Jule Carnes Mitchell, Jr. ephemera collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Jule Carnes Mitchell, Jr. ephemera collection
Creator: Mitchell, David Yoakley
Inclusive Dates: 1850-2020
Language(s): English
Extent: 10 Linear Feet 7 boxes, 2 oversized boxes, 3 oversized folders, 1 item
Collection Number: ms4277
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Scope and Content

This collection contains a variety of artifacts, including things such as a baseball signed by Negro Baseball League great James "Red" Moore, a southern cookbook, Alabama  sales tax tokens, campaign ephemera, and other items collected from Georgia businesses. Other items include an iron ball and chain, and purple glass shards collected from cemetery grounds, and folk art.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Jule Carnes Mitchell, Jr. ephemera collection, ms4277, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

General Notes

This collection forms part of the Jule Carnes Mitchell, Jr. Archive of Southern Record.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Signed baseball - James "Red" Moore

 

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Old Dixie Cookbook

 

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Alabama  sales tax tokens

 

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Chauncey Sparks campaign ad with sales tax token, 1938

 

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Office of Price Administration Red Point token, 1941-1945

 

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J.L. Chalifoux and Company premium token, 1890-1907

 

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Newspaper fragment - slave sale advertisement

 

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Stationery - Wiley Brothers - Social Circle, Georgia

 

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Booklet - A Message to School Children - West Palm Beach, Florida Police Department

 

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Eufaula Heritage Association - articles of incorporation

 

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Atlanta Citizens' Council Bulletin, v.1, no.6, 1966 June

 

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Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream, Southern Christian Leadership Conference - pendant

 

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Ephemera - postcards, advertisements

 

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Stereoscope cards (2) - Keystone View Co., No.12324 -- (a) "Trouble Ahead," (b) "Trouble Behind", 1902

 

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Luther Judson Price High/Middle School history

 

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Wesleyan Female College commencement program, 1889

 

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Photographs - miscellaneous

 

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Letter, signed photograph - Herman Talmadge, 1973

 

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Iron ball and chain

 

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Pick head - marked Reidsville GSP

 

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Purple glass shards - collected at Glennville Cemetery in Alabama

 

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Metal signs (3) - "Colored Upstairs, Colored Served at Back, Colored Only"

 

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Pennants - Booker T. Washington Bulldogs - white felt with blue letters (2)

 

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Forrest Cavalry Liniment - 6" clear glass bottle with label

 

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D.A.R. letter to new U.S. citizens

 

5	2	Paintbrush
		Found behind Atlanta Cyclorama, possibly used during restoration.

 

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"I knew Them All" - by Elmer P. Grant

 

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Receipts from local businesses - Southwest Georgia, Southeast Alabama, 1975

 

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Postcards - Political, personal

 

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Marriage license - Mitchell County, Georgia - Y.J.A. Smith and Travis E. Whitaker, 1918

 

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Invitation - Floyd Rifles 50th Anniversary, 1891

 

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Invitations (3), 1880-1883

 

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The Sons of Jesse Pleasant Stallings of Jones County, Georgia - By Bill Stallings

 

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Small felt banner - Gertrude McCoy

 

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Ceramic garden tiles- tombstone shaped (4)

Donated in honor of Deacon Arthur Brinson

 

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Water fountain

A note accompanying the object states "This is the last segregated water fountain in Albany (from a movie theater)... obtained in 1970."Donated in honor of Deacon Arthur Brinson and Mrs. Louise O'Neal Brinson.

 

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Purple glass - broken pitcher

 

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Mechanical bank - African American man with lever operated arm and eyes (missing hand) - "Jolly Nigger Bank" - John Harper & Co., England

 

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Dancing man toy - painted wood - R.H. Howland, Evans, Georgia - jointed black faced man mounted with wire onto on platform

 

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Book - "House Document" - agricultural report with clippings pasted in, 1853

 

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Willie Jinks - painting on wood - Seated man and words: "Help I one gron sone not ne don"

 

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Signed hard tack - Spanish American War bisquit, 1898

 

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Yardstick - Steve M. Solomon Jr. Inc.

 

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Glass nursing bottle - Tilly Drug Co., Rome, Georgia