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Woodrow Wilson scrapbooks
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Creator: |
Davenport, Florence Downs |
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Dates: |
after 1924 |
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The collection consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Florence Downs Davenport that basically cover the career of Woodrow
Wilson from 1918-1924. Scrapbooks begin with a typescript regarding Wilson's marriage to Ellen Axson in 1883, and contain
potographs, newspaper clippings, and typescripts of speeches given by Wilson.
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ms1543 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Guinn family papers and photographs
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Guinn, Austin Edgar, 1888-1945 |
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Dates: |
1869-1959 |
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This collection contains photographs and documents regarding Austin E. Guinn's activities as a US Navy steward and photographer
from 1909-1922, and as an egg farmer in Butler, Georgia from 1923 until his death in 1945. Included are photographs of events
in the Mexican War, Navy ships in ports in the Caribbean and in World War I Atlantic convoys, Washington DC monuments seen
from the air, photographs of Woodrow Wilson, General Pershing and Marshall Foch, aerial photos of the Billy Mitchell ship
bombing tests, Glenn Curtiss' first seaplane, as well as various other airships in development by the Navy. There are also
many pictures depicting life on the Peach Valley Egg Farm, including legal documents and genealogical information about the
Guinn family and the egg farm.
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ms4029 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers
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Lamar, Clarinda Pendleton, 1856-1943 |
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Dates: |
1792-1936 |
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This collection consists of the papers of Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar from 1792-1936 and includes correspondence,
scrapbooks, certificates, engagement books, invitations, speeches, and telegrams pertaining to Joseph Lamar's service on the
Georgia and U.S. Supreme Courts; Clarinda Lamar's involvement with the Colonial Dames of America; and the Lamars' personal
and public life in Augusta, Georgia and Washington, D.C.
Correspondents of Justice Lamar, many of whom also continued to correspond with Mrs. Lamar after his death, included Augusta
friends W. H. Barrett, J. C. C. Black, E. H. Callaway, Ed. B. Hook and Andrew J. Cobb of Athens. Other notables included Woodrow
Wilson, William H. Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James A. Garfield, William Jennings Bryan, and Octave
Thanet (pseudonym of author Alice French). Mrs. Lamar also corresponded with Helen Taft, Mary Custis Lee, Edith Bolling Wilson,
Martha Berry, Daisy Low (Juliette Gordon), and Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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ms22 |
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Hargrett Library |
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