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Print - 1978
This is a print on heavy rag paper. The composition is vertically oriented and abstract. At the top of the composition, there is a band made of a series of horizontal lines of pale green hatching. Under this is a larger area of color. The same layered hatching is used, but more colors are involved: gold, yellow, blue, dark gree, magenta. This area appears somewhat muddy. The area under this is less dense and features unidentifiable script-lik...
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Painting
This painting shows a view of the exterior of the University of South Carolina Faculty House looking eastward. It has swaths of color over lineart of the Faculty House.
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Painting
Multicolor Mullen's painting that has columns divided into small blocks that have a variety of colors for each block. There are ten columns of blocks.
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Painting - 1992
J.C. Moore Collection. Large, abstract painting on canvas; horizontal orientation. Several diagonal lines in red, orange, and white appear throughout composition; upper quarter of canvas is mainly pink with small brushstrokes of white and gray; middle third contains several abstract shapes and a long orange/yellow arc; bottom third is mainly gray with pink and white brushstrokes.
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Painting - 1991
Abstract painting titles Gene's (Blue #6) with multicolor images. Red, green, blue and yellow are the colors most used.
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Painting
Painting depicts red store building in middle of composition. Signs that read "Groceries," "Coca-Cola," and "Meats" are on the front of the store. There are trees behind the building and on both sides. There is a fence extending from both sides of store; a road runs in front of store. Painting is signed by artist in bottom left corner.
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Painting - Unknown
Small watercolor painting of a street scene. The center contains an orange road with splashes of purple. On either side of the road, there are rows of buildings that are green ,purple, olive, and brown. Two have red pointed roofs. On the right side, there are two pink columns. On the left, there is one pink column. The background contains a green mountain and a blue sky.
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Meteorite - 02/13/1839
Thin slice of light gray to dark gray stony meteorite with a mottled appearance. Nickel iron grains stand out noticeably as the only material in the sample with a brilliant metallic luster. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 103.
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Meteorite - 1844
Large mass cut through, polished an etched. The etched face clearly shows grain boundaries of the multiple Iron-nickel phases present in the specimen. The knobby and pitted outer surface is an expression of the large grain size so evident in the polished and etched face. The original dark, reddish-brown crust covers the remaining surface area that has not been etched and polished. It is a portion of a nickel-iron meteorite originally weighi...
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Meteorite
3 fragments, each around 20 g, from amongst over 30 tons so far recovered. Responsible for the creation of Barringer (Meteor) Crater (1200 m in diameter, 170 m deep) near Flagstaff, AZ. Notable for being the first terrestrial feature positively identified as an impact crater. 7.1% Ni; 0.46% Co; 0.26% P; 1% C; 1% S; 80ppm Ga; 320ppm Ge; 1,9ppm Ir Coordinates of site: 35deg03' N and 111deg 02' W
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Meteorite
Fell at 5.15 PM on May 2, 1890. Large meteorite. Dropped accompanied by noise. Blackened rim and smooth appearance suggests rotation during fall. Uncut and unpolished. The crust shows some large irregular pits along with a slightly knobby surface. Dark brown in color with slight coloration of oxidation in some areas.
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Barite
Large heavy sample of pearly white opaque tabular intergrown plates of barite with much veining of bright green porcelaneous and fibrous malachite. Numerous vugs also contain colorless hexagonal quartz drusy.
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Celestine
Large, heavy mass of finely-striated radiating white to pale blue celestine crystals. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 16.
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Biotite
Large black irregularly shaped sheet of biotite mica with a euhedral clear hexagonal muscovite mica crystal included (longest dimension 7.1 cm).
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Silver
Cluster of translucent scalenohedral, rhombic, and massive calcite with many curls of tarnished black wire silver.
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Galena
Heavy sample of silvery gray metallic cubic galena on a base of white massive mineral (probably barite). The galena has much colorless and pale purple transparent cubic fluorite on many of the crystal faces, while the fluorite is in turn included with tiny yellow metallic pyrite crystals and red sphalerite crystals. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 121. It was...
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Valentinite
Specimen consists of four clusters of cream colored translucent platy aggregates of valentinite on dark gray metallic cubic and octahedral galena. Two small clusters of colorless quartz drusy are also present.
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Manganese Dendrites
Large rectangular slab of fine-grained tan limestone with black dendritic growths on both sides of the slab. Lewis Reeves Gibbes, identified this specimen as Wad; a term that was used to reference the various black mineral substances; it is more accurately dendritic manganese oxide. Listed in the historic Catalog of Minerals as: Wad, fine dendritic sp., on buff limest., No loc. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Mine...
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Aeschynite
A sample of iron-stained feldspar with large black muscovite crystals and a single black, waxy, prismatic crystal of aeschynite. ** RADIOACTIVE ** Chemical Composition: (Ce, Ca, Fe, Th)(Ti, Nb)2 (O, OH)6
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Psilomelane
A sample of black, metallic and dull, globular - or spheroidal - aggregates of cryptomelane. One area has slightly elevated radioactivity due probably to trace elements included in the chemical make up. ** WEAKLY RADIOACTIVE **
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Rhodochrosite
Large sample of dark pink well formed rhombohedral crystals of rhodochrosite in milky massive quarts with clusters of colorless slender quartz crystals. Large crystals of colorless anglesite are also present, as well as massive silver metallic galena and small amounts of yellow metallic pyrite.
