Stanford Brown collection, 1863-1961

Summary

Creator:

Brown, Stanford

Date:

1863-1961

Extent:

16 folder(s)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Item, box, folder], Stanford Brown Collection, ms4434, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes a booklet for The Grand Theatre Program from 1925-1926, a photograph of an election crowd in Atlanta, Georgia in 1880, a photograph of Eugene O'Neill by Carl Van Vechten, 1920's photographs, Farmer's Banking Co. records, Marilyn Campbell's photographs of African American families in Georgia during the 1940's, and a photograph from Fort Valley State College Campus. Also included are broadsides for a program on Palestine and Egypt from 1879, a white supremacy flyer, a Civil War Island Minstrels concert, a roster of officers from the Thirty-third U.S. Infantry, an advertisement for a concert by the Brass Band of the 33rd Mass in Atlanta, Georgia, Civil War Union General Orders, a supplement of the Marietta Journal, a wanted poster for African American men Cornelius and Leon Cooper from 1933, and an ink drawing of the Battery Seymour on Ossabaw Island.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Minstrel shows
Theater programs
Election Day
White supremacy movements -- Georgia.
Sherman's March to the Sea.
African American families
Photograph albums
Wanted posters.
Orders (military records)
Rosters.

Names:

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

Places:

Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

Preferred citation:

[Item, box, folder], Stanford Brown Collection, ms4434, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.