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Print shows General Andrew Jackson, American soldiers, African Americans, and irregulars firing on the advancing British forces from behind bales of cotton at the Battle of New Orleans.

Jean Mason and friends in 1937 dance "The Big Apple" during an SAE fraternity house party. The Pavilion (1935-1959) was home to many University of South Carolina dancers who observed blacks in Columbia's Big Apple nightclub originated a dance that a troupe took to New York. From meager beginnings in a former Jewish synagogue turned nightclub in Columbia to the nickname of New York City, the Big Apple was the dance of the 1930s.

The Rifle Guards appear, with drawn bayonettes, in the 800 block of Front Street in front of Steele's Opera House. The opera house was located on the second floor of this building which stood on the north side of Front Street, about where Belk was situated in 1978, and which is now Augustus and Carolina. A dispensary operated on the first floor to the right, and a dry goods store to the left. The building was just down the street from Atkinson's Meat Market.

Print shows Benjamin Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform; in oval.

Member, South Carolina State House of Representatives from the city parishes of St. Philip’s and St. Michael’s for the Eleventh (1794–1795), Twelfth (1796–1797), and Thirteenth (1798–1799) General Assemblies. Served as Speaker of the House for the Thirteenth General Assembly. Elected an associate justice of the South Carolina Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas on December 18, 1799, serving until his resignation on May 1, 1804. Appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in March 1804, serving until his death on August 4, 1834.