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Box 4265.003

 Container

Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Johnson Blackburn Poetry Book, after 1924

 File — Box: 4265.003, Case: 1
Scope and Contents This file contains a 134-page looseleaf volume of typed works by Georgia folklorist and poet Mary Johnson Blackburn called How Fairies Are Made and Other Verse for the Youngest to the Oldest. The book includes 117 poems that are primarily about childhood, as well as numerous hand-drawn illustrations by Blackburn. The first page of the looseleaf volume contains an address label that reads: "Mary Johnson Blackburn (Mrs. Robt.) 972 Virginia Ave. N.E. Atlanta,...
Dates: after 1924

European History Manuscript Roll, circa 1870

 File — Box: 4265.003, Case: 2
Scope and Contents This file contains a handwritten manuscript roll (two inches wide and less than an inch in diameter) of Chapters XII through XV in a book on European history. The chapters discuss the end of feudalism and the enfranchisement of the commons, the Crusades, the development of French monarchy, and representative government.
Dates: circa 1870