Mailer from C&D Chevrolet. The outside of the mailer is Chevrolet advertising aimed at current Chevrolet owners — ads for regular maintenance and repainting. The inside of the mailer is an informational sheet for seamstresses, focused on what different needle and scissor types are used for. Though unrelated to the automobile, this is is a chart of helpful information intended to be kept around the house as a reference sheet that would keep the Chevrolet brand in front of the housewife.
1(a): Greer First Baptist Church, 3rd building
2(b): Greer First Baptist Church, 2nd building
3(c): Greer First Baptist Church, 2nd building
4(d): Memorial Methodist Church, early building
5(e): Greer First Presbyterian Church, early parsonage to right
6(f): First Presbyterian Church, later parsonage visible
7(g): Central School after back addition added
8(h): Drace Photo reproduction, Victor Elementary School, early building
9(i): Emma Street, now W Poinsett Steet, with First Baptist on right
10(j): Drace Photo, Greert Street Scene, Trade Street
11(k): Rexall Drug Store, corner of Victoria and Trade
12(l): Trade Street, Greer Hotel, on the corner of Randall and Trade, Wood-Mendenhall Hardware visible
13(m): Randall Street, Wood Mortuary
14(n): Southern Depot
15(o): P&N Station built in 1914
16(p): Greer Manufacturing Co. (textile mill near Penn Av)
17(q): Apaclache Bridge Over S Tyger River
18(r): Chick Springs Hotel
19(s): Chick Springs Hotel
20(t): Chick Springs Hotel (lake)
21(u): Davenport House, Randall Street, in 2000
Notebook and CD with audio WAV files, by Abigale Belcher (daughter of Ray Belcher), as part of the Girl Scout Gold Award Project. Interviews with nine senior residents of Greer, plus transcripts. Recorded August, 2006.
The catalogue of Greers High School contains some useful information about the school, but the most valuable component is the "Short Sketch of Greers, S.C." — the first written history of the town, written about 21 years after its incorporation. The author is not noted in this publication; however, this "Short Sketch" was later republished with the author identified as Miss Anna Greene, one of the three teachers at Greers High School that year.
The catalogue is dated by the school year, 1897-98; because it would have been distributed at the beginning the year, the Sketch of Greers was almost certainly written in 1897.
The collection also contains an original copy discovered after this reproduction.
Photograph of Greer Mill Village in the 1920/30s
Outhouses behind each home and the car barns can be seen
Notes on the Back: "Carol Belcher, who lived in the 3rd house from the right, was the 1st man from Greer to be killed in World War 2. If you notice there's an outhouse behind each of the mill houses and also located in the back are 3 sets of cow stalls. The mill owned these houses and they rented them for 25 cents a room that is if u had a 4-room house you paid $1 a week. Not bad huh?"
