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Detail of Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Charleston showing 8 Morris Street, Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, 1888, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Detail of Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Charleston showing 80 Morris Street at the corner of Deb Court, Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, 1951, courtesy of the Charleston County Public Library.

Detail of Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Charleston showing southwest corner of Morris and Smith Streets, Sanborn Fire Insurance Company, 1951, courtesy of the Charleston County Public Library.

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Detail of the Lowcountry in a "Map of South Carolina showing Cotton Mills, Water Powers, Streams, and Railroads," 1895, courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society.

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Detail of the Sewee Shell Ring, Francis Marion National Forest, photograph, Awendaw, South Carolina, 2011. Archaeologists have found shell rings, or shell middens, in various parts of the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. They believe they were created by American Indians living in villages along the coast, either as refuse from eating shellfish, especially oysters, or as deliberately built monuments, similar to American Indian mound building on the lower Mississippi River.

Detail, Carte de Caroline – 1695/1696 Carte Particuliere de la Caroline

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Detal of vote ticket for School Commissioner, including Gustave Pollitzer, Charleston, S.C., November 3, 1903, Anita Pollitzer Family Papers, South Carolina Historical Society.

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Devastation and destruction of homes on Coosaw Island, "The Sea Island Hurricane: The Devastation, 1894," from Scribner Magazine, sketch Daniel Smith, Sea Islands, South Carolina, 1894, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade, ca. 1790-91, courtesy of Lilly Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana University.

Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade, ca. 1790-91, courtesy of the Lilly Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana University.

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