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781 Title:   David Gardiner Phillips family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Phillips, David Gardiner, 1817-1899  
  Dates:   1849-1883  
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The collection consists of correspondence and photographs. Correspondence mostly concerns family matters, such as the birth and death of Mary Phillips' twins, and the Phillips' move into a new home. The speech in the collection concerns the topic of secession. Reverend Phillips' ledger consists of accounts of expenditures, stipends received from the congregation, tax returns, and accounts and contracts for farm workers.
  
  Identifier:   ms3753  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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782 Title:   Camden Evans letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Evans, Camden, 1838?-1864  
  Dates:   1862-1864  
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The collection consists of letters Camden Evans wrote to his wife and her father in Columbus (Ga.) from 1862-1864. He wrote from numerous camps in towns including Tupelo (Miss.), Murfreesboro (Tenn.), and Ringgold and Dalton (Ga.). In his letters he complained about how badly privates were treated and the lack of food and clothing. He asked Mr. Laney to bring him a boy to wash his clothes and forage for food, and he constantly tried to arrange for a furlough or a substitute. He gave his opinions of Generals Grant, Johnson, Bragg and Hardee. By May 22, 1864 he was near Atlanta and described having no clean clothes for three weeks, and being on picket duty for 24 hours without relief. By July 12, 1864 he had learned of his son Bobbie's death. His last letter is dated July 17, 1864. There is one letter from Emma to her husband and several letters from her after the war to her mother. In these she mentioned her second husband Steve Smith, her daughter Daisy, and a move to Birmingham (Ala.)
  
  Identifier:   ms3756  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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783 Title:   Sturges family letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Sturges family  
  Dates:   1844-1862  
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The collection consists of letters written by William Sturges to his brother John beginning in 1844 while John was in college in Princeton, New Jersey. He later went to Yale to study law. The letters describe the social events and family life in Waynesboro, with some mention of politics. In 1852 John was county surveyor for Burke County and there are several letters to him requesting his services. There are also two letters from John's niece Abby, who married Henry Hart Jones. John's regiment was in Portsmouth (Va.) in August 1861 and Roanoke Island (NC) in December 1861. William wrote to him giving local news of the war. There are no letters from John Sturges. Typescripts of all letters are included.
  
  Identifier:   ms3764  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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784 Title:   Fuller Center for Housing records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Fuller Center for Housing  
  Dates:   2005-2008  
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The collection consists of correspondence dating from the Fuller Center for Housing's formation in 2005 until 2008, when Millard Fuller served as president of the organization. Much of the early correspondence concerns the establishment of the Fuller Center in the aftermath of Millard and Linda Fuller's departure from Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. Other topics include building projects, advocacy, affiliate organizations, donations, and administration.
  
  Identifier:   ms3771  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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785 Title:   Hooper Ware family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hooper family  
  Dates:   1848-1916  
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This collection includes correspondence between Edward A. O. Ware and his family while he was in medical school; letters between Sarah Jane Hooper Ware, her mother Jane Byrd Word Hooper, and other family members during the war and concerning the Ware's trek to Texas at the close of the Civil War; Sarah Jane Hooper's diploma from Cassville Female College; three photographs of Charles W. Hooper and his discharge from Georgia 8th Regiment; and two slave auction receipts issued to Edward A. O. Ware.
  
  Identifier:   ms3792  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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786 Title:   Robert Preston Brooks papers of the Georgia Historical Association  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Brooks, Robert Preston, 1881-1961  
  Dates:   1917-1922  
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The collection consists of papers of Robert Preston Brooks, mainly in association with the Georgia Historical Association and Georgia Historical Society. Correspondence chiefly concerns the merger of the Georgia Historical Association with the Georgia Historical Society, and Georgia Historical Quarterly. Correspondents include A. R. Lawton, Andrew J. Cobb, Otis Ashmore, Charles Edgeworth Jones, Alfred Newell, Percy Flippin, Lucien Lamar Knight, and E. Merton Coulter. The collection also contains the Georgia Historical Association and Georgia Historical Society merger agreement, financial statements and ledgers of Robert Preston Brooks and the Georgia Historical Association, meeting minutes, and lists of members of the Georgia Historical Society.
  
