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College Archives

These are the permanently valuable records of Wofford College and include materials such as the minutes of the Board of Trustees and the papers of presidents and faculty members.

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The Littlejohn Collection

A diverse special collection that consists of historical manuscripts, archival collections, archival ephemera, historical pamphlets, autographs and some historical objects.

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Methodist Collection

These records include the minutes of the sessions of the Annual Conference, the conference newspaper, the Southern Christian Advocate and an index of the obituaries appearing in the Advocate from 1837 to the present.

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Special Collections

Includes a collection of 16th and 17th century books, the book collections of founding and prominent Wofford professors, a Leonard Baskin collection, the slide collection of late Wofford history professor and South Carolina historian Dr. Lewis P. Jones, local history materials, and some maps, manuscripts, ephemera, and archives.

Historic photo of elderly gentleman

Advocate Obit. Index

Search an index of obituaries that have appeared in the Southern Christian Advocate, since its inception in 1837, and in its successor newspaper, the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate.

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Annual Conferences of a century ago

This was my column in the Advocate for June.  We just concluded the South Carolina United Methodist Annual Conference this we...more

Bishop William Wallace Duncan

This article appeared in the April edition of the SC United Methodist Advocate. One of South Carolina’s contributions to the ...more

The Class of 1963

Each year for the past decade, our fifty-year class returns and escorts the graduating class to the Commencement exercises.  ...more