Letter from Isaac H. Kempner to H. E. Bailey informing that the Texas Prudential Insurance Company was sold to the Western and Southern Life Insurance Companies.

Handwritten letter to Harris L. Kempner discussing an upcoming plan to travel to Galveston while in Dallas and other travel plans.

Postcard of a drawing of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. The drawing centers the monument with bright green foliage surrounding it, a tree in the foreground, and a pink and orange sunset behind the obelisk. On the reverse is text from Tsung-O Cheng to Harris L. Kempner informing him he arrived in D.C. last night and will stop in several American cities before arriving in Galveston on September 15.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Commander L. A. L. Herbert telling him that his thoughts have been with him and wishing him well. He then tells Mr. Herbert that him and Mrs. Kempner plan on traveling abroad that Summer but would not be leaving until July to return in October.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to the Shandon Greenhouse asking about the personality and skillset of Mr. Martil F. Mey who has recently applied for a job with him.

Letter from D. W. Kempner to Drakes Flowers asking about Martin F. Mey's credentials as a potential gardener.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to the Raysor Floral Co. asking for some information on their former employee, Mr. Martin F. Mey, who as applied for a job working for him.

Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to Drakes Flowers asking about Martin F. Mey regarding him as a person.

A report regarding a survey performed for heavy minerals in the Pleistocene Terraces of South Carolina and Georgia.

Letter from Cornelia Yerkes to her mother discussing recent travels by boat. Envelope is included.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Letter from Emma Mae Hutto to Truett Latimer discussing Latimer's recent case of the flu and the issue of allowing women to serve on juries.

Letter from I. H. Kempner to R. M. Armstrong discussing the Jack Tar Hotel.

This report provides a summary of information available on Substations in the state of South Carolina.

Report about monzanite placers in streams of the western part of the Piedmont in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The objective of the report is to describe local monazite deposits, to determine geologic controls of monazite placers in the southeastern Piedmont, and to evaluate placer potentialities of the area.

Abstract: "Monazite placers in the western Piedmont of North and South Carolina were explored by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1951-54 and are estimated to contain at least 53,000 short tons of ThO2 and 4,600 short tons of U3O8. None of these deposits is being mined."

From abstract: "This report is a survey of present and potential production of monazite from part of the Maryland-Florida section of the Atlantic Coastal Plain."

From abstract: "Sediments of the inner part of the southern Atlantic Coastal Plain have been sampled and examined for monazite." The report provides sections on general geology, field and laboratory methods, distribution of monazite, and other mineral products.

This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including vacations. The film begins with a family vacation to Charleston, South Carolina. Footage includes the "Bill Bom's Canoe Country Outfitters" storefront, men and women fishing from boats, a garden, a lighthouse, the exterior of a home, a bear, the grave of John Caldwell Calhoun, and Eugene Graham's Deep Sea Fishing building. Footage also includes women buying bananas at a market in an unidentified city (08:01-08:47). The film ends with the family at home celebrating a birthday (08:47-09:33), children playing outdoors (09:33-10:08), men fishing (10:08-11:24) and children playing in the snow (11:24-12:16).

Introduction: Rabon Creek in Laurens County, South Carolina and Big Generostee Creek in Anderson County, have large established flood plains. Preliminary investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey showed the presence of monazite in these streams, and the areas were recommended for detailed investigation.

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game in Columbia, South Carolina, between Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base cadets and Fort Jackson's Golden Arrow Dixies in the National Service Football Championship. Carswell wins the game 32-7.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Two radio disc jockeys will be shut up together in an air conditioned glass booth at the Semi-Centennial Expositon while they attempt to see which one can stay awake and broadcasting the longer. Ray Starr is manager of station WJAN in Spartanburg S. C."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ray Starr is having trouble with swelling ankles."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.