  Identifier:   ms38  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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787 Title:   Molly P. Michael collection of Booth Tarkington material  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Michael, Molly P.  
  Dates:   1896-1990  
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The collection consists primarily of magazines from the early twentieth century featuring Tarkington's short stories, as well as musical scores and theatre programs from performances of his plays. The collection also includes a small portion of correspondence, clippings, movie posters, and printed ephemera relating to film adaptations of his work.
  
  Identifier:   ms3820  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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788 Title:   Habersham Orchard and Improvement Company records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Habersham Orchard Company (Cornelia, Ga.)  
  Dates:   1914-1925  
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The Habersham Orchard and Improvement Company records consist of the financial documents of investor J. G. Bradbury and related material about pricing and profit estimates. Materials include first mortage gold bonds, a stock certificate, and financial correspondence between Bradbury and company president Norman T. Pool.
  
  Identifier:   ms3824  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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789 Title:   Alexander H. Stephens family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883  
  Dates:   1797-1977  
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The collection consists of biographical information, correspondence, writings, financial papers, printed material, photographs, and artifacts. Family letters are mainly among Alexander H. Stephens, his father Andrew Baskins Stephens, his brother Aaron Grier Stephens, his nephew John Alexander Stephens, and his half-brother Linton Stephens. The letters discuss family matters and politics. One group of letters concerns the imprisonment and parole of honor of Alexander H. Stephens at Fort Warren (Boston, Mass.) in 1865. Correspondence between Alexander H. Stephens and various political figures includes Howell Cobb, Abraham Lincoln, Ben Hill, and Robert Toombs. Stephens and Hill write about the possibility of a duel between them because of an argument over politics. There is one letter from Clement Anselm Evans (1833-1911) to his wife, and three letters to him from John Brown Gordon, Joseph Wheeler and James Longstreet. Among the financial papers are deeds, and the wills of Alexander H. Stephens and his grandfather Alexander Stephens (d. 1813). An oversize folder contains a copy of an undated map of Confederate and Federal lines around Petersburg, Virginia. Artifacts include a walking cane of Alexander H. Stephens, locks of his hair, and a bloodletting tool.
  
  Identifier:   ms3828  
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790 Title:   W. E. B. Du Bois letter  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963  
  Dates:   circa 1948-1956  
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The collection consists of a typed letter by W. E. B. Du Bois responding to questions about his work as a teacher and writer. Specifically, he discusses the importance of support from black colleges and universities in gaining recogntion, his ability to support himself financially through his teaching and writing, and he identifies what he considers his most important scholarly work. The letter is signed by Du Bois.
  
  Identifier:   ms3835  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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791 Title:   James Lardner and W. R. Howell correspondence  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lardner, James, 1801-1881  
  Dates:   1862-1863  
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The collection consists primarily of correspondence and documents relating to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron under the command of Admiral James Lardner (1802-1881). Included are detailed orders for the USS Stars and Stripes, a roster of ships in the Squadron on November 30, 1862, and printed General Orders by the Secretary of the Navy drumming Commander George Henry Preble, nephew of the admiral, out of the service for allowing the CSS Florida to run into Mobile, Alabama.
  
  Identifier:   ms3847  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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792 Title:   Oconee Hill Cemetery records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Oconee Hill Cemetery. Board of Trustees  
  Dates:   1897-2015  
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These records document the administration, maintenance, and preservation of the Oconee Hill Cemetery from 1897 to 2014. There are no records created prior to 1897, since they were all destroyed by a fire. The collection consists of administrative files, correspondence, sexton reports, trustee minutes, plot and deed files, financial information, ledgers, and photographs.
  
