The South Carolina Digital Library

The South Carolina Digital Library provides free access to historic materials from over 40 cultural heritage institutions across the state. Over 200,000 items have been added so far.

Browse Geography

Choose this option to view a county map of South Carolina. Explore SDL collections across the state.

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Browse Institutions

View the collections of the public libraries, colleges, universities, museums, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions that have contributed their material.

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Browse Media Types

This browse option categorizes collections by their media type. The media types included are images, audio, sheet music, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and objects.

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Browse Time Periods

Browse our collections using the fifteen different time periods with which we have divided up South Carolina history!

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