| 4081 |
Title: |
Investigation of James G. Woodward pamphlet
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Unknown |
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1900 June 8-6 |
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A pamphlet containing portions of testimony from fifteen citizens of Atlanta regarding the ill conduct of Mayor Woodward from
the investigation conducted by City Attorney J. A. Anderson on June 8-16, 1900.
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ms3684 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4082 |
Title: |
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan pamphlet
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Creator: |
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
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Dates: |
1925-1970 |
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The collection consists of a pamphlet that explains the beliefs of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan regarding native-born Americans'
supremacy to all others.
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Identifier: |
ms3685 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4083 |
Title: |
Women of the Ku Klux Klan collection
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Women of the Ku Klux Klan |
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Dates: |
1923-1931 |
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This collection consists of pamphlets and guides to ceremonies, including installation ceremony, pledge of loyalty and oath
of allegiance. An application for membership, election notification slip, Imperial Passport (membership card), red silk sash,
diploma, and membership charter are also included.
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Identifier: |
ms3686 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4084 |
Title: |
Drury Murray property appraisement
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Murray, Drury, 1787-1862 |
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Dates: |
1864 December 21 |
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This collection consists of the appraisement of the personal property in the estate of Drury Murray done by J. F. Miller,
James Lasseter, J. F. Market, and Joseph Thomas. Appraisement lists 19 enslaved persons, their perceived monetary value, and
the name of the enslaver to whom they are being transferred. Names of enslaved persons as follows: Hamp, Amanda, Ann, George,
Cheny, Dick, Mary, Sally, Isaac, Eliza, Silva, Warren, Ada, Elizabeth, Marian, Lucinda, Rose, George Edmund, Martha
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Identifier: |
ms3687 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4085 |
Title: |
G. W. Lee requisition for forage
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Creator: |
Lee, G. W., Major |
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Dates: |
1863 November 17 |
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This collection contains a requisition for ten days of forage for corn and fodder for public and private horses, mules, and
oxen in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Identifier: |
ms3688 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4086 |
Title: |
Erwin James Eldridge letters to his wife
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Eldridge, Erwin James, 1833-1902 |
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Dates: |
1862 April 27-28 |
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Two letters from Eldridge to his wife that discuss his clothing, religious beliefs, duty to serve, and their expected baby,
he also describes a fight in Yorktown.
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Identifier: |
ms3689 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4087 |
Title: |
Ellen Buchanan Screven My biography
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Creator: |
Screven, Ellen Buchanan, 1841- |
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Dates: |
1915 |
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The collection consists of My biography by Ellen Buchanan Screven, written in 1915. The manuscript contains information on
growing up in Annapolis, Maryland, the outbreak of the Civil War, social life in Mobile, Alabama, during the war, the 1876
yellow fever epidemic in Georgia, the death of her husband, raising her children alone, and the relationship between her family
and the black slaves or servants. The collection contains one bound manuscript, and two typescripts.
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Identifier: |
ms369 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4088 |
Title: |
Ku Klux Klan Charter for Bowden, Georgia
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Creator: |
Simmons, W. J. (William Joseph), 1880-1945 |
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Dates: |
1918 December 4 |
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A charter issued by Imperial Wizard William Joseph Simmons (1880-1945) on December 4, 1918, for an order of the Klan to be
located in Bowden, Georgia. The charter is in response to a petition by citizens listed on the charter for the Chas. B. McDaniel
Klan No. 11.
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Identifier: |
ms3690 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4089 |
Title: |
Georgiana Vertical Files, Georgia Biographical Files
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Creator: |
Hargrett Library |
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Dates: |
1800-2010 |
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This portion of the Georgiana Vertical files collection covers biographical topics related to Georgia. Clippings came from
the daily newspapers of Athens, Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Savannah and and the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Identifier: |
ms3692 |
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Repository: |
Hargrett Library |
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| 4090 |
Title: |
Georgiana Vertical Files, Georgia Cities
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Creator: |
Hargrett Library |
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Dates: |
1800-2010 |
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This poriton of the Georgiana Vertical Files collection consists of newsclippings that document specific cities in Georgia.
Clippings come from the daily newspapers of Athens, Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Savannah and the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Identifier: |
ms3693 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4091 |
Title: |
Georgiana Vertical Files collection, Georgia counties files
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Creator: |
Hargrett Library |
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Dates: |
1800-2010 |
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This portion of the collection documents counties in Georgia. Clippings were accepted from all sources but the most regular
clippings come from the daily newspapers of Athens, Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Savannah and and the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Identifier: |
ms3694 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4092 |
Title: |
Putnam County (Ga.) Superior Court docket ledgers
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Creator: |
Georgia. Superior Court (Putnam County) |
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Dates: |
1819-1887 |
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This collection consists of the court dockets for the Superior Court of Putnam County, Georgia. The information in the ledgers
includes types of crimes; monetary recompense; and names of plaintiffs, defendants, and judges. The Criminal Docket lists
various crimes such as, "keeping open a tippling house on Sabbath," "assault with intent to murder," "counterfeiting," and
"furnishing a slave with spirituous liquor." The Sheriff sale ledger lists the property owner and their property to be sold,
sometimes including slave names.
