Daisy Melvina Jones Davis Massey Fox Collection

Items

• Greer High School report card 1933-34: James Massey

  Greer High School Report card, 1933-34, Grade 9, Section 28. Student James Lewis Massey; address 4 – 14 St Victor; Parent Daisy Massey.
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  Photograph: 1957 Leader Store sale, WCKI advertising

  Photograph of the interior of The Leader Department Store, 201 Trade Street, on the morning of March 6, 1957. The afternoon before, they had run ads for a cloth sale on WCKI Radio; this photo, taken by the Communication Manager for WCKI, was intended to demonstrate the effectiveness of radio advertising. About 25 women, including Black women, are shown looking at tables full of fabric. Prices range from 39 cents per yard to $1.00 per yard.
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  Photograph: Daisy, Margaret, and Tallie in front of RJ Davis house

  Photograph of the Davis family. Cut from one photo album then mounted in another, and then cut from that one. Handwritten text below the photograph reads" Mamma – Margaret – Tallie & Me – Grandma R. J. Davis House E. Poinsett St, Greer, – 1924"
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  Photograph: Greer High School faculty, 1933-34

  Original photograph of the Greer High School faculty for 1933-34, showing 21 men and women standing on the front steps of the Davenport High School building. The photo is glued to a sheet of heavy paper, which appears to have originally been in a memory album. A handwritten inscription on the paper under the photo reads "Greer High Faculty — Davenport Hi — 1933-34.
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  Photograph: Draw-in Room, Victor Mill, 1906

  Photograph of the draw-in room of Victor Mill, 1906. Photograph is on a cabinet card, and was glued into a memory album. Handwritten in pencil in the lower left corner of the photo is "1906." In the album, under the photograph, is a handwritten note: Draw-In Room – Victor Mill – Greer Mother 4th in Row – Made around 1906 Glued on the back of the memory album page were several newspaper clippings.
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  Photograph: portrait of Olin Gaines and family

  Cabinet Card photograph embossed with a very early Drace stamp: "C.W.Drace, Greers, S.C." The photograph shows Greer's first telegraph operator, Olin Gaines; his wife, Taccoa Cannon Gaines; son Charlton; and daughter Margarite. Olin A. Gaines was Greer's first telegraph operator, working for the Southern Railroad for 20 years. He then worked with Victor Monaghan for 35 years, and was assistant paymaster by the time of his death on August 17, 1936. This photo card was mounted in a memory album, and later cut out of it. A large piece of the album page remains around the photograph, and notes about the family are written on it. On the back are torn areas where things were removed from the album, and a couple partial documents: an admission ticket to a Greenville Horse Show, and an exhibitor tag from the 1946 Savannah Horse Show Assn.
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  Photograph: portrait of C. W. Drace

  Original photograph of Charlie Drace, originally mounted in a memory album, then cut out.