Georgia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79023113
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Shaw Collection of Martha Berry Schools Material
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4229
Overview
This collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, and magazines relating to Martha Berry and her schools in Mount Berry, Georgia, from 1921-1947. Martha Berry (1865-1942) established The Berry Schools in the late 1890s to provide education to academically able but economically poor children near Rome, Georgia, located in Southern Appalachia. Board of Trustees member and friend of Martha Berry, Albert Shaw--an early-twentieth- century journalist and scholar, best known for his work as...
Dates:
1921 - 1947
Album 1, 1948 - 1950
File — Box 5351: Series Box 5351 [1006080853], Folder: album 1
Identifier: Album 1
Abstract
Hermann family visit to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Mississippi River; LSU Rodeo; family Christmas 1948, 1949 and 1950; visit to Canada; Zell's graduation picture; Singleton family home in Pompano, Florida; Hermann family visits to Fairhope, Mobile, Alabama; Sea Island, Georgia; St. Augustine, Florida; and Waukula, Florida.
Dates:
1948 - 1950
Benjamin Rice Holt Papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0159
Overview
Letters and papers of this Confederate soldier and his family during the Civil War and afterwards.
Dates:
1860 - 1939
C. L. Boynton maps
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0197
Abstract
Printed maps of Georgia with additions showing routes taken for "botanical tours."
Dates:
1895-1902
Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4339
Scope and Contents
This collection from Buckner Hospital, dating from April 1862 to April 1865, is comprised of one ledger of patients treated by the hospital’s mobile unit and one ledger of medical orders. The patient ledger is 343 pages and contains patient names, ranks, regiments, companies, complaints and applied treatments, and whether the patient was discharged or died. The medical orders ledger is 141 pages of general and specific orders concerning medical treatment at field hospitals.
The ledgers are...
Dates:
1862-04 - 1865-04
Charles Summersell Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2012-025
Abstract
Photographs, majority are iconographic, filmstrips, slides, audio cassettes, hand-written notebooks, microfilms and negatives, bulk dates: 1860-mid 1900s. A procedure is now underway of accessing and housing the ‘photographic’ collection. Photographs originally stored in 22 cartons and one Hollinger boxes; other items include 7 cartons of Alabama filmstrips, 5 Hollinger boxes containing filmstrips and audio tapes relating to history of Alabama, Florida, Illinois, California, Ohio and...
Dates:
1860 - 1900
Georgia Census 1850 and 1860
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0566
Abstract
Handwritten census records for counties in Georgia. Contains information on numbers of slaves, acres of improved and unimproved land, and value of farms. Summary information provided for some counties. Counties included (1850): Elbert, Franklin, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Greene, Gordon, Hall, Harris, Heard, Henry, and Houston. Counties included (1860): Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glynn, Gordon, Hall, Harrid, Heard, Houston, Lowndes, and Montgomery.
Dates:
unknown
Reverend E. A. Henderson Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2010-019
Abstract
Collection consists of four photographs of Chickamauga Battlefield in Georgia and Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dates:
1905
Mary Johnson Blackburn Poetry Book, after 1924
File — Box 4265.003: [1006233188], 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
E. O. McElroy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3758
Overview
Ten U.S. postal service railroad mail service directories for several southeastern states: Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; letters, postal rating exams, etc.
Dates:
1938-1948
Peter Brannon papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates:
1900-1966
L. W. Shepherd letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1263
Abstract
A letter dated 6 December 1863, from a camp near Dalton, Georgia, to S. D. Cabaniss, Huntsville attorney.
Dates:
1863 December 6
Southern Trade and Diplomacy Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4214
Overview
The collection consists of one letter and two pamphlets related to trade and diplomacy in the antebellum South.
Dates:
1837 - 1860
George Stritikus papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1360
Abstract
This collection contains materials on floriculture in Alabama, including papers on roses and on old English boxwoods, a plant inventory of Fendall Hall, Eufaula, Alabama, and indexes of plants mentioned in books on Alabama and Georgia plantations and homes, plus photos, garden plans, and written descriptions from Stitikus's traveling exhibit, "Alabama : Her People, Houses and Gardens," (1986).
Dates:
1981-1986
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.019: [1006241516]
Identifier: 2009-082
Abstract
This collection consists of fifteen photographs depicting places and people with some of them taken in Georgia and Florida.
Dates:
1909 - 1910
William Joseph Mims Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0992
Abstract
Material on Mims' family history and materials relating to Weevilnip Company of Macon, Georgia. The collection includes correspondence with the U.S. Department of Agriculture relating to false labeling, as well as company advertising. The collection also contains two small notepads, one with notes on teaching and one with notes on history, boll weevils, and other subjects.
Dates:
1886 - 1924