• Ware Family Papers - deeds of sale, valuation of slaves 1838-1842, postbellum labor contracts
  
• Partial transcript of Wallace vs. Simpson (1868): In this case, Republican A.S. Wallace successfully challenges the legitimacy of Democratic candidate W.D. Simpson’s election to the U.S House of Representatives in the S.C. 4th Congressional District. Election was overturned on the basis of partisan practices and/or KKK violence and intimidation.
  
• Standing Springs Baptist Church, Greenville County, minutes 1818-1832
  
• Turkey Creek Baptist Church minutes 1832-1835
  
• Harper's Weekly Map Nov. 23, 1861 showing proportion of slaves in each county
• Sambo & Toney : a dialogue in three parts a discussion between slaves regarding conversion Edmund Botsford,1808
  

• The Birds of America1827, Furman's facsimile 1972
  
• The horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste 1847-1851
• South Carolina : resources and population, institutions and industries published by the State Board of Agriculture of South Carolina 1883
  
• The August cyclone. A descriptive narrative of the memorable storm of 1885. 1886
  
• The Germ: thoughts towards nature in poetry, literature, and art 1898
  

• The art of writing reduced to a plain and easy system John Jenkins, 1813
  
• The New-York mirror, and ladies' literary gazette 1830
• The New-York mirror 1830-1842
• Domestic manners of the Americans Mrs. Trollope, 1832
  
• Piano music collected by Mary A. Burckmyer. ca. 1832
  
• The Christian minstrel : a new system of musical notation [shape note] J. B. Aikin, 1846
  
• The Southern harmony, and musical companion William Walker, 1849
  
• Carolina sports by land and water : including incidents of devil-fishing, etc. Wm. Elliott 1850
  
• The true orator : an address delivered before the Adelphian Society of the Furman InstitutionJames R. Kendrick, 1850
  
• Uncle Tom's cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852, Furman's copy 1894
  
• Graham's magazine 1841-1856; Graham's illustrated magazine 1856-1858
  
• South songs : from the lays of later days collected and edited by T.C. De Leon, 1866
  
• War poetry of the South edited by William Gilmore Simms, 1867
  
• Untitled poem John Greenleaf Whittier, 1879
  
• Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1883, Furman's copy 1901 with suppressed chapter
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1884 Furman's copy 1891
  
• Manners, culture and dress of the best American society, including social, commercial and legal forms... Richard A Wells, c1890
  
• Furman University, Philosophian Literary Society records
  
• Furman University, Adelphian Society records
  
• Furman University Sports Photographs 1890s - PastPerfect
  
• In the company of books : literature and its "classes" in nineteenth-century America Sarah Wadsworth c2006
  
• The scrapbook in American life edited by Susan Tucker, Katherine Ott, and Patricia P. Buckler, 2006
  

• Edmund Botsford Family Collection 4 boxes 1785-1819 letters, sermons, essays, diary includes letters to Rev. Richard Furman
  
• Brown, C.C.– 10 boxes attended Furman 1870-1871, most materials re: SC Baptist Convention
  
• Johnson, William Bullein– 2 boxes 1st President Southern Baptist Convention, papers from 1831-1862 sermons and correspondence
  
• Turkey Creek Baptist Church records 1785-1909
  
• Greenville First Baptist Church records
  
• Standing Springs Baptist Church, Greenville County records 1818-1918
  
• Southern Baptist Theological Seminary records, beginning in 1859
  
• Reedy River Baptist Association minutes and other records, 1826 to present
  
• Savannah River Baptist Association minutes and other records, 1820 to present
  
• Charleston Baptist Association minutes and other records, 1775-1910
  
• Christian missions entitled to support: a discourse James C. Furman, 1839
  
• Annual, South Carolina Baptist Convention 1842 to present, minutes of SC Baptist convention includes information on educational institutions supported by Convention
  
• The gospel developed through the government and order of the churches of Jesus Christ William Bullein Johnson 1846
  
• An historical discourse : delivered before the Charleston Baptist Association James C. Furman, 1851
  
• Ministerial piety : an essay read before the Piedmont Ministers' Institute James C. Furman, 1881
  
• The rise and progress of religion in the soul: illustrated in a course of serious and practical addresses [addressed largely to native population].Rev. Philip Doddridge, 1804
  
