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Title
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Photograph: Draw-in Room, Victor Mill, 1906
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Accession Number
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2024.4.3
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Accession Date
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13 April 2024
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Accession Creator
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David Lovegrove
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Depositor
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Museum Acquisition
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Description
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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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Date
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1906
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Format
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paper, about 4x5
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Storage Location
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General Archives, Box 3, Folder 2
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Text
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On the front:
Draw-In Room – Victor Mill – Greer
Mother 4th in Row – Made around 1906
On the back, newspaper clipping 1:
Miss McClimon Is Honoree At Party
Mrs. Mae Wood Robison and Mrs. Dave Shepard honored Mrs. John Wood Robison, then Miss Carolinda McClimon, at a lovely party Thursday evening, March 20th.
Six tables of rummy were placed in the Daniel Apartments on Ballenger avenue, where Mrs. Robison resides, and colorful gladiolia and golden jonquils were used decoratively in the rooms.
High score for the evening went to Mrs. Ed Champion while Mrs. Olin B. Oliphant was second high scorer and winner at bingo.
The petite bride-elect was lovely in a beige silk dress with a corsage of red roses presented by the hostesses. Linen was also given the honoree by Mrs. Dave Shepard and Mrs. Robison.
Mrs. J. F. Gilreath, Mrs. Joe Brantley and Mrs. John D. Wood assisted in the serving of the refreshments, which included a frozen salad with potato chips, sandwiches, cookies and Russian tea.
Newspaper clipping 2:
I. M. (Buddy) Wood
GREER, Feb. 8—Word was received here today by Mrs. I. M. Wood of the death of her grandson, I. M. (Buddy) Wood, 23, at San Berardine, Calif.
He spent the greater part of his life here with his grandmother, Mrs. I. M. Wood, and attended Greer High School. He entered the Navy at the beginning of World War II, serving four and one half years.
He was a son of Mrs. Jocquline Wood Stock, and the late Harold Wood. He married Miss Doris Herkelrath, who survives, with his mother, Mrs. Jocquline Wood Stock, San Bernardine; one sister Mrs. Josephine Shurgar, Medina, N.Y., and his grandmother, Mrs. I. M. Wood, Greer.
Funeral services and burial will be at San Berardine.
Newspaper clipping 3:
Rites For Victims Of Auto Crash Near Greer Are Completed
Funeral services had been set today for Mrs. Alma Alexander Whitfield, 27, and Miss Maerion Stroud, 20, who were fatally injured in an automobile accident near Greer in Spartanburg county early yesterday morning.
Services for Miss Stroud were to held this afternoon at 5 o'clock at Concord Methodist... [the rest is torn out, with a few more words visible, including "Three others... the accident... slightly"]
