Mildred and Bob Blackshear - Christmas 1942 - Charleston, S.C. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Mrs. Lou Cordell, mother of 11, was designated by the navy to christen the U. S. S. Choctaw, she brought a jug of well water from her farm in Durham, Okla., to Charleston, S. C."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Lou Cordell, Durham, Okla. readies the bottle of well water she took to Charleston, S. C."

Postcard with a colored drawing of the state capitol in Columbia, South Carolina. A note from Helen Landau to her parents-in-law is written on the back.

Photograph of two cars and a group of soldiers standing outside the State Theatre in Jackson, South Carolina.

Photograph of a large group of soldiers standing by convoy vehicles in South Carolina.

Photograph of two soldiers standing next to a camouflaged tank.

Photograph of an officer and a soldier standing by a Jeep and talking. Another man sits in a car to the right.

Photograph of a tank on a dirt road in a field in South Carolina.

From abstract: Cassiterite and spodumene, of possible economic importance, occur in a belt, 24.5 miles long and 1.8 miles in maximum width, extending southwestward from Lincolnton to Grover, N. C. This belt is in the Piedmont province, an upland with an average altitude of 1,000 feet, and is readily accessible by rail and highway. The region is underlain by crystalline limestone, quartzite, schists, gneisses, and granite. The rocks strike northeast and, in most of the belt, dip steeply northwest. Most of them are deeply weathered.

From introduction: Lode and placer deposits of massive topaz rock were discovered near the old Brewer gold mine in northwestern Chesterfield County, S. C., in 1935. Preliminary tests have shown that this rock can be used in the manufacture of refractory ware and as a source of mullite, thus augmenting supplies of kyanite that have been coming from India.

Photograph of two unidentified soldier in a camp at South Carolina. The soldier on the right stands at attention with a rifle over his shoulder, and the man to the left points one hand at the other. Barracks are visible in the background.