• The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Greenville, S.C., September, 1859-May, 1877 : historical reminiscences Robert W. Sanders
  
• A Baptist map of the state of South Carolina : showing the location of all white Baptist churches in the state, Spec Coll Folio, 1895
  
• The Life Work Of James Clement Furman Harvey Toliver Cook, 1926
  
• Richard Furman: Life and legacy James A. Rogers, 1985
  
• A Baptist faith : William Bullein Johnson and his interpretation of the Baptist identity Douglas W. Watson, 2002
  
• The life and work of William Joseph McGlothlin Carl Wesley Wilkinson, III, 1980

• Turkey Creek Baptist Church, minutes 1813-1816, 1834-1839, 1850
  
• Standing Springs Baptist Church, Greenville County minutes 1830-1832
  
• Furman University Historical Records RG 45 004 and 005A - records of student crimes 1841, 1859, 1894
  
• Partial transcript of Wallace vs. Simpson (1868): In this case, Republican A.S. Wallace successfully challenges the legitimacy of Democratic candidate W.D. Simpson’s election to the U.S House of Representatives in the S.C. 4th Congressional District. Election was overturned on the basis of partisan practices and/or KKK violence and intimidation.
  

• Ware Family Papers, liens on crops 1889-1893 plus other business records during the 19thc
  
• Thea Furman Manuscript Collection - 19thc ledgers of several businesses, includes examples of Confederate money
  
• Historical and descriptive review of the state of South Carolina, including the manufacturing and mercantile industries 1884
  

• Mims, James Sessions– 4 boxes Furman prof 1842-1855, bulk collection 1843 to 1854
  
• Furman, Richard– 12 boxes minister and pioneer educator, Furman namesake
  
• Furman, James C.– 15 boxes son of Richard, minister, President of Furman 1859-79
  
• Cook, H.T.– 4 boxes professor at Furman beginning in 1881, founder of SC Baptist Historical Collection
  
• Greenville Woman's College Collection 14 boxes: Publications, administrative, student records and photographs, 1850-1900
  
• Furman University Historical Records RG 45, Records of previous campuses
  
• Furman University Historical Records RG 45 0005A, Faculty Report re: reopening of school, 1866
  
• Historic Textbook Collection 19thc
  
• Three changes in theological institutions. An inaugural address delivered before the Board of Trustees of the Furman University James P. Boyce, 1856
  
• History of the South Carolina College, 1801 to 1857 M. La Borde, 1859
  
• The value of classical studies. An address delivered at Greenville, South Carolina, Dec. 16, 1875 D. H. Chamberlain
  
• Academy and college : the history of the woman's college of Furman University Judith T. Bainbridge, 2001
  
• Baptist beginnings in Education : a history of Furman University W. J. McGlothlin, 1926
  
• Furman University, a history Robert Daniel, 1951
  
• Furman University : toward a new identity, 1925-1975 Alfred Sandlin Reid, 1976
  
• History of Furman University: an outline Prof. S. E. Bradshaw, 1921
  

• A disquisition on government, and A discourse on the Constitution and government of the United States. John C. Calhoun. Ed. by Richard K. Cralle 1851
  
• The exiles of Florida; or, The crimes committed by our government against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina, and other slave states, 1858
  
• The constitution of South Carolina, adopted April 16, 1868, and the acts and joint resolutions of the General Assembly, passed at the Special Session of 1868, together with the military orders 1868
  
• Basil Manly Collection - military pass and pardon, 1864-1865
  

• National sins: a call to repentance. A sermon preached on the National Fast Whitefoord Smith, 1849
  [President Taylor proclaimed National Day of Fasting and Prayer for the cholera epidemic]
  
• A Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife Spencer Glasgow Welch, 1954
  

• A digested index of the statute laws of South-Carolina from the earliest period to the year 1836, inclusive William Rice
  
• The bank case. A report of the proceedings in the cases of the Bank of South Carolina, and the Bank of Charleston, 1844
  
• The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America edited by James M. Matthews, 1864
  
• Argument of William Whaley, Esq. : delivered before the Supreme Court at Columbia, S.C., on the negro bond question : Calhoun v. Calhoun, 1869
  
• The book of allegiance; or, A report of the arguments of counsel, and opinions of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, Determined on the 25th of May, 1834
  
• Proceedings in the Ku Klux trials at Columbia, S.C., 1872
   
  

