Since I probably won't have much time to explore Charleston this weekend, I've been touring the region online. These vintage photographs from the 1940s to the 1970s are from the Jack Keilen Collection at the Lowcountry Digital Archives. Keilen, a chemical engineer and "avid amateur photographer," moved from Pittsburgh to Charleston in the mid-1940s to work in the paper and rubber industries. His colorful collection includes six hundred or so photographs.

Magnolia Gardens, Charleston, March 1976.

Middleton Place, Charleston, March 1974.

Eleanor and Jack Keilen, Charleston, ca. 1945.

Ashley Stables, Charleston, ca. 1955.

Eleanor and Jack Keilen, Summerville Gardens, ca. 1945.