Cardstock hand fan with wooden stick handle. Front shows a painting by Frederic Gauley titled "A Real Thrill" picturing a boy in a red coat excitedly catching a fish, with a dog jumping beside him.
The reverse features advertising for Greer Bakery.
White canvas with hand-painted art. Center is a large, full-color peach. Curved around the top are the words "S.C. Peach Festival" and flat across the bottom "Greer S.C."
This banner appears in some photographs of the peach festival.
1: D. D. Davenport High School, Greer, SC
2: Graded School, Greer, S.C.
3: The Song of Chick's Spring (1914)
4: Greer Drug Co. Greer, S. C.
5: Chick's Springs Hotel, near Greer, S. C.
6: Supt. Residence, Victor Mill, Greer, S. C.
7: Emma Street Greer's S.C. (1910)
8: Mostella St., Greer, S.C.
9: Views, Greers, S.C. (1910)
10: The Rexall Store, Greer, S. C. (1919)
11: Tooley's Store Arlington Rd.
12: City Park Greer, S. C.
13: Street Scene, Greers, S. C. (1910)
14: I'd like to spend a day with you in Greer, S. C.
A drawing (or retouched photograph) of May (or Mae) Davenport as a teenager. May Davenport, 1876-1896, was the daughter of D. D. and Mattie Davenport, and sister of Malcolm Davenport. She married John D. Wood on November 6, 1895, and died of unknown causes just four months later on March 19, 1896.
Mill tokens were given out to mill employees as an advance on their pay. The catch was they could only be used in the mill general store. Since minting coins was expensive, many mills shared coinage with surrounding mills and differentiated them by punching the first letter of the mill name in them. Victor Mill coins came in 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, and even one dollar variants.
Mill tokens were given out to mill employees as an advance on their pay. The catch was they could only be used in the mill general store. Since minting coins was expensive, many mills shared coinage with surrounding mills and differentiated them by punching the first letter of the mill name in them. Victor Mill coins came in the 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, and even one dollar variants.
Tinned steel box, lacquered black; double red striping top and bottom. This box, likely from the mid- to late-1800s, was kept for generations in a drawer of a hallway secretary. It held numerous letters and photographs. They center around the families of William Clark and Victoria Cunningham Bailey, their daughter Etta, and her husband William Wesley Burgiss.
White loomed bed cover made by Millie Staggs Fisher around 1875-90. She was great grandmother to J.B. Howell. Grandfather (A.G.Howell) had grocery store corner of W. Poinsett and Main.
