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121 Title:   Hankinson family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hankinson family  
  Dates:   1824-1903  
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The collection consists of papers of the family of Stephen Hankinson and Mary C. Speights from 1824-1903. Papers include a marriage bond between Hankinson and Speights, the will of Hankinson, papers concerning the ownership of people who were enslaved, and correspondence to Lee Starke Schieffelin and Corneille S. Schieffelin. The collection also includes a copy of The language of flowers, "property of Marie Essie Hankinson," an autograph book presented to Marie Essie Hankinson, and two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings with poems and concerning current events.
 
  Identifier:   ms196  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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122 Title:   Johnnie Inez Peterson collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Peterson, Johnnie Inez  
  Dates:   1933-1942  
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The collection consists of autographs, letters, and manuscripts collected by Peterson. Correspondents include Clara Ophelia Bland, Ernest Camp, Irwin S. Cobb, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Daniel Whitehead Hicky, Jennie Wright Howell, Judd Mortimer Lewis, Robert Quillen, and Samuel Selden.
 
  Identifier:   ms198  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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123 Title:   Athens Historical Society papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Athens Historical Society  
  Dates:   1960-2023  
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The collection consists of letters, speeches, newspaper articles, maps, photos, and indenture, and a cemetery survey that chronicle Athens history. University history is recorded in newspaper articles and some letters and Georgia history in speeches, newspaper articles, and brochures. Athens Historical Society (AHS) history is recorded in minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and speeches. AHS internal papers include directories, membership rolls, Constitution and by-laws, rosters, news releases, and a paper entitled The First Twenty Years: A Brief History of the Athens Historical Society. The collection also has the papers, scripts, and newspaper clippings concerning the AHS produced video The Presence of the Past: Historic Houses of Athens, Georgia. See also the typescripts of the full soundtrack of the video Reminiscences of Old Athens. Later additions to the collection include financial papers, Athens Historical Society Papers Volume II, and material regarding the "Vanishing Athens" project, Crampton's Gap project, Clarke County Cemeteries project, and Ellis Merton Coulter birthday commemoration.
 
  Identifier:   ms2306  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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124 Title:   Stegeman-Willingham collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Stegeman, John F.  
  Dates:   1900-1983  
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The collection consists of photographs and correspondence related to John Stegeman and Robert "Skeet" Willingham's book Touchdown: a pictorial history of the Georgia Bulldogs.
 
  Identifier:   ms2493  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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125 Title:   D. Dickson letter to D. C. Barrow and broadside (photocopy)  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Dickson, David, 1809-1885  
  Dates:   1854, 1855  
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The collection consists of one letter regarding payment for five bushels of cottonseed. Also included in the collection is a photocopy of a broadside advertising, "Boyd's Extra Prolific Cotton, introduced by D. Dickson." The original broadside, Highly improved cotton! Boyd's extra prolific!, (BRO 1854 H5) has been added to the broadside collection.
 
  Identifier:   ms2622  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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126 Title:   William Wyatt Bibb letter to Senator Charles Tait  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Bibb, William Wyatt, 1781-1820  
  Dates:   1816 June 25  
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The collection consists of one letter (and transcript of the letter) regarding the public outrage stemming from his congressional proposal to fix the salaries of senators and congressmen, and Bibb's ideas concerning the successor to Col. Benjamin Hawkins, who served as Indian Agent, mentioning Genl. McIntosh as a possibility.
 
  Identifier:   ms2705  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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127 Title:   Wayne Felker - Jan Burden papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Isaacs, Carl, 1953-  
  Dates:   1992-2002  
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The collection consists of correspondence between Jan Burden and various persons, 2000-2002, chiefly involving Georgia death row cases of Wayne Felker, Tracy Housel and Terry Mincey. News stories, mostly from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the cases are also included. In addition, a craft replica of a Georgia death row cell, created by Carl Isaacs and Wayne Felker (circa 1990s) is included.
 
  Identifier:   ms3186  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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128 Title:   Charles D. Davis letter to Alanson Davis  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Davis, Charles D., 1796-1879  
  Dates:   1837 January 15  
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The collection consists of one letter
 
  Identifier:   ms3224  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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129 Title:   Alexander Hamilton Stephens letter to R.C. Daniel  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883  
  Dates:   1860 December 14  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated Crawfordville, Georgia, December 14, 1860, to "R.C. Daniel," signed "Alexander H. Stephens," regarding the falling prices of slaves and the adverse effect secession will have on this price.
 
