Search

This collection consists of a group of various colonial, state and municipal legal documents from the 1600s-1900s, copied by the Historical Records Survey of Georgia in 1941 as part of the Works Progress Administration. The documents focus on Georgia state and colonial laws as municipal government in various parts of the state. There is also a listing of some vital statistics which consist of a list of books, not the actual vital statistic.

The collection consists of photographs of Confederate monuments located throughout Georgia. There is also a copy of the book, Confederate Monuments in Georgia, located in Box 1 of the collection.

This collection contains notes and finished stories researched by Sparks while writer for and editor of Atlanta Weekly magazine; together with correspondence, unpublished short stories, and a novel entitled Wild Islands.

The collection consists of depositions of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in a lawsuit against Universal Pictures Company, Inc., and Realart Pictures, Inc., over profits from reissues of Abbott-Costello movies and movie shorts. Depositions take place in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, on April 30, 1952, May 2, 1952, and May 5, 1952. Abbott and Costello are represented by Jack Lewis Kraus, and Louis Nizer represents Universal Pictures Co., Inc.

The collection consists of the dissertations directed by Torrance.

The collection consists of papers of Sir Joseph D. Hooker from 1828-1909. His wife, Lady Hyacinth Hooker evidently removed letters from her husband's files and created a collection of letters, photographs, and autographs of their contemporaries. Addressed mainly to Hooker, the letters are from members of the Linnaen Society and the Royal Society of Arts, botanists, natural historians, statesmen and politicians, artists and literary figures, royalty, and European and American notables. The correspondence relates to Hooker's work at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, botany in general, and the Hooker's social activities.

This collection consists of genealogy and family research beginning with Crawford Taylor Burgess and his descendants. The papers are primarily genealogical research, correspondence, and photographs of the family gathered together by Blondine Burgess Abbott and Patsy Burgess Webb.

The collection consists of records of the Chicopee Manufacturing Company (Athens, Ga.) and its predecessor, the Athens Manufacturing Company, from 1824-1975. Includes correspondence, financial condition reports (1936-1953), legal papers (1824-1975), photographs, account ledger (1910-1914), and two minute books (1835-1935) which document the management and activities of a cotton manufacturing plant.

The Correspondence consists of correspondence of Olin Downes from approximately 1909-1955. Correspondence is professional in nature and contains both incoming letters to Downes and copies of his outgoing letters documenting Downes' career as a music critic and lecturer as well as his involvement with such organizations as the Berlioz Society, the Bohemian Club (N.Y.), the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia Artists Management, Metropolitan Opera Company, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, National Council for the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, the New York Times, Rachmaninoff Fund, and the World's Fair of 1939. Major correspondents include Richard Aldrich, Ernest Bloch, Alec Hammerslough, Charles Hubbard, Serge Koussevitsky, Stuart Montgomery, Kenneth Murray, Walter Naumburg, and Henry A. Wallace.