Waring Historical Library

🎞️📽️Have you ever watched National Treasure or Night at the Museum in a room full of Archivists and Curators? If you haven’t, I highly recommend you do so! The chuckles and gasps were at an all time high!

At the Society for American Archivists 2025 conference, it’s tradition that they compile clips of archives in film throughout time. It was certainly my favorite time of the conference!

Cheers to those who attended and we will see SAA again next year!

You can register for this virtual event here: https://musc.libcal.com/event/13002967

On August 31, 1886, a massive earthquake centered near Charleston, South Carolina, and the entire Lowcountry was devastated by the quake. Following the earthquake, city authorities worried that epidemics would break out, including cholera, typhoid, and the dreaded yellow fever in the tent cities housing displaced Charlestonians. This was not an irrational fear: even in normal times, these scourges could bring a city to its knees. As it turned out, there were no epidemics in Charleston in the aftermath of the quake, either because city authorities were vigilant or because they were lucky.

Visit our online exhibit "Faults and Fractures" to learn more: https://bit.ly/FaultsFractures

Pictured: Tent city at Washington Square Park showing makeshift shelters, September 1886. (Waring Historical Library, MUSC, Charleston, SC)

The fall semester has begun and students are back in class! We hope all the new folks on campus are getting ready to hit the books! ✏️🎓

This picture comes from our MUSC photograph collection (ARC900). This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in historic images documenting the history of MUSC. Contact us to schedule an appointment to browse the collection yourself!

These dental assisting students from York Technical College gained hands-on experience by assisting a dental student at the College of Dental Medicine at MUSC. They participated in a three-week statewide program funded by the Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Pictured from left to right are Ellen Shelby, Sallie Marshall, and Tena Chitwood.

This photograph is part of our MUSC photograph collection (ARC900). This collection is an excellent resource for those interested in historic images documenting the history of MUSC. Contact us to schedule an appointment to browse the collection yourself!