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Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers

Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers

Descriptive Summary

Title: Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers
Creator: Green, Mary Blount, 1896-1978
Inclusive Dates: 1816-1984
Language(s): English
Extent: 8 Linear Feet 7 boxes, 1 oversized box, 1 oversized folder
Collection Number: ms4047
Repository: Hargrett Library

Collection Description

Historical Note

Mary Blount Green (1896-1978) was an Atlanta Public Schools elementary school teacher from Clinton, Georgia. Her husband John Benjamin Green, Jr. (1893-1961) was a landowner and farmer. They had a son, Ronald Green. Mary Green's parents were Charles Thomas Andrews and Alice Bowen Andrews, both from Clinton, Georgia.

Scope and Content

This collection contains teaching materials, artifacts, records, and correspondence regarding Mary Blount Green, her husband John B. Green, and their son Ronald. It also contains correspondence and records of her parents, Charles and Alice Andrews, and other relatives in the Bowen and Lamar families.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Mary Blount Bowen/Green papers, ms4047, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

General Notes

This collection makes up part of the William Lamar Cawthon Jr. Collection of Southern Cultural Understanding.


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Andrews family
Bowen family
Correspondence
Family records.
Farmers -- Correspondence.
Genealogy.
Georgia -- Agriculture -- Farms and farming.
Green, John Benjamin, Jr.
Green, Mary Blount, 1896-1978
Jones County (Ga.) -- Records and correspondence.
Lamar family
Teachers -- Georgia -- Correspondence.

Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Mary Blount Green family

boxfolder
11Mary B. Andrews (Green) - school
12-3Mary B. Andrews (Green) - school notebooks
14-5Mary B. Green - teaching
boxfolder
61Mary B. Green - teaching
boxfolder
16Mary B. Green - teaching notebooks, materials
17Mary B. Green - teaching - daybooks
18Mary B. Green - teacher planners
19Mary B. Green - teaching notebook
110Mary B. Green - Atlanta public schools
111Mary B. Green - miscellaneous
112Mary B. Green - Wartime Rent Adjustment petition, 1942
113Mary B. Green - legal documents
114Mary B. Green - photographs
115Mary B. Andrews (Green) - postcard album, 1907
boxfolder
62-3Mary B. Andrews Green - correspondence
64-6Mary B. Andrews Green - Alice B. Adrews - correspondence
67-9Mary B. Green - correspondence from J. B. Green
boxfolder
21-4Mary B. Green - correspondence
25-9Mary B. Green - correspondence from J. B. Green, 1924-1960
boxfolder
610Mary B. Green - correspondence regarding John's death, 1961
611Mary B. Green - sympathy correspondence
boxfolder
210J. B. Green, Jr. - correspondence from Mary B. Green
211-12J. B. Green, Jr. - correspondence
213Mary B. Green - correspondence from Ronald Green
214Ronald Green - correspondence from parents, 1948-1949
boxfolder
612Ronald Green - correspondence
boxfolder
31Ronald Green - correspondence - personal, school
32Ronald Green - school records, correspondence
33Ronald Green - school work
34Ronald Green - Boys High School of Atlanta yearbook - Alciphonian, 1946
35Ronald Green - Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School yearbook - Franderoan, 1948
36Ronald Green - birth certificates
37Mary Elizabeth Green memorial - Norcross High School yearbook - Spectrarama, 1968
boxfolder
41Mary B. Green - family history
42Financial records
43Insurance
44Mary B. Andrews (Green) - music
45 A Liberty Loan Primer , 1918
46Printed material
oversized_box
1Mary B. Green - Teachers certificates, 1916, 1924, 1928, 1937
1J. B. Green, Jr. - day book, 1920-1925
1Ronald Green - high school diploma
1Oversized family photographs
1Bible
1Sheet music for piano
1 Little Tot's Black Beauty , 1913
boxfolder
613Mary B. Green - notebook, printed material
614John B. Green, Jr.
615Ronald Green - school book, scrapbook
616Street photographs - Mary B. and Ronald Green
boxfolder
721Printed material
722Photographs - Mary B. Green
723Photographs - Ronald Green
724Photographs - Green family
725Photographs - unidentified
726Negatives
727Mary Blount Green - estate
oversized_folder
1Mary Blount Andrews - DAR certificate, 1922
boxfolder
730Mary Blount Andrews - autograph book
731Ronald Green - ephemera
 

2. Charles Thomas Andrews - Alice Bowen Andrews

boxfolder
38Mary B. Green (Andrews) - correspondence to Alice Andrews
39-10Alice B. Andrews - correspondence to Mary B. Green (Andrews), 1917-1926
311Alice B. Andrews - correspondence
boxfolder
617-18Alice B. Andrews - correspondence
boxfolder
312Alice Bowen Andrews
boxfolder
71Alice B. Andrews - business
boxfolder
313C.T. Andrews - correspondence and petition regarding livestock loss to railroad, 1895, 1904
314Charles Thomas Andrews
boxfolder
72Charles T., Alice B. Andrews - photographs
73Alice B. Andrews - memorial record, 1962
 

3. Bowen family

boxfolder
315Irene Bowen - correspondence
316Sallie Bowen - gift scrapbook
317Will - Mary Bowen
318Bowen family records - Antebellum
box
5Bowen family bible
includes register of African American births from 1824-1858.
boxfolder
74Horatio Bowen - list of lands purchased by Taylor & Bowen in Columbus, Mississippi, 1836
75Sarah "Sally" Bowen Hamilton Swanson - diary, 1854
76Sallie E. Bowen - Garland album [autographs], 1853
77Irene Bowen - writing - Missy Sa'
78Bowen family history
79Family history notes - Mary B. Green
710Bowen family - William Cawthon research
711Bowen and allied families - letters - William Cawthon research
712Bowen - South Carolina and upper Georgia - William Cawthon research
713Bowen - Wales - William Cawthon research
714Bowen letters - copies of letters of Horatio - William Cawthon research
715Bowen family interviews - William Cawthon research
716Bowen and Blount family interviews - William Cawthon research
717Visiting cards, Mary Bowen's little painting
718Correspondence, unidentified
719Writing, invitation
720Time book for field party 1 - James Blair, foreman, 1936
732Tinted photographs - Wedding portraits of Thomas, Mary Blount Bowen
 

4. Blount family

boxfolder
728Blount family - William Cawthon research
729David E. Blount - correspondence
oversized_folder
1Family tree - Blount Family of Virginia
1Family tree - Blount and Blunt
 

5. Lamar family

boxfolder
319Dorothy Blount Lamar
320Ledger book