Images

Studying faces of these woodsmen who cut timber for ACL, one wonders at their reaction to being photographed. They appear quite solemn about it. ACL, which was organized in May 1899, either owned or held timber rights to a quarter of a million acres of land in eight South Carolina counties by 1916.

Men cutting pine trees.

Photograph of George Bell Timmerman and Helen in a parlor. Timmerman is standing in formal wear with his wife Helen sits nearby is an evening dress.

Tip Top Inn, in a photograph taken shortly after Hurricane Hazel struck on October 15, 1954, was repaired and stayed open for business another 35 years.

Tobacco barn made by this African Americans for 50 cents.

An elderly man looks on as a young girl ties tobacco leaves for curing.

Farmers and laborers in tobacco field.

Publicity photo of John Chancellor, Frank Blair and Edwin Newman from the television program Today (The Today Show). The show was preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary on the air at the time the photo was taken.