• Ware Family Papers - stock certificate for Laurens Railroad Company, 1849
  
• Geography made easy : being an abridgment of the American universal geography : containing astronomical geography, discovery and general description of America...Jedediah Morse, 1800
  
• Atlas of the state of South Carolina : made under the authority of the Legislature Robert Mills, 1825
  
• The mariner's chronicle: containing narratives of the most remarkable disasters at sea, such as shipwrecks, storms, fires, and famines: Stereotyped by A. Chandler [1834]
  
• Mitchell's traveller's guide through the United States : containing the principal cities, towns ...S. Augustus Mitchell, 1838
  
• A manual of the principles and practice of road-making W.M. Gillespie, 1848
  
• Annual report of the president and directors of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company in South Carolina, 1860
  
• Proceedings of the Immigration Convention, held at the Academy of music, Charleston, S. C. May, 1870
  
• Early travel and accommodations along the roads of the upper part of Greenville County Mann Batson c1995
  
• North American immigration to Brazil : tombstone records of the "Campo" Cemetery Betty Antunes de Oliveira, 1978
  
• RandMcNally Map of South Carolina, 1895
  
• US Map showing acquisitions, 1900
  
• Greenville Railroad History since 1853 Craig A Myers, 2002

• Chicóra and other regions of the conquerors and the conquered Eastman, Mary H. 1854
  
• Greyslaer : a romance of the Mohawk, work of fiction, Charles F. Hoffman, 1840
  
• History of Alabama : and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period Albert J. Pickett, 1851
  
• History of Baptist Indian missions : embracing remarks on the former and present condition of the aboriginal tribes: Isaac McCoy, 1840
  
• History of the old Cheraws; containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, [from 1730 to 1810] Right Rev. Alexander Gregg, 1910
  
• Indian biography : or, An historical account of those individuals who have been distinguished among the North American natives as orators, warriors, statesmen, and other remarkable characters B.B. Thatcher, 1834
  
• Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1847
  
• The Iroquois; or, The bright side of Indian character Minnie Myrtle [pseud.], 1855
  
• North American Indians; being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel George Catlin, 1832-1839
  

• Ware Family Papers - Oath of Loyalty to US government
  
• The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science 1845-1850
  
• Alarming disclosures! : Secret proceedings in the Senate of South Carolina : The victim of persecution at the stake, 1857
  
• The address of the people of South Carolina assembled in convention, to the people of the slaveholding states of the United States 1860
  
• South Carolina Secession Ordnance, facsimile
  
• Echoes from the South. Comprising the most important speeches, proclamations, and public acts [1866]
  
• A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, editor by Ada Sterling, 1904
  
• American Bastille: A history of Illegal ArrestsJohn Marshall, 2004
  
  

• Indigenous races of the earth; or, New chapters of ethnological inquiry; including monographs on special departments J C. Nott.
  

• Ware Family Papers deeds of sale, valuation of slaves 1838-1842
  
• Harper's Weekly Map Nov. 23, 1861 showing proportion of slaves in each county
• Appeal to the Christian women of the South A. E. Grimké, 1836
  

• Health resorts of the South: most desirable health and pleasure resorts of the Southern states [section on Greenville] George H. Chapin, 1893
  

• Pringle, Samuel McBride– 2 boxes Furman student 1859-1861, Civil War correspondence
  
• Furman University Historical Records RG 45 005A - Faculty Reports, 1861
  
• Ware Family Papers - Confederate government loan, 1863
  
• Thea Furman Manuscript Collection - 19thc ledger includes examples of Confederate money
  
• Basil Manly Collection - military pass, 1864
  
• Furman University Historical Records RG 45 0005A, Faculty Report re: reopening of school, 1866
  
• An inquiry into the accordancy of war with the principles of Christianity; Jonathan Dymond. With a dedication to Sunday school teachers and scholars, and notes, by Thomas Smith Grimké, 1834
  
• The Confederate Baptist re: prisons and prisoners July, Dec. 1863; April, June, Dec. 1864
  
• The ordnance manual for the use of the officers of the Confederate States Army prepared under the direction of Col. J. Gorgas, 1863
  
• Prisoner of State [Union Prisoner of War] D.A. Mahony, 1863
  
• The Confederate soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865 prefaced by a eulogy by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee ; edited by Ben LaBree, c.1894
  
