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R.T. Trible diary and Bible
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Trible, Richard Thomas, 1822-1894 |
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1836-1865 |
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This collection includes a diary or planting journal of Richard Thomas Trible, and a Bible given to him with family information
in the back pages. The diary includes information on planting, activites of the enslaved population, visits to the Georgia
Factory, Col. Billups, Mr. Dearing, and Dr. Morton.
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ms4542 |
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Hargrett Library |
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J.J. Little journal
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Little, John Jacob, 1815-1886 |
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1860-1882 |
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Journal was kept by Reverend J.J. Little in Harris Georgia. Most entries pertain to his crops, the weather, and church congregation.
He also documents Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, as well as the secession of southern states from the union, the breakout
and events of the Civil War, and his son's army career.
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ms4076 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Benjamin Franklin Hubert collection
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Unknown |
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Dates: |
1915-1986 |
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This collection consists of the correspondence, personal papers, speeches, agricultural material, financial and business documents
of Benjamin Franklin Hubert during his 1926-1947 tenure as President of Georgia State College (later Savannah State College),
an agricultural college for African Americans in Savannah, Georgia. Some additional documentation is included for Hubert's
time as Director of Agriculture and Agriculture Extension at the South Carolina State College; no documentation is available
for his time at the Tuskegee Institute, however. Photos, clippings, and ephemera related to the Hubert and the Log Cabin Center
are included as well. The correspondence in the collection predominately composed of correspondence between Hubert and his
various donors, who provided advice and suggestions for the direction and programs at the Log Cabin Center. Notable donors/supporters
included are Eleanor Roosevelt, George Foster Peabody, and Caroline Hazard. There is also some detailed correspondence between
Hubert and his sharecroppers, the African-American community, and staff at the college. Benjamin Hubert's personal papers
consist of some certificates, Hubert's court cases, recommendations for Hubert, and essays/speeches (most of which concern
the history of future of the African-American citizen). The agricultural materials mostly relate to Hubert's work regarding
the Association for the Advancement of Negro Country Life and their farming goals for African-American citizens. The financial
documents encompass insurance policies; bills from personal expenses, running the college, the Log Cabin Center; and expenses
from Hubert's sharecroppers.
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ms2926 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Winters family papers
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Winter family. |
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Dates: |
1919-1925 |
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This collection includes letters to Mrs. Mary Winters, most of which regards the death of her daughter Verna Jewel Winters
Peace, and John Miles Monroe Winters' ledger for their peach farm in Bradley, Georgia.
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ms4338 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers
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Green, Mary Blount, 1896-1978 |
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Dates: |
1816-1984 |
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This collection contains teaching materials, artifacts, records, and correspondence regarding Mary Blount Green, her husband
John B. Green, and their son Ronald. It also contains correspondence and records of her parents, Charles and Alice Andrews,
and other relatives in the Bowen and Lamar families.
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ms4047 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm records
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Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm (Jefferson, Ga.) |
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Dates: |
1774-1969 |
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This collection contains land grants, legal papers, farm records, photographs, correspondence, and artifacts documenting the
history of the farm on which the Shields and Ethridge families ran from Colonial settlement through the 20th Century. Included
are plats of the farm as it grew, photographs of daily operations, business receipts reflecting the changing times, and a
variety of manuals and catalogs of farm implements as the farm became more mechanized. There are many identified photographs,
mainly from the 1920s, recording family trips, farm operations, and portraits.
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Identifier: |
ms4274 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Clarence L. Jordan papers
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Jordan, Clarence |
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Dates: |
1920-1984 |
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Correspondence, audiotape transcripts, and other papers, relating to Clarence Jordan, Koinonia Farm, a religious and interracial
community near Americus, Ga., which he founded in 1942, and his Cotton Patch Gospels; together with correspondence to his
wife, Florence (Kroeger) Jordan, concerning his death and legal matters. Includes correspondence to his mother while a student
at University of Georgia and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, original Koinonia commitment, and coroner's report on
Jordan's death. Topics include an alleged insurance claim scandal and racial violence.
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Identifier: |
ms2340 |
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Hargrett Library |
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