Beehive Press papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Beehive Press papers
Creator: Beehive Press
Inclusive Dates: 1972-1993
Language(s): English
Extent: 1.25 Linear Feet 2 document boxes, 1 half box, 1 oversized folder
Collection Number: ms3118
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

The Beehive Press was founded by Mills Lane in 1970 in Savannah, Georgia. It specializes in publishing books about the cultural and social history of Georgia and the South. For more information, see the Beehive Press website.

Edward J. Cashin (1927-2007) was a historian of colonial and Revolutionary-era Georgia. Cashin served on the faculty of Augusta State University from 1969 until his retirement in 1996. He then founded the Center for the Study of Georgia Historyand served as its director. For more information, see the article Edward J. Cashin at the New Georgia Encyclopedia..

Scope and Content

The collection consists of broadsides, catalogs, clippings, letters, book covers, and other material relating to books that Beehive Press published. Complete galleys, proofs, and typescript for Setting Out to Begin a New World is also included.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Beehive Press papers, ms3118, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2009 September 11.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Book - The First Twentv-Five Years of the Beehive Press (softcover)

 

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Book - The First Twenty-Five Years of the Beehive Press (hardcover)

 

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Catalogs, 1972-1978 & 1992-1996

 

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Clippings, 1972-1975

 

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Empty envelope

 

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Form letters, promotional material

 

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Labels for exhibit

 

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Letters (mainly to Felix Hargrett), 1972-1979 & 1991

 

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Miscellany

 

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Page designs (not used)

 

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Receipts (Felix Hargrett), 1972-1978

 

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Book covers, promotional - Architecture of the Old South

 

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Book covers, promotional - Dear Mother

 

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Book covers, promotional - Free Joe

 

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Book covers, promotional - General Oglethorpe's Georgia

 

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Book covers, promotional - Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

 

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Book covers, promotional - Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas

 

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Book covers, promotional - Memoirs or a Ouick Glance at My Various Travels

 

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Book covers, promotional - The Most Delightful Country of the Universe

 

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Book covers, promotional - The New South

 

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Book covers, promotional - The People of Georgia

 

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Book covers, promotional - The Rambler in Georgia

 

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Book covers, promotional - Reconstruction in Georgia

 

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Book covers, promotional - Savannah Revisited

 

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Book covers, promotional - Slave Life in Georgia

 

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Book covers, promotional - Standing Upon the Mouth of a Volcano

 

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Book covers, promotional - Times That Prove People's Principles

 

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Book covers, promotional - Uncle Remus

 

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Book covers, promotional - A Wilderness Still the Cradle of Nature

 

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Setting Out to Begin a New World - Galleys, Proofs

 

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Setting Out to Begin a New World - Typescript

 

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Broadsides - Savannah Revisited: A Pictorial History, Dartmouth College Library Salutes Mills Lane and The Beehive Press, The Beehive Press Proudly Announces the Publication of Dear Mother: Don't Grieve About Me, and The Beehive Foundation Proudly Announces The People of Georgia, 1990-1999