• Remembrances of the Civil War : the note book of John F. Lanneau, Captain, Brooks Troop, Hampton Legion, South Carolina, June 1861- June 1862 compiled by the late Donald H. Sage, 1960
  
• The Rebellion record : a diary of American events, with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry editor by Frank Moore, 1861-1865
  
• The early life, campaigns, and public services of Robert E. Lee by a distinguished southern journalist J. H. Hummel, 1870
  
• The history of a brigade of South Carolinians, known first as "Gregg's" and subsequently as "McGowan's brigade" J.F.J. Caldwell, 1951
• Advance and retreat. Personal experiences in the United States and Confederate States armies. J. B. Hood Published for the Hood Orphan Memorial Fund [by] G. T. Beauregard, 1880
  
• Confederate view of the treatment of prisoners. Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., secretary Southern Historical Society 1876
  
• The Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 1, 1911 - DLL office
  
• A Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife Spencer Glasgow Welch, 1954
  

• Ware Family Papers, Box 1- property rights 1807-1826, costs of education 1850-1856
  
• Thursday Club Papers, Box 9 "Women at War" [Civil War] paper given April 2008
  
• Judson, Charles Hallette– 3 boxes Furman prof, President Greenville Woman's College, papers 1853-1907
  
• Greenville Woman's College Collection 14 boxes: Publications, administrative, student records and photographs, 1850-1900
  
• Women's 19thc Popular Magazine Collection - single issues 1875, 1898
  
• Paula Feldman 19thC Education Collection
  
• Greenville Woman's College photographs - late 19thc-PastPerfect
  
• Women's Missionary Union of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, 1890
  
• Constitution of the Female Benevolent Society of Society Hill Printed by the Society by J. Hoff, 1818
  
• Godey's lady's book1842-1882, scattered volumes
  
• Hints on female education : with an outline of an institution for the education of females, 1828
  
• An address before the students of the Johnson Female Seminary at Anderson, S.C. August, 1850 James C. Furman
  
• Woman: her true mission and education. An address delivered before the Baptist Female College of Greenville, 1858
  
• The young lady's guide American tract society, c1870
  
• Sex in education : or, A fair chance for girls Edward H. Clarke, 1873
  
• Mrs. Hill's Southern Cookery and Receipt Book very influential Cookbook, 1872
  
• The Carolina Housewife Cookbook, 1874
  
• Reedy River Baptist Association minutes comments re: role of women, 1880 to 1930
  
• Costumes of All Nations W. Duke, Sons and Co. images of famous women to advertise cigarettes, 1888
  
• A looking-glass for ladies : American Protestant women and the Orient in the nineteenth century Lisa Joy Pruitt, c2005
  
• Academy and college : the history of the woman's college of Furman University Judith T. Bainbridge, 2001
  
• A history of popular women's magazines in the United States, 1792-1995Mary Ellen Zuckerman, 1998
  
• Southern Baptist sisters: in search of status, 1845-2000 David T. Morgan, 2003
  
• Out in public: configurations of women's bodies in nineteenth-century America Alison Piepmeier, c2004, General Collection
  
• Victorian fashions and costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898 Stella Blum, 1974 DLL office
  

II. Materials Covering Multiple Categories

• Furman Family, Richard Furman and James C. Furman Collections
  
• Ware Family Papers
  
• McKoy Scrapbook Collection - Greenville and South Carolina History
  
• The Southern Baptist and General Intelligencer a/k/a/ The Southern Baptist 1835-1867, scattered issues
  
• The Primitive Baptist Jan-May 1838
  
• The Columbian Star and Christian Index July 1829-Dec. 1830, July 1831-June 1833
  
• The Confederate Baptist Oct. 1862-Dec. 1864
  
• The Weekly Register/Niles Weekly Register
  
• The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science 1845-1852
  
• Frank Leslie's Illustrated Nov. 24, 1860 - Nov. 16, 1861 and Sept 24, 1864 - Dec. 30, 1865.
  
• The Yankee Blade1868 to 1869
  
• Putnam's monthly magazine of American literature, science and art 1853-1870
  
• Godey's lady's book1842-1882, scattered volumes
  
• The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge 1830-1853, 1861
  
• The Working Christian/ The Baptist Courier 1869 to present
  
• The United States Census 1800, 1810, 1820, 1840