Abstract
The purpose of the Beaufort District Collection is to acquire, preserve, maintain and make accessible a research collection of permanent value which records the history of our area. Penn School is a critical part of that history. Prepared by Grace Morris Cordial, MLS, SL, Historical Resources Coordinator, Beaufort County Library, 27 January 2011
BDC Vertical File Headings
Vertical files are folders with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and miscellaneous paper documents.
Any study of Penn School will necessarily involve review of these materials. Most items can be photocopied
from these files. Self-service photocopies cost 10 cents per page.
Postcards
We have some postcard images of Penn School beginning approximately 1940 until the present day. These can be viewed in the BDC during our regular hours of operation.
Book and Dissertations
SC B FORTEN A tribute to Charlotte Forten by Roberta Hughes Wright (Michigan: Charro Book Company
c1993)
SC 312 PEN Beaufort County statistics, 1960 by Penn Community Services, Inc. ([S.l.] : [s.n.], 1960)
SC 370.9757 ANN 7 Annual report of the Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina [Pamphlet]: seventy-fourth year Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School.
SC 370.9757 ANN 1950 Annual report [Pamphlet] : Penn School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina : First report of The New Director, 1861-1951 : eighty-ninth year
SC 370.9757 COO Annual report of the Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School on St. Helena Island, South Carolina [Pamphlet] : eighty-first year : 1942-1943 by Rossa B. Cooley
SC 370.9757 HAR The history of the Penn School under its founders at St. Helena Island, Frogmore, South
Carolina, 1862-1908 by Yvonne Bailey Harris (Michigan; University Microfilms International, 1998)
SC 370.9757 JOR Across the bridge by Francis Jordan, (Michigan; University Microfilms International, 1998,
1991).
SC 641.5 PEN Penn School and Sea Islands Heritage Cookbook ([S.l.] : Fundcraft Publishing, Inc. c1978)
SC 975.704 TRI Of freedom unto all: an archaeological examination of the Port Royal Experiment by Michael
Trinkley, (Columbia, SC: Chicora Foundation, 1987)
SC 975.799 COO Homes of the freed by Rossa Belle Cooley, (New York: New Republic c1926)
Press c1930)
SC 975.799 DAB Sea island diary: a history of St. Helena Island by Edith M. Dabbs (Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1983)
SC 975.799 FRO “From the pages of history” 29 May 1989: Beaufort, South Carolina by Beaufort County (S.C.). Dept. of Veterans Affairs. (Beaufort, S.C.: Beaufort County Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 1989).
SC 975.799 PEN Penn--a history (Columbia, S.C.; Office of the Governor, CETA Division 1982)
Microfilm
Penn School Papers [Microfilm]
BCL has the 33 reel microfilm set of the Penn School Papers. There is an online inventory to the series at http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Penn_School.html. There is a paper copy of the inventory in the BDC Research Room. There is a printed guide to the Penn School Papers filed in the BDC under call number SC 372.757 UNI as well as a photocopy of the guide in the BDC Research Room.
Newspaper Microfilm
Unfortunately, no adequate index to the local newspapers exists. A politically incorrect index of sorts is housed in the BDC as well as behind the Reference Desk at Beaufort Branch Library. It runs approximately 1882 through 1936. Ask for the “Newspaper Index” or the “Martin Index.”
- Beaufort Catalyst (May 22, 1993 – December 31, 1995)
- Beaufort Gazette (July 16, 1903 – Present)
- Bluffton Packet (January 1994 – December 1995)
- Beaufort Republican (October 12, 1871 – October 16, 1873)
- Beaufort Times (June 21, 1944 – December 20, 1945)
- County Democrat (July 20, 1910 – December 1, 1911)
- Free South (January 17, 1863 – November 19, 1864)
- Hilton Head News (January – December 1993; January – December 1996)
- Hilton Head Report (January 1986 – March 1988)
- Hilton Head Sun (February 1988 – May 1989)
- Island Packet (January 1970 – Present)
- Lowcountry Ledger (December 1988 – December 1991)
- New South (March 15, 1862 –September 29, 1866) Also available online at http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html
- Palmetto Herald (March 17, 1864 – December 29, 1864)
- Palmetto Post (January 5, 1882 – December 27, 1906)
- Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican (October 23, 1873 – April 1874)
- Sea Islander (September 13, 1968 – December 1974)
Beaufort Branch Library LOCAL NEWSPAPER HOLDINGS LIST
- Beaufort Gazette (July 16, 1903 – Present)
- Beaufort Republican (October 12, 1871 – October 16, 1873)
- Free South (January 17, 1863 – November 19, 1864)
- New South (March 15, 1862 –September 29, 1866) Also available online at http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html
- Palmetto Herald (March 17, 1864 – December 29, 1864)
- Palmetto Post (January 5, 1882 – December 27, 1906)
- Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican (October 23, 1873 – April 1874)
Hilton Head Branch Library LOCAL NEWSPAPER HOLDINGS LIST
- Beaufort Republican (October 12, 1871 – October 16, 1873)
- Free South (January 17, 1863 – November 19, 1864)
- Island Packet (January 1970 – Present)
- New South (March 15, 1862 –September 29, 1866) Also available online at http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html
- Palmetto Herald (March 17, 1864 – December 29, 1864)
- Palmetto Post (January 5, 1882 – December 27, 1906)
- Port Royal Commercial and Beaufort County Republican (October 23, 1873 – April 1874)
Web based resources
New South newspaper (March 15, 1862 –September 29, 1866) Also available online at http://www.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/newsouth.html
There is an online inventory to the Penn School Papers series at http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Penn_School.html.
Location Codes for Materials inside the Beaufort County Library
Hilton Head Island Branch Library (HHI)
Lobeco Branch Library (LOB)
St. Helena Branch Library (STH)
Check out these materials from the Beaufort County Library:
200.9757 WOL The abundant life prevails: religious traditions of Saint Helena Island by Michael Charles Wolfe, (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2000). Available at BDC, BEA, HHI
975.799 MOM Moments from the past: an exhibition in celebration of the Penn Center of the Sea Islands
(South Carolina: I. P. Stanback Museum & Planetarium, 1993). Available at BDC, BEA, LOB
323.4 POW I will not be silent and I will be heard: Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, and Penn Center, 1964-1967 by J. Tracy Power. (South Carolina: South Carolina Department of
Archives & History, 1993) Available at ALL
975.799 JAC Yankee missionaries in the South: the Penn School experiment by Elizabeth Jacoway (Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1980). Available at BDC, BEA
975.799 TOW Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne: written from the Sea Islands of South Carolina,
1862-1884 edited by Rupert Sargent Holland (Salem, Mass: Higginson Book Co., [1996]) and another edition
by Negro Universities Press 1912. Available at ALL
975.799 DAI Reminiscences of Sea Island heritage by Ronald Daise. (Orangeburg, S.C.: Sandlapper Publishing, 1986). Available at ALL