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Malachite
Small cut and polished fragment of layered light and dark green botryoidal malachite, with silky luster (visible on unpolished surface).
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Malachite
Small cluster of three to four fibrous bright green malachite pseudormorphs after tabular azurite. Gray granular matrix is also present as are a few small bright blue translucent azurite crystals.
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Aragonite
Isolated cluster of chatoyant gray translucent twinned (penetration) crystals of aragonite, forming short pseudohexagonal columns. Additional crystals occur on one flat end of the formation.
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Olivenite
Specimen consists of a vug surrounded by colorless translucent hexagonal quartz crystals surrounding a cavity filled with radiating clusters of dark green acicular olivenite crystals. Surfaces adjacent to quartz crystals are smooth and orange.
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Apatite
Cluster of small and a few large transparent dark green to light gray short hexagonal crystals of fluorapatite with faint striations along the length of the crystal faces. The base of the specimen is covered in small colorless to white rhombohedral calcite crystals (drusy).
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Pyromorphite
Specimen is a heavy vesicular mass of black metallic material with green adamantine granular pyromorphite in numerous vugs. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 125. It was a part of the college's original acquisition from Thomas Cooper in 1821.
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Mimetite
Specimen consists of greenish brown barrel shaped and massive mimetite crystals in the cavities of a galena rich rock. The crystals are characteristic of this variety of mimetite (campylite) and of the locality. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 125.
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Pyromorphite
This sample consists of tiny, translucent, bright green, barrel-shaped crystals of Pyromorphite on matrix. Pyromorphite is a lead phosphate mineral, and this specimen was collected in 1926.
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Vivianite
Small fragment of dark gray rock with thin white veins. One surface is covered with small dark bluish black narrow blades of vivianite with smooth crystal faces and splintery, steplike fracture. A small formation of massive yellow metallic pyrite is present on the opposite side of the sample.
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Chalcophyllite
Tiny hexagonal platy crystals of opaque greenish blue chalcophyllite are scattered over matrix which in some areas is tan and botryoidal, and vesicular in other areas.
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Wavellite
Specimen is a mass of radiating bursts of fibrous Wavellite, ranging from green at the center to gray around the margin, on gray, iron stained matrix. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C., though it was likely added around 1900. It was obtained from Albert E. Foote, an early US mineral dealer from Philadelphia.
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Wulfenite
Flat layered sample of snowy white opaque massive calcite with one surface covered with amber orange flat tabular (almost square) plates of wulfenite. Most crystals have grown on one end, at an oblique angle to the calcite layer.
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Staurolite
Four isolated penetration twins of reddish brown, dull, prismatic staurolite crystals, with faint striations on all crystal faces. Twinning is nearly 60 degrees.
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Staurolite
Two small isolated penetration twins of dark brown, dull, prismatic staurolite crystals, with remnants of phyllitic matrix including mica and garnets. One twin is nearly 60 degrees, while the other is nearly 90 degrees.
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Titanite
Cluster of colorless to gray rhombohedral crystals (possibly adularia feldspar) with flat translucent greenish plates of titanite, one of which is twinned. The entire cluster is coated with tiny gray micaceous crystals. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 99.
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Beryl
Specimen consists of a single isolated crystal of pale blue green transparent hexagonal beryl with a flat termination. One crystal face is much longer than the rest giving the crystal a flat or tabular appearance.
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Beryl
Specimen consists of a single isolated crystal of pale blue green transparent hexagonal beryl with a flat termination and two areas of darker blue color. One face has embayments where two beryl crystals had grown next to this specimen.
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Beryl
Isolated partial crystal of greenish blue translucent hexagonal aquamarine (beryl) with muscovite mica embedded in most crystal faces. Crystal is tapered and broken obliquely at one end, while the other end is broken perpendicular to the C-axis.
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Hornblende
Two large black opaque prismatic hornblende (amphibole) crystals with pale yellow translucent massive calcite matrix. Larger crystal is nearly complete and terminated.
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Heulandite
Cluster of numerous white to grey, vitreous, translucent, blocky tabular heulandite crystals with white to grey, vitreous, prismatic, radiating aggregates of stilbite crystals (identified as epistilbite on the specimen label).
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Haüyne
Thin veins of blue vitreous haüyne in granular, gray green olivine, variety forsterite matrix. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 95.
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Celestine
Large, heavy mass of pearly white bladed intergrown massive celestine with fine striations. Although record in the Historic Catalog could not be determined, handwritten historic labels in Lewis Reeves Gibbes' handwriting are associated with the specimen.
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Celestine
Large, heavy mass of finely-striated slightly radiating white to pale blue celestine crystals, with small pearly white to pale yellow rhombohedral crystals of dolomite clustered on one side. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 16.
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Celestine
Two specimens of fibrous pearly pale blue fibrous celestine in dark gray limestone. This sample is included in the Catalogue of the Collection of Minerals in the College of S. C. and can be found on page 16.
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Celestine
Pale blue pearly translucent partial crystal of tabular celestine. No matrix.
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Celestine
Fragment of limestone with clusters of tall slender colorless to pale blue prismatic and well-terminated celestine crystals. Each cluster emanates from a central point and radiates outwards.
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