  Identifier:   ms3282  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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130 Title:   Harry Crews papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Crews, Harry, 1935-2012  
  Dates:   1953-2006  
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The collection consists of the literary papers of American writer Harry Crews. These papers document his writing career up through the publication of his twentieth book, An American Family: The Child With the Curious Marking (2006). Typed and holograph manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, conference material, awards, literary and film contracts, financial statements, and photographs make up the bulk of materials, which generally date from the mid-1960s onward. Correspondence includes Crews' mentor Andrew Lytle (who first published Crews in The Sewanee Review), letters from college friends/apprentice writers, and rejection slips and correspondences from prospective literary agents and publishers. Letters from the period when Crews published his first two novels -- The Gospel Singer, Naked in Garden Hills - include correspondence with his first literary agent, Bert Cochran, of American Authors, Inc., with John Hawkins of Paul Reynolds, Inc., who succeeded Cochran, and with Crews' editor at William Morrow, Jim Landis. Correspondence appears from other American writers - John Ciardi, Seymour Epstein, Maxine Kumin, William Meredith, Henry Van Dyke and others -- with whom Crews became acquainted through the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the University of Florida Writers Conference, the latter which he co-directed between 1970-1974 with fellow UF writer and professor Smith Kirkpatrick. Other writers represented include Malcolm Braly, Robert Olen Butler, Erskine Caldwell, Daniel Mark Epstein, Barry Hannah, Jim Harrison, Joseph Heller, James Leo Herlihy, William Hjortsberg, Maxine Kumin, Norman Mailer, Tom McGuane, Tim McLaurin, Donn Pearce, James Tiptree, Dan Wakefield, Charles Willeford and Miller Williams. In the 1970s there is also correspondence between Crews and his friend and fellow Florida writer/screenwriter Donn Pearce describing the screenwriting business, and an increasing flow of letters from anxious would-be producers seeking options on his novels. This period also is marked by the appearance of correspondence with editors at Playboy and Esquire, with whom Crews contracted to write magazine articles and (at Esquire) a monthly column, and with subsequent publishers and editors at Atheneum, Harper & Row, and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States and at Martin Secker & Warburg in England. In the 1990s correspondence files begin to include writers like Jay Atkinson, former student of Crews', and Mississippi novelist Larry Brown, who first approached Crews as a fan in 1990 and with whom he would remain friends until Brown's death in 2004.
 
  Identifier:   ms3340  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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131 Title:   William B. Conway family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Conway, William Buchanan, 1845-1920  
  Dates:   1864-2008  
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The collection consists of biographical information, financial papers, scrapbook/school book, medical notebooks, printed material, and photographs. Conway's typed autobiography describes his life as a child on the plantation, his Civil War experiences, and his medical career. His medical notebooks list patients and their treatments. He also wrote a notebook about early medicine and remedies. The school notebook of Mamie Conway (Dr. Conway's daughter) was begun while she was a student at the Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) and later turned into a scrapbook of clippings and mementos. Photographs include the wedding of Mamie Conway and William C. Mizelle/Mizell in 1904. Additionally, there are postcards to Mary Ann and Ola Kemp and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Dent; a small number of items from Conway Mizelle's travels in Cuba; and material related to Patrick Mizelle at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (Conyers, Ga.).
 
  Identifier:   ms3749  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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132 Title:   Millard and Linda Fuller papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Fuller, Linda  
  Dates:   1935-2013  
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The collection consists of subject files, correspondence, press, writings, photographs, and artifacts related to the personal and professional lives of Millard and Linda Fuller. Most of the materials pertain to the Fullers' work with Habitat for Humanity International, while a small portion of the collection relates to the Fuller Center for Housing and the Fullers' personal activities.
 
  Identifier:   ms3770  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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133 Title:   Habitat for Humanity International Records, Series 1.1: Papers - Correspondence  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Habitat for Humanity International, Inc  
  Dates:   1973-2007  
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The correspondence documents communication among Habitat for Humanity administrators, as well as their exchanges with donors, volunteers, and other supporters, some of whom are celebrities or public officials. The series consists of general correspondence, which is filed alphabetically, and special correspondence, which is filed according to name or subject. Millard Fuller, founder and former president of Habitat for Humanity, is one of the primary correspondence in this series up until 2006 when Jonathan Reckford took his place. The correspondence covers a wide range of topics, including projects, events, fundraising, and organizational planning.
 
