During the 2026 spring semester, the Records Management Division welcomed Rebecca Noto. Rebecca, now a rising junior at College of Charleston, assisted us with cataloging photographs and books. In 2002, the City of Charleston transferred a selection of historical municipal records to the South Carolina Room at Charleston County Public Library. In 2022, CCPL shared digitized copies of these images with the Records Management Division. Rebecca worked on adding these scans to ou

The Records Management Division is pleased to announce that we have indexed the Speeches and Appearances Series of former Mayor Joseph P. Riley’s records, and a finding aid is available on our website. The Speeches and Appearances series of the records of Joseph P. Riley Jr. consists primarily of speeches and appearances Mayor Riley made in his role as mayor of the City of Charleston from 1975-2016. Record types include research files, notes, drafts, and final copies of spe

For Women's History Month, we are discussing the first women employed with the City of Charleston Police Department. The Women’s Bureau of the Charleston Police Department was established in July 1922 as a division that focused on women’s welfare and gender-based crimes. Its first chief was Lottie S. Olney, who was also a major player in the bureau’s inception. She was a member of the U.S. Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board when she called a meeting at the city’s Chamber

The City of Charleston Year Book was a chapter in the City of Charleston's municipal reporting that has left us with a treasure trove of data, histories, illustrations, and perspectives on life in Charleston from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. To compete with other cities that seemed to be rising from the ashes of the Civil War on the backs of modern industry, Charleston needed to prove itself. The Year Book began as a way to present Charleston as a progre