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Identifier: |
ms3695 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4093 |
Title: |
Calder Willingham typescript and letter
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Creator: |
Willingham, Calder, 1922-1995 |
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Dates: |
1963 |
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This collection consists of a letter and a nine page unpublished typescript for an article titled, "Why Not Hang Yourself,
Diana?" In the letter Willingham writes to William Shawn of the New Yorker on December 19, 1963 and encloses the article he
has written in response to Diana Trilling's article in Esquire on Edward Albee.
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Identifier: |
ms3696 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4094 |
Title: |
Marcellus Stanley family papers
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Creator: |
Stanley, Marcellus, 1823-1890 |
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Dates: |
1861-1864 |
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This collection consists of correspondence, photograph cards, a journal, and a muster roll of Captain Stanley's Troup Artillery
for November and December 1861. The correspondence is mainly between Stanley and his wife Julia. He writes from Camp Lawton
(Savannah) in 1861 and then from Tallahassee and Quincy, Florida. The journal includes entries from Benjamin Henry Pope in
1862 as he serves in Company K, 9th Mississippi Infantry, and provides details of battles in the Glasgow/Cave City/Munfordville,
Kentucky area. The photographs are of Marcellus Stanley, Alexander Franklin Pope, and G. T. Beauregard.
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Identifier: |
ms3697 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4095 |
Title: |
John M. White shop book
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Creator: |
White, John M. |
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Dates: |
1882-1885, 1898 |
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The shop book contains accounts for customers (probably in DeKalb County, Georgia). It lists the customer name, date, cost,
and services (such as sharpening a plow or repairing a wagon wheel or garden hoe). The accounts for 1884-1885 concern cotton
sales. Also included are a few recipes from newspapers and an 1898 church program for the Mill District Sunday School Association
Clifton Church. There are modern day notebook pages taped over some pages in the book. On these are handwritten transcripts
of letters from an unidentified father to his son in Savannah, Georgia regarding the sale of enslaved people on a plantation.
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Identifier: |
ms3698 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4096 |
Title: |
Walter McWilliams diary
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Creator: |
McWilliams, Henry Walter, 1857-1936 |
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Dates: |
1878 |
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This diary lists the daily life of Walter McWilliams. It covers his daily routine in detail, such as getting up, eating breakfast,
feeding his canary Sweety, cutting woods, playing the organ and guitar, going to the plantation, planting fruit trees, visiting
friends, buying newspapers, going to church. He often mentions his mother's drinking problem and is also greatly preoccupied
with his love for his girlfriend, later his wife, Lula (Luella).
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Identifier: |
ms3699 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4097 |
Title: |
John Mason Giles papers
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Creator: |
Giles, John Mason, 1818-1866 |
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Dates: |
1837-1897 |
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The collection consists of papers of and concerning John Mason Giles from 1837-1897. Papers of Giles include a letter from
Giles to his parents, a letter addressed to Giles, admittance to practice law in Superior Courts of Georgia, catalogue of
the officers and students of the male high school in Perry, Georgia, and prospectus of a select school in Perry, Georgia.
Papers concerning Giles include a typewritten copy of the epitaph from his tombstone. The collection also includes a memorial
address made by Judge Samuel Andrew Giles.
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Identifier: |
ms37 |
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| 4098 |
Title: |
History of the State Normal School, Athens, Georgia manuscript
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Creator: |
Sell, E. S. (Edward Scott), 1887-1972 |
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Dates: |
1923 |
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The collection consists of the manuscript copy of History of the State Normal School, Athens, Georgia by E. S. Sell, dated
1923. Sell writes about early history of Gilmer Hall, permanent organization of the state Normal School, curriculum, gifts
to the school, buildings on campus, and the names of presidents and faculty. The manuscript contains handwritten notations
and corrections.
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Identifier: |
ms370 |
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Hargrett Library |
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| 4099 |
Title: |
Susan Myrick papers
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Creator: |
Myrick, Susan |
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Dates: |
1916-2010 |
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The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material and media. Most of the material in the
collections concerns Myrick's work as a consultant on the movie Gone with the Wind. The correspondence includes memos to and
from Myrick regarding her suggestions on the movie set; the writings include a typescript of the diary Myrick wrote in Hollywood
while an advisor for the movie. From her diary Myrick sent back material for her columns in the Macon Telegraph and these
columns were edited by Richard Harwell and published in 1982 as White Columns in Hollywood. Also included are examples of
the columns and articles Myrick wrote for the Macon Telegraph from 1928 until her retirement in 1967. Photographs are both
personal and professional in nature, depicting Myrick and her travels as well as Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind.
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Identifier: |
ms3700 |
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| 4100 |
Title: |
David Donovan papers
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Creator: |
Donovan, David |
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Dates: |
1960-2012 |
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This collection consists of correspondence, manuscript drafts, printed material, photographs, and Vietnam War memorabilia.
The correspondence includes fan mail, Vietnam war letters, and correspondence with publishers.
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ms3701 |
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