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161 Title:   Robert Brown Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Brown, Robert Lofton, 1950-2011  
  Dates:   1960-2012  
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Robert Lofton Brown served in the Georgia State Senate (26th District) from 1991 to 2011 and was a member of the Bibb County Schools Board of Education between 1984 and 1991. Brown was also actively involved in education policy reform in the 1970s and 1980s through his work with the American Friends Service Committee and the Southeastern Public Education Program. Brown's papers document his political career, his civic and social activities, and his advocacy for education reform and civil rights in Macon and beyond.
 
  Identifier:   RBRL/314/RB  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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162 Title:   Alexander S. Clay Papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Clay, Alexander Stephens, 1853-1910.  
  Dates:   1900-1951  
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The Alexander S. Clay Papers is one of the earliest collections of Congressional papers held by the Russell Library and documents the beginnings of modern, federal policy-making in the twentieth century. The collection consists of correspondence between Senator Clay and his constituents, government officials and public servants, members of his family, and others between 1900 and 1914. Most of the letters are incoming correspondence. Topics discussed in the correspondence include the appointment of postmasters and other civil servants, nominations for students seeking admission to the United States Military Academy (West Point) and Naval Academy (Annapolis), tariffs and international trade legislation, the opening of the Panama Canal, U.S. Supreme Court cases and justice appointments, women's suffrage, Prohibition, Georgia gubernatorial elections, the 1908 presidential election, expansion of rural postal delivery service, relations between the United States and the Philippines, and the 1910 federal census. Also included in the collection are letters received after Clay's death, a photograph, postage stamps, and U.S. Army records from the 31st Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry (which Clay's son, Frank Butner Clay, served in as a captain) that were collected by the Clay family.
 
  Identifier:   RBRL/435  
  Repository:   Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies  
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163 Title:   De Renne Historic Georgia Manuscripts collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   De Renne, Wymberley Jones, 1853-1916  
  Dates:   1746-1918  
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The collection consists of miscellaneous correspondences, notes, and documents collected by the De Renne family pertaining almost wholly to historical figures important in the development of Georgia as a colony and state.
 
  Identifier:   ms1136  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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164 Title:   Wymberley Wormsloe De Renne family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   De Renne, Wymberley Wormsloe, 1891-1966  
  Dates:   1880-1970  
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The collection consists of the papers of Wymberley Wormsloe De Renne and the members of his family, especially Mrs. De Renne and their son Kentwyn. Materials that cover all family members include over seventy years of family correspondence and general materials such as clippings, accounts, invitations, and notebooks. Mrs. De Renne's materials are mainly administraive in nature and reflect her interests and can be found among the series for the Association of Georgia Artists and the Garden Club of Georgia. Kentwyn De Renne's materials include correspondence from the 1940s-1950s and miscellaneous materials. A large amount of material can be found in the financial materials section which has not described beyond year spans. Additionally there is a series for Inigo De Renne, and a small amount of images and miscellaneous relating to the family's activities.
 
  Identifier:   ms1788  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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165 Title:   Richard LeConte Anderson genealogical papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Anderson, Richard LeConte, 1902-  
  Dates:   circa 1930-1981  
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The collection consists of notes, clippings, photographs, correspondence and other information pertaining to the LeConte and allied families (including the Anderson, Hollifield and Perkins families) that formed the basis of Richard LeConte Anderson's three volume work on his family's genealogy. The book was published shortly after his death in 1981.
 
  Identifier:   ms1986  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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166 Title:   Friends of Lucy Cobb manuscript collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1892-1919  
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The collection consists of materials collected by "friends" from former students at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia. Included is a diary of Edna Pope, 2 letters, a card, and a photo of Pope; editions of "Nods and Becks"; a diploma to Queen Elizabeth Holden; issues of "The Lightning Bug"; and a bound notebook with events and writings. The collection also includes letters from Mildred Rutherford along with letters and writings from other Lucy Cobb Institute students.
 
  Identifier:   ms2733  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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167 Title:   Joan Titus collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Titus, Joan  
  Dates:   1890-2016  
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This collection includes clippings, correspondence, genealogical files, articles, notes, interviews, transcripts, photographs, and writings, gathered by Joan Titus, relating to Lillian Smith's life and legacy. The correspondence relates to Laural Falls Camp, South Today, Lillian Smith's publications and events, and letters received by Joan Titus regarding Smith. There are several folders of audience reaction cards from screenings of Miss Smith of Georgia from 1964 and 1966. Also included in this collection are interviews conducted by Joan Titus in March 1962 with Atlanta civic and political leaders, including Ivan Allan, William Hartsfield, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorimer Douglas Milton, and Reverend Williams Holmes Borders, regarding African American business leaders. Also in March 1962, Titus interviewed Dr. Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist, about the effect of school desegregation on children. Excerpts of the Coles interview were used in Time-Life's radio program "The Children Should be Heard".
 
