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Dennis Johnson farm journal
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Johnson, Dennis |
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1850-1859 |
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The collection consists of a journal kept by Dennis Johnson of Oothkaloga, Bartow County, Georgia regarding weather conditions,
planting and harvesting of various crops, use of various farm animals in work, and work assigned to farm laborers.
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ms2500 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Chesley Bostic Vincent Bible pages
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Vincent, Chesley Bostic, 1849-1915 |
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1849-1922 |
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The collection includes a marriage certificate for Chesley Bostic Vincent and Ida Sarah Stephens Vincent and two bible pages
announcing Vincent family births, marriages, and deaths.
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ms4049 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Howard E. Felton photograph album
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Felton, Howard Erwin, 1869- |
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1907-1915 |
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The album contains photographs taken by Dr. Howard Erwin Felton. Consists mostly of photographs of the Felton family and people
and places around Cartersville, Georgia. Also includes 17 commercially produced color photographs of scenes around Cartersville.
Notable photgraphs include "Election day in Cartersville, June 20, 1907 when Prohibition carried," "the first hospital ever
erected in Cartersville, October 1913," and images of the Bartow County Fair, 1913.
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ms4136 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Sam P. Jones papers
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Jones, Sam P. (Sam Porter), 1847-1906 |
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1863-1950 |
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The papers of Sam P. Jones includes correspondence mostly from 1863 to 1907; writings, sermons, lectures; and diaries, journals,
and notebooks. The correspondence contains mainly letters requesting Reverend Jones to speak and remarks of individuals who
had attended a sermon or lecture. The writings, sermons and lectures relate to his work in promoting prohibition. The diaries
and journals (1892-1923) were kept mainly by his wife, Laura McElwain Jones, and document her social and daily activities
in Cartersville, Georgia.
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ms2 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Godfrey Barnsley family papers
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Barnsley, Godfrey, 1805-1873 |
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1806-1903 |
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The collection consists of papers of Godfrey Barnsley and the Barnsley family from 1806-1903. The papers consist mainly of
correspondence, letter books, and financial records. The correspondence (bulk 1828-1873) and letter books (1837-1873, with
gaps) pertain to personal and business matters relating to Barnsley's occupation as a cotton factor and merchant. Correspondents
include Barnsley's business partners John Day, William D. Duncan, John R. Gardner, Edmund M. Sager, and James Sager and family
members including his wife Julia Scarborough Barnsley, his uncle George Barnsley of Liverpool, and his children. Many of the
family letters were written from Woodlands Plantation in Bartow County, Georgia to Barnsley while he attended to business
in Savannah (Ga.), Mobile (Ala.), and New Orleans (La.) and discuss family and plantation matters. Some of the correspondence
relates to his position with the Port of Savannah as vice consul and interim of the Netherlands and vice consul for the Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies. The collection also contains transcripts of much of the correspondence.
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ms1737 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Rebecca Latimer Felton papers
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Felton, William H. (William Harrell), 1823-1909 |
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1851-1930 |
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The collection consists of the papers of Rebecca Latimer Felton, from 1851 to 1930. The papers include correspondence, speeches,
articles, and scrapbooks; all reflecting her lengthy public career as author, newspaper columnist, lecturer, as she actively
pursued her interests in politics, religious issues, penal and temperance reform and women's political rights. The papers
reflect her involvement in the World's Columbian Exposition (1890-1894), the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta (1895), and
as a delegate to the Progressive Republican Convention in Chicago (1912). Correspondents include readers of her articles and
letters and those involved in Exposition matters. Other correspondents include General John B. Gordon, Alexander Hamilton
Stephens, James Longstreet, William H. Hidell, Bertha Honore Palmer, Lafayette McLaws, Florence Williams Olmstead, President
Rutherford B. Hayes, Georgia Governors A. H. Colquitt, Joseph Emerson Brown and William Yates Atkinson and family members,
husband William H. Felton, son Howard Erwin Felton, and Charles and Eleanor Swift Latimer.
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ms81 |
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Hargrett Library |
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