GHM: archive

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  Photograph: Peach Festival float with Cecila Colvert, Miss South Carolina

  J. P. Stevens & Co. Inc. Peach Festival parade float with Cecila Colvert, Miss South Carolina, and four other women. Photographed by Joe F. Jordan.
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  Photograph: Peach Festival 1961 Phyllis Parker, alternate pose

  1961 Peach Queen Phyllis Parker poses under a ladder. Photographed by Joe F. Jordan.
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  Photograph: Peach Festival 1961 Phyllis Parker

  1961 Peach Queen Phyllis Parker poses under a ladder. Photographed by Joe F. Jordan
• Photograph: 1958 Peach Festival parade float with Martha Brannon, 1957 Peach Queen

  1958 Peach Festival parade float with '57 Peach Queen Martha Brannon. Photographed by Joe F. Jordan. (duplicate of 2023.8.1)
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  Photograph: WFBC anchor Norvin Duncan at the Peach Festival

  WFBC anchor Norvin Duncan with photographed with a visiting queen (right) and another woman
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  Peach Festival newspaper articles: festival postponed

  Nearly identical articles announcing the postponement and re-evaluation of the Peach Festival, along with assurances that the event is not permanently terminated
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  Peach Festival newspaper article: tickets on sale

  Article announcing tickets prices for Peach Festival events and the expected crowds at the events
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  1967 Peach Festival newspaper article: coin given, grower honored

  Two photographs: one of Peach Queen Beth Kendrick receiving commemorative coin, one of Earle R. Taylor receiving Pioneer Peach Grower award. First photograph by R. S. Marvin.
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  1966 Peach Festival brochure

  Brochure for the 1966 Peach Festival including an itinerary and photos of previous Peach Queen Barbara Harris
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  Photograph: 1961 Peach Queen Phyllis Parker

  Photograph of 1961 Peach Queen Phyllis Parker including measurements to be circulated to news media. Photographed by Joe F. Jordan.
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  Photograph: Peach Queen Tillie receiving the trophy, 1962

  Peach Queen Tillie after receiving the Peach Queen trophy, 1962
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  Letter: Peach Festival request for Queen participants, 1959

  Letter from Duke Tucker requesting entries for beauty pageant participants for the 1959 Peach Festival
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  Letter: invitation to Peach Festival banquet, 1959

  Invitation to the Peach Growers Dinner at the 1959 Peach Festival
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  Letter: Peach Festival invitation list, 1959

  An invitation list for the 1959 Peach Festival submitted by Roy J. Ferree
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  Letter: Peach Festival auditorium reservation

  Letter from I. H. Gibson to W. N. Albergotti requesting use of the high school auditorium for the 1959 Peach Festival Beauty Pageant
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  R.P. Turner invoice to the Peach Festival

  An invoice from the R. P. Turner Company, Wholesale Grocer, for 75 Chinet plates ($1.55 including tax) purchased for the 1959 Peach Festival
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  Poinsett Restaurant invoice to the Peach Festival

  Invoice from The Poinsett Restaurant for the 1959 Peach Festival
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  Photograph: Miss USA float in the Peach Festival parade

  Miss USA on a 1957 Peach Festival parade float
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  Photograph: Float in the 1958 Peach Festival Parade with '57 Peach Queen Martha Brannon

  1958 Peach Festival parade float with '57 Peach Queen Martha Brannon. Photographed by Joe F. Jordan.
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  Photograph: Verne Smith, Martha Brannon, Adelaide Dennis, and Bennie E. Gramling at the 1958 Peach Festival

  Verne Smith offers Peach Queen Martha Brannon a peach, observed by S. C. Farm Bureau Queen Adelaide Dennis and Bennie E. Gramling. This photo appears in a Greenville News article about the Peach Festival on June 12, 1958. Photographed by James G. Wilson
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  Letter: 1957 history of peach growing

  Letter from Troy Cribbs to J. E. Boling of the Greer Chamber of Commerce explaining the history of the peach industry in the Piedmont region of South Carolina (2 sheets)
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  Letter: 1958 Peach Festival dinner invitation to peach growers

  Invitation for the Peach Growers Dinner addressed to a peach grower
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  Letter: 1957 Peach Festival luncheon invitation to peach growers

  Invitation for the Peach Growers Luncheon addressed to a peach grower of the Piedmont
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  Document: History, South Carolina Peach Festival Association

  brief summary of the South Carolina Peach Festivals from 1957-1965
• 1925 Greer High School Bantam — Lula Dillard set

  Lula Dillard's copy of the 1925 Greer High School Bantam (senior year) Handwritten signatures and notes throughout