Georgia memorabilia

Descriptive Summary
Title: Georgia memorabilia
Creator: Hargrett Library
Inclusive Dates: 1800s-1900s
Language(s): English
Extent: 2 Linear Feet 1 document box and 1 oversize box
Collection Number: ms1116
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Scope and Content

The collection consists of miscellaneous memorabilia and relics related to the State of Georgia and Georgia relics. Included are a tattered Confederate flag given to University President Harmon Caldwell in 1947 (allegedly of 1863 Georgia origin, but found not to be authentic); wire-rim glasses from Ballard's opticians of Atlanta; silver plate butter knife made by Geo. Sharp, Jr. of Atlanta; Dahlonega (Georgia) mementos including two commemorative tokens and a miniature pan with a small piece of gold ore; a curl; a lock of hair supposed to be Button Gwinnett's; a watch fob stamped 1G3; a medical instrument; a box of miniature Georgia state flags; pine needles formed into a bow from the Barrow collection; a brick from Old Wesleyan; Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial granite; a 1925 Stone Mountain memorial coin; and a Fulton County Centennial medal 1854-1864.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Georgia memorabilia, MS 1116. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Wire-rim glasses from Ballard's opticians of Atlanta (gift of Mrs. Alfred Scott)

 

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Silver plate butter knife made by Geo. Sharp, Jr. of Atlanta

 

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Dahlonega, Georgia mementoes: Two commenmorative tokens and a miniature pan with small piece of gold ore

 

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Curl (gift of William G. Haynes, Jr. of Darien)

 

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Lock of hair, supposedly Button Gwinnett's

 

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Watch fob stamped 1 G 3

 

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Medical instrument

 

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Box of miniature Georgia State flags

 

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Pine needles formed into a bow from the Barrow collection

 

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Brick from Old Wesleyan (gift of Kenneth Coleman 1964)

 

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Stone Mountain (Atlanta, GA) memorial coin, 1925

 

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Fulton County Centennial medal

 

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Stone Mountain (Atlanta, GA) Confederate Memorial - granite

 

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Commemorative centennial bronze coin for the R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company in Newnan, Georgia, 1954

 

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Tattered Confederate flag given to University President Harmon Caldwell in 1947, supposedly of 1863 Georgia origin, but determined not authentic (with two articles about it)