear Ling (sic), A robber held us up at the point of a pistol this morning at 9:30 in Yellowstone Park. We had to...
Four men with a team of oxen in a field. The oxen have impressive horns and appear a very sturdy and capable yoke. The man in the suit bears a cast on his left hand.
South Carolina, Georgetown County, Pawleys Island; African-Americans; Architecture; Men-Clothing; Photographs
York Murrell (1906-1992) was a creek boy for Napoleon Jacobs at Fre-Ma-Nap, a 1930 cottage on the north end. According to York's daughter Rebecca Murrell Godfrey, who still lives in the Murrell family home on Waverly Road on the Pawleys mainland,...
In a c.1905 glass lantern slide a young boy, in one of four former slave villages at Hobcaw, pumps water. The former slave cabin to the left appears to have had a room added by this date. Woven fences, made without nails, are similar to fences...
South Carolina; Georgetown County; Brookgreen Gardens, Sandy Island, Bayard Wootten; Genevieve Willcox Chandler
The name of the boy is unknown. Archer Huntington hired Bayard Wootten, a North Carolina photographer, along with Genevieve Willcox Chandler, to interview and photograph the residents of Murrells Inlet and Sandy Island. Bayard Wootten's negative...
South Carolina; Georgetown County; Brookgreen Gardens, Sandy Island, Bayard Wootten; Genevieve Willcox Chandler
The young boy and the child in this 1930s photograph are not identified. Archer Huntington hired North Carolina photographer, Bayard Wootten to photograph the residents of Murrells Inlet and Sandy Island. Wootten's negative number, 2085 appears...
South Carolina, Georgetown County; Children; Clothing; Architecture
A young girl sits on a wooden boat in front of the North Island/ Georgetown lighthouse. By 1910, many Georgetown residents were traveling to North Island to enjoy the large pier and pavilion.