  Identifier:   ms3853  
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793 Title:   Thomas-DuBose family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Thomas, Minnie, 1892-1982  
  Dates:   1844-1987  
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The collection consists of biographical information, correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, and a scrapbook. The correspondence is mainly of the Thomas and DuBose families, but there is also some material of related families Barnett, Toombs, White, Welch, Stovall, Morton and Van Epps. Although there are no original letters, there is some interesting information about Alexander Erwin Wilson and his wife Jane Smithey who were missionaries in South Africa 1835-1836. They were the grandparents of Jennie Stovall DuBose. There are numerous photographs of the families, and Navy photographs of Austin Hill Barnett, Jr. Printed material includes a booklet of the Athens High School reunion of the class of 1937 which included Janet DuBose. The scrapbook was kept by Minnie Thomas and holds colorful advertisements circa 1879.
  
  Identifier:   ms3856  
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794 Title:   Jack Leigh letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Leigh, Jack, 1948-2004  
  Dates:   1983-1986  
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The collection consists primarily of letters and postcards written to Jack Leigh's friend and a fellow photographer Doug Brown. The letters focus on the topics of family, photography exhibitions, publications, and photography at the Ogeechee River. Also included are photographs from their Ogeechee trip, slides of Jack Leigh at Lake Blackshear, near Albany, Georgia, and a proposal for the book The Ogeechee: A River and Its People
  
  Identifier:   ms3917  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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795 Title:   James B. Sterling letter to Edgar C. Sterling  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Sterling, James B., 1842-1864  
  Dates:   1862 June 15  
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The collection consists of one letter with a transcript from James Sterling to Edgar Sterling describing North Edisto Island, the price and variety of food and goods, and includes a piece of the secession flag from Fort Pulaski.
  
  Identifier:   ms3929  
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796 Title:   Herb Yellin papers related to Harry Crews  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Crews, Harry, 1935-2012  
  Dates:   1984-2002  
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The collection consists of correspondence between Herb Yellin (1935-2014), founder and publisher of Lord John Press, and author Harry Crews (1935-2012). Included are, 16 letters and one postcard from Crews to Yellin; seven copies of letters by Yellin to Crews; three photos of Crews; a set of galley proofs and a set of page proofs (incomplete) to Madonna at Ringside; eleven checks (cancelled); and a taxpayer ID number form.
  
  Identifier:   ms3935  
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797 Title:   Emma R. Heidelbach papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Heidelbach, Emma R. , 1872-1950  
  Dates:   1915-1919  
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Consists of correspondence and a collection of other written and printed ephemera belonging to Mrs. Emma R. Heidelbach during World War I. Notable items include a U.S. army song book from 1918, original typewritten poetry by U.S. soldiers, and four French handbills showing French opposition to the war and Germany.
  
  Identifier:   ms4109  
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798 Title:   Fanny Kemble letters and prints  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893  
  Dates:   19th Century  
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This collection consists of two letters written by Kemble, one transcription of a letter written by Laura Palmer Bell regarding Kemble, and two engraved images of Kemble.
  
  Identifier:   ms4169  
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799 Title:   Marcus Wellons papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Wellons, Marcus  
  Dates:   2009-2014  
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This collection contains Marcus Wellons' correspondence to and from his family members, Margaret Johnson and her daughter Mary Catherine Johnson, as well as others. Included are his writing, the newsletter Compassion, written by Death Row inmates, the journal he wrote during the week before his execution, and a memoir about Troy Davis, another Death Row inmate.
  
  Identifier:   ms4261  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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800 Title:   Ruth, Paine, and Reaves families papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Paine family  
  Dates:   1893-1995  
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This collection contains the papers of the Ruth, Paine, and Reaves families including correspodence, surveyes, maps, drawings, and records regarding Rufus K. Reaves' land and gold mine in Raburn County, Georgia and Joseph P. Ruth's mine and company, Ruth Locomotive Company, in Denver, Colorado.
  
  Identifier:   ms4275  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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