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Seafaring Mascots & Four Legged Friends

Unnamed terrier gets a pet from a sailor aboard the USS Orion (AS-18) in Guantanamo Bay, 1947. Animals have long been used for practical military service. Horses, camels, and elephants have hauled soldiers, supplies, and weapons. Pigeons have carried messages, while dogs guarded troops and tracked enemies. Many have also…

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Museum Partners with Warren Lasch Conservation Center to Restore a Colonial Ceramic Vessel

Conservation of museum collections usually involves those objects that are fragile or unstable.  Textiles such as Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s dress, furniture such as the Robert Walker bed at the Joseph Manigault House, or wood from archaeological contexts such as the pilings from the city’s early fortifications often require conservation treatment…

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Pollution Prevention

National Pollution Prevention Week begins the third Monday of September every year and focuses on reducing pollution production at the source. The Pollution Prevention (P2) Act was passed in 1990 by Congress with the goal of establishing a source reduction program within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which would collect…

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A Luxurious Charleston: Chatelaines

Macaroni chatelaine marked by Jean Antoine Lepine, Paris, 1797. Belonged to Eliza Izard Pinckney.     “Madame moves quietly here to there, Step by step, stair to stair,  Aloft she carries candle with flame, Light catching the silver of her chatelaine.”    “A really fancy tool belt,” is how one might…

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Remnants of “Hessian” Fort Possibly Under Battery Pringle

Some years ago, on a trip to England, Larry Cadigan, a long-time volunteer in the Museum’s archaeology department, brought back a photocopy of an 18th century map he had identified that showed a “Hessian” redoubt on the Stono River on James Island. Ron Anthony, the Museum’s Archaeologist, suspected that the…

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