  Identifier:   ms3786_1  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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134 Title:   Georgia Music Hall of Fame Collection, Series 4: Artists' Business Records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia Music Hall of Fame  
  Dates:   1930s-2000s  
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The Artists' Business Records series of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame Collection encompasses the correspondence, contracts, office files, and related papers associated with music industry figures in Georgia. A significant portion of the collection pertains the work of Jarvis Felton, producer for Elvis Presley from 1966-1977. Most of Felton's records document recording sessions and tours throughout the 1970s. Another large portion of the collection relates to comedian and singer Elsie Griner, Jr. of Nashville, Georgia, better known as "Miss Peaches."
 
  Identifier:   ms3837_4  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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135 Title:   William C. Towle letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Towle, William C., active 1830  
  Dates:   1865  
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Two letters from Union surgeon William C. Towle written to his wife. First letter dates February 26, 1865 and details Towle's time in Savannah with the army and the newly free enslaved people he has hired since arriving. "I am living well, I pay a colored woman three dollars a month to cook for me, I have a man to take care of my horses and another to wait upon me..." Second letter dates May 29, 1865 and details his time in Augusta, seeing Jeff Davis pass through the town, and his knowledge of newly emancipated enslaved people who are told to "not consider the word Freedom as meaning Freedom from labor." Towle ends his second letter by promising to send "a negro girl" to his wife.
 
  Identifier:   ms4092  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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136 Title:   Edward J. Dowd military memorabilia  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Dowd, Edward J.  
  Dates:   1942-1945  
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This collection contains artifacts used by Edward Dowd during his time serving as a flight radio operator including notebooks, checklists, and identification cards, as well as one returned letter to a soldier in Italy, souvenir arrowheads, shaving kit, and lighter.
 
  Identifier:   ms4226  
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137 Title:   James Edward Drake papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Mitchell, David Yoakley  
  Dates:   1920-1940  
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This collection contains correspondence and paperwork ragarding his time serving in the U.S. Navy, and his work with the U.S. Border Patrol. Also included is correspondence from his first wife Gladys and friends. Items include documents related to Border Patrol investigations, and immigration policies and procedures printed during the 1930s when the Border Patrol was undegoing s significant expansion.
 
  Identifier:   ms4273  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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138 Title:   Carola C. Reuben Mexican bands collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Reuben, Carola C.  
  Dates:   1993-2005, undated  
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This collection contains documents compiled by Carola C. Reuben in her work as a music agent including photographs, promotional clothing, posters, and recordings of radio and T.V. commercials for Mexican band events in Georgia, surrounding states, and throughout the eastern U.S. during the 1990s through mid 2010. In addition, the collection includes commercial transcripts, marketing letters, business correspondence, contracts, lists of bands, and behind-the scenes photographs at events.
 
  Identifier:   ms4304  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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139 Title:   Connally family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Connally, Evelyn A.  
  Dates:   1930-2015  
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This collection contains Lindsay Allen Connally's address book; Evelyn (Lyn) Connally's autograph book which includes the autographs of Joe DiMaggio, Bing Crosby, Robert Frost, Dwight Eisenhower, and others; correspondence; newspaper clippings, photographs from the 51st reunion of the University of Georgia's class of 1927; A. A. Sells' and W. L. Connally's United Daughters of the Confederacy Southern Cross of Honor medals; printed material; and information on the Connally and MacKenzie families.
 
  Identifier:   ms4313  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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140 Title:   Oliver Hazelrigg collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hazelrigg, Oliver  
  Dates:   1862-1918  
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The collection consists of one letter dated Lexington, Georgia, August 16, 1867, to Dr. P. H. Mell, signed "Marie Allen," regarding help in securing a teaching position; and three covering letters addressed to Mildred R. Mells, dated September 2, September 8, and September 22, 1918, signed Oliver Hazelrigg, regarding bonds and Georgia script for the library and museum.
 
  Identifier:   ms517  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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