  Identifier:   ms3757  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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168 Title:   George Horace Lorimer family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937  
  Dates:   1858-1952  
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The collection consists of biographical and genealogical material, family correspondence of the Lorimer and Ennis families, business correspondence, business and estate papers, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, blueprints, and photographs. In 2010 a small addendum of 2 boxes was added to the collection consisting of mainly George Burford Lorimer correspondence and subject files.
 
  Identifier:   ms2944  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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169 Title:   Gus York papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1906-1953  
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The collection consists of biographical information, correspondence, school papers and writings, financial items, printed material, diplomas and photographs. The correspondence includes letters from York's siblings and friends. Much of the correspondence is written on humorous postcards of that time period. A 1913 letter from W. A. Cunningham (head coach at the University of Georgia) contains diagrams of football plays. The school papers include a University of Georgia football banquet program (1910) with signatures by coaches and players, and two compositions describing York's trip from Fort McPherson (Ga.) to Cuba in 1906. There are photographs of houses where Gus York lived, a wagon train in Cuba, county extension work, and a panorama view of the University of Georgia class of 1912-1913.
 
  Identifier:   ms3034  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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170 Title:   Lipscomb family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lipscomb, Mary Ann Rutherford, 1848-1918  
  Dates:   1866-1911  
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The collection consists of miscellaneous materials chiefly concerning Andrew A. Lipscomb, Chancellor of the University of Georgia, and his son, Francis Adgate Lipscomb, class of 1866 and later Professor of Belles Lettres. There are eight typescripts of poems by A. A. Lipscomb on various topics. Class notes and literary society speeches of F. A. Lipscomb during his terms at the University are present as well as his complete lecture book for British literature (1872-1873). In addition there is a small group of correspondence between father and son. There is also a small amount of correspondence between Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb and David C. Barrow concerning the establishment of the Crawford W. Long infirmary on the University campus. Also present is a genealogy of the "Descendants of John Hall and Mary Parker of Maryland," compiled by H. M. Chapman of Washington, D. C., in 1898.
 
  Identifier:   ms1117  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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171 Title:   University of Georgia Board of Trustees correspondence and reports  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   University of Georgia. Board of Trustees  
  Dates:   1866-1932  
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The collection consists of materials of the University of Georgia's Board of Trustees, including meeting minutes, drafts of resolutions, annual reports, committee reports, auxiliary reports (such as catalogues, fiduciary documents, recommendations on degrees, and petitions, including a series of petitions pertaining to the issue of admission of women to the University), and correspondence. The Board of Trustee minute books include descriptions of enslavement events and treatment of enslaved people on campus.
 
  Identifier:   UA02-042  
  Repository:   University of Georgia Archives  
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172 Title:   Howell Cobb family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Cobb family  
  Dates:   1793-1932  
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The collection consists of papers of Howell Cobb and the Cobb family from 1793 to 1932. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, mostly addressed to Howell Cobb, dating from 1839 to 1868. There is a large amount of correspondence between Howell Cobb, his wife Mary Ann Lamar, and her brother John B. Lamar. The letters discuss politics in both Georgia and the United States, the Confederate States of America including its formation and administration, and information on Cobb's business interests, especially his plantations. After Cobb's death in 1868, the remainder of the correspondence is between other family members including John A. Cobb, Howell Cobb, Jr., Alexander Erwin, and Mary Erwin discussing family and social news, business interests, and legal cases. While the correspondence primarily documents the Cobb, Lamar, Erwin, and Barrow faimilies, there is also a large amount of correspondence from the Jackson, Hull, Rootes, Lumpkin, King, Pope, Rutherford, Prince, and Nisbet families. The earliest material includes indentures and land grants (1793-1829) relating to Zachariah Lamar's business interests. The clippings do not focus on Howell Cobb, with the very rare exception. These seem to have been donated by family but are very general in nature. The journals and diaries are from family members and friends.
 
  Identifier:   ms1376  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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173 Title:   Transcripts of the Earl of Egmont papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America  
  Dates:   1732-1743  
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Note The collection consists of transcripts created by E. Merton Coulter from contemporary, hand-written copies of letters and documents from 1732-1745 relating to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America. The correspondence includes letters between officials and settlers in the Colony and the Trustees. Major correspondees include James Oglethorpe, Thomas Causton, Samuel Eveleigh, Thomas Christie, Elisha Dobree, John Wesley and Trustees Benjamin Martryn and Harman Verelst. The letters provide comprehensive information regarding the settlement of Georgia, especially in Savannah and Frederica; Indian trading and relations; activities of the French and Spanish; the question of slavery; Salzburger and Moravian settlers; and religious matters.
 
