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Jordan-Burnett papers
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Creator: |
Burnett, Eugene Paul |
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Dates: |
1860-1950 |
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The collection consists of letters, cartes-de-visite (most unidentified), biographical information on Rachel Gunby Jordan
and Eugene P. Burnett, printed material, Confederate money, clippings, and locks of hair. The main portion of the collection
consists of letters written to Delia D. Jordan in Sparta, Georgia, from her fiance Eugene Paul Burnett during the Civil War.
His letters describe daily camp life, his duties as Inspector General, and details of battles as he moved through South Carolina,
Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are also letters from Delia's brothers, William Franklin Jordan, Robert Pierpont
Jordan, and George Gunby Jordan.
Also in the collection is a photograph of General Robert E. Lee and an Augusta newspaper, Daily Constitutionalist, from July
3, 1862. The newspaper contains descriptions of the current battles and lists of wounded men, including W.F. Jordan.
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ms2937 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Camp and Keeler families papers
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Keeler family |
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Dates: |
1817-1967 |
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The collection consists of correspondence (from George H. Keeler, Milton and Louise Keeler, et al), diaries, documents, ledgers,
journals, scrapbooks, sheet music, broadsides, newspapers, musical manuscripts, postage stamps, postcards, books on local
history, photographs and other related printed ephemera spanning dates from 1817 to the 1960s. The documents mostly relate
to the families of George King Camp and George H. Keeler; included are an appointment as Postmaster of Marietta (signed by
William Howard Taft, 1910), Cobb County land deeds, Confederate bonds, and receipts. Photographs include a record of Sarah
Atwood Camp's travels via steamship; an album of albumen photographs of Florida, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Martinique, Antiqua,
St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, and Cuba; and daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, and tintypes of family members.
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ms3374 |
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Hargrett Library |
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