A South Carolina Courthouse

Jim Dow, photographer
Kershaw County Court House,
Camden, South Carolina
Dye coupler color photograph, ca. 1975
Prints & Photographs Division
Seagram County Court House Archives,
© Jim Dow
Gift of the Seagram Company, 1980 (88.8)

This 1826 Greek Revival courthouse by Robert Mills is a fitting example of the courthouse as symbol of democracy. It is one of more than 11,000 courthouses photographed in a project that created the most comprehensive survey to date of an American building type. Commissioned by Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. to mark the bicentennial of the United States of America, the Seagram County Court House Archive was presented as a gift to the Library of Congress in 1980.