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The collection documents the growth and development of the City of Macon primarily during the administration of Mayor Charles
L. Bowden (1938-1947). Included are City of Macon financial statements (1928, 1937-1938); Macon Hospital Commission files
(1945-1952); correspondence and photographs documenting the commission of USS Macon (1945) and the Macon premiere of God is
my Co-pilot (1945); copies of Bowden's speeches and radio announcements; and general correspondence. Of note is the correspondence
with Carl Vinson, especially in relation to the commissioning of the USS Macon. Correspondence between Bowden, his wife, Urney
Fields Bowden, and their children, Charlotte and Patsy, illustrate family life in Macon in the 1930s and 1940s. The Bowden
and Fields families are documented through genealogical research files and correspondence (1883-1889) between Urney Bowden's
grandparents, W. G. Fields and Emma Massey (-1902). The papers include correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, financial
reports, speeches and announcements, publications and clippings, and memorabilia.
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