Payne and White families papers

Descriptive Summary
Title: Payne and White families papers
Creator: White, Patricia Payne
Creator: Payne, Rufus, -1996
Inclusive Dates: 1809-1987
Language(s): English
Extent: 2 Linear Feet
Collection Number: ms4494
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Rufus Payne graduated Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine (1933) and John Hopkins School of Public Health (1939). Dr. Payne served as superintendent fo the Georgia State Tuberculosis Hospital and later worked at the Battery State Tuberculosis Hospital and finally Talmadge Hospital. He met his wife Ruth White in Virginia where she worked as a nurse supervisor in the operating room. The couple had three children: Patricia Payne-White, Peter Payne, and Penny Payne Hughes.

Scope and Content

This collection contains family photographs, correspondence between Ann Ruth White and Rufus F. Payne, family history, artifacts and ephemera.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item, box, folder], Payne and White families papers, ms4494, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1932

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1933 January-April

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1933 May-August

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1933 September-December

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1934 January-April

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1934 July

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White - Rufus Payne, 1934 August

 

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Correspondence - Ruth White, 1929-1934

 

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Correspondence - Ruth, Rufus Payne

 

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Rufus Payne - Medical School, Battery Hospital

 

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Ruth White - Education

 

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Ruth White - Nursing School notebooks

 

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Ephemera - Ration books, recipe, cards

 

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Family History - Ruth, Rufus Payne family

 

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Family History - Payne

 

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Family History - White

 

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Family History - Spivey

 

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Family History - Lassiter

 

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Family History - Lassiter

 

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Ledger - John D. White, 1809-1811

 

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Photographs - Ruth, Rufus Payne family

 

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Photographs - Isaac N. Payne family

 

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Photograph reproductions - C.B. Fowler Jr.

 

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Photographs - Unidentified prtraits, children, house

 

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Slides, negatives

 

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Family Bible

 

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Mounted photograph - Alumni of University of Georgia Medical Department, 1912

damaged, broken in two pieces and sleeved.

 

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Mounted photograph - Portrait of a man

very fragile, broken in several pieces and sleeved

 

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Ephemera - small crocheted acorns