  Identifier:   ms1786  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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174 Title:   William J. Northen family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Northen, William J. (William Jonathan), 1835-1913  
  Dates:   1790-1959  
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The collection consists of genealogy, land documents, correspondence, financial papers, writings, photographs, artifacts, and printed material. The correspondence includes letters to William J. Northen regarding the establishment of the town of Fitzgerald, Georgia; letters regarding an apparent scandal involving the Farmers' Alliance and Leonidas Livingston; William J. Northen's letters home as he traveled around Georgia in 1907 promoting racial harmony; and two Civil War letters from brothers William and John Henry Neel of the 15th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Company K. The writings contain a journal by William J. Northen in which he writes of his trip to Tallulah Falls, speeches at Mercer University, his 21st birthday, death of his brother, and a letter to his sister regarding conditions at the end of the Civil War. Farm accounts are also included in the journal. Also of interest are slave documents and bills of sale; receipts from Mercer University and the Georgia Baptist Convention when Peter Northen was treasurer; Ruth Northen's photo album containing University of Georgia photographs from 1911-1912 and other travel photographs; and an 1801 indenture between the Catawba Indians and Thomas Neel for land in York County, South Carolina. The following items were separated from the collection: walking cane without the handle and one square back wooden chair with cane seat is housed in Organic storage.
 
  Identifier:   ms3327  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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175 Title:   Cleveland and Dorothy Lassiter papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lassiter, Cleveland Frissell, 1921-2007  
  Dates:   1938-2016  
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This collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, and printed material covering the Lassiter and Harris families, through wartime, college education, and church life. It features written sermon notes, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority materials, church histories, and a complete set of letters written from Cleveland Lassiter to Dorothy during his time in Burma during WWII. The collection also has a wealth of printed material regarding choral performances that were recorded throughout Georgia and New York.
 
  Identifier:   ms4114  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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176 Title:   Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. literary and historical manuscripts  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893  
  Dates:   1867-1889  
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The collection consists of the bound manuscript volumes written by Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., noted Georgia historian and literary figure. Several of the volumes are extra illustrated by Jones. These writings form much of the corpus of Jones' published works and are, for the most part, the author's own final manuscript copies, although there are some corrections and annotations.
 
  Identifier:   ms1066  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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177 Title:   Lollie Belle Wylie family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Wylie, Lollie Belle  
  Dates:   1723-1986  
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The collection consists of genealogy, correspondence, writings, financial papers, printed material, photographs, scrapbooks and sheet music. Most of the correspondence is to Lollie Belle Wylie from other writers, including some famous authors such as Samuel L. Clemens, Richard Harding Davis, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Joel Chandler Harris, Joaquin Miller, and Jack London. There are numerous letters from Orth H. Stein and Henry Wellington Wack. Also included are many letters from Lollie Belle to her daughter Hart. There are several letters of Howell Cobb and T.R.R. Cobb to or about Samuel P. Thurmond. The writings are mainly by Lollie Belle Wylie and include a detailed memoir of her life in the city of Atlanta. The financial papers are primarily promissory notes and receipts of the Ellis family. Some of the sheet music in the collection was composed by Lollie Belle Wylie.
 
  Identifier:   ms3408  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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178 Title:   Craig Barrow family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Barrow, Craig, 1876-1945  
  Dates:   1766-2010  
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The collection consists of correspondence, genealogical information, writings, financial papers, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, deeds, and transcripts and copies of historical documents. Much of the Craig Barrow correspondence deals with his involvement with the Savannah Boxing Commission, Savannah Golf Club, Central of Georgia Railway, and the University of Georgia Alumni Society. The family correspondence contains letters regarding the Barrow property called the Home Place in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. There is much emphasis on Savannah, the Wormsloe estate, and Georgia history in both printed material and photographs. A large section of the financial papers concerns the real estate owned by the Barrows in Savannah and details the sale, rental, and management of the properties.
 
  Identifier:   ms3090  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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179 Title:   Lillian Eugenia Smith papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966  
  Dates:   circa 1910-2001  
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The collection consists of papers of Lillian Smith from circa 1920-1980. The papers contain personal correspondence, manuscripts of her works, writings by and about her, files on various organizations she was interested in or involved with (many dealing with human rights), audiotapes containing interviews with and readings by Smith, speeches, financial records, photographs, and printed material. Part of the collection contains records relating to her involvement with the Laurel Falls Camp for Girls including correspondence, applications for admission, printed material, and scrapbooks. The collection also has correspondence, photographs, and papers of her partner, Paula Snelling; her sister, Esther Smith; and the Barnett family. The audiovisual materials related to this collection are housed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives.
 
  Identifier:   ms1283a  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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180 Title:   Athens Town and Gown Players records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Town and Gown Players (Athens, Ga.)  
  Dates:   1953-2018  
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The collection consists of documents related to the Town and Gown Players of Athens, Georgia. There are production documents, including scripts, programs, tickets, pictures and design documents; publicity documents, including season lists and season press releases, season press clippings, promotions, brochures and flyers; financial documents, including expense/income reports, treasurer's reports, show income breakdown statements, receipts, tax documents and ledgers; facility documents, including leases, insurance policies, rental agreements, renovation documents, contracts with technicians and facilities specs for designers; and membership documents including member lists, newsletters, thank you letters and general member communications.
 
  Identifier:   ms3256  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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