Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections
Biography
The McCormick Library houses more than 235,000 of Northwestern University Library's most unusual and outstanding items and collections. The span of time and material types represented ranges from four-thousand year old Mesopotamian clay tablets to 19th century cobweb paintings to the most recent issues of feminist journals from around the world.
Formats collected include rare books and periodicals, manuscripts and archives, sound recordings, photographs, video/film, posters, prints, and realia.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Charleston County, South Carolina Records
The Carolina settlement of Charles Town, named in honor of King Charles II of England, was established after English settlers arrived in 1670; it was renamed Charleston in 1783. From 1720 until 1773 South Carolina was under English jurisdiction as a Crown Colony. This collection consists of twenty volumes of bound carbon copy transcriptions of records from Charleston County, South Carolina kept between 1719 and 1763.
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- Subject: South Carolina--Politics and government--To 1775 X