Scope and Contents Smith saved everything: manuals for new cars and appliances, travel brochures, road maps, house plans, etc. He managed the Southern Coal Company, owned rental property, and had other investments in property. He saved all his real estate records, including all the paperwork required by the Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II as well as information about the implementation and operation of the OPA. One of his passions was politics. There are two brief letters from Tom...

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This collection consists of photographs of cotton ginning equipment, plans and models of such equipment, and of the facilities of the Centennial Cotton Gin Company in Columbus, Georgia (1920s-1960s).

In addition to the images of the cotton ginning operations, there is a separate envelop of photographs of Coca-Cola delivery trucks, as well as some of the Columbus bottling facilities of Coca-Cola 1910s-1960s. 1910s-1960s 1 box (1 l.f.)

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials which were located in a single filing cabinet and represent research from former Museum Curator and archaeologist, Frank T. Schnell and Joseph Mahan. Materials cover topics such as Native American culture in the Southeast, archaeology, Chattahoochee River, Confederate Navy, various museum exhibits, Westville, Mobile Museum, and more. The collection is roughly arranged the way in which they were found in the original filing cabinet and have been arranged...

Scope and Contents These materials include: city and county records; family papers; business-related materials; Civil War records; military records; biographical sketches; transportation records; records of local institutions such as The Bradley Theater, Fort Benning, Historic Columbus Foundation; various textile mills; and notable local people such as poet and physician Francis Orray Ticknor, Tom Darby, the Benning Family, the Boykin Family, a riverboat pilot named Will Carpenter, and others. Most of the...

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The contents of this small collection for the Industrial Schools consists of two parts. The Primary School consists of contracts for the building and renovations of the school. The contents for the Secondary School consist of photocopies of the contents of the cornerstone with some information on its opening.

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Collection consists of personal correspondence, invitations, and a deed of gift to Fannie Duffie and various Duffie family members including John L. Duffie, Henrietta A. Duffie, and her daughter, Charles A. Duffie. Note: the last name is spelled Duffie and Duffee throughout the collection.

Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection deals with the financial transactions of (and especially debts owed to) Seaborn Jones, the records of his (and to a lesser degree Benning's) law practice, and the Civil War correspondence and records of Henry L. Benning. T he legal papers contain copies of suits and various estate proceedings for a wide variety of individuals; these items reflect other aspects of antebellum life in Georgia, particularly the institution of slavery. Jones's papers included a leather...

Content Description This collection contains the personal papers and research materials of Isabel G. Patterson. The collection is separated into four (4) series:1. Series 1 - Georgia History and Archaeology - research files, correspondence and other materials related to Georgia history, Indian sites, and the development of various projects. 2. Series 2 - Hernando DeSoto Manuscript/Personal Papers - contains correspondence and research of Hernando DeSoto’s journey through Georgia....

Scope and Contents This collection contains a series of wartime letters written by James Aaron Fuller from 1862 to 1864. Another letter, written in November 1865, is from Ellen Whiteside to Fuller after the close of the American Civil War. Fuller was a Private in Company K of the 47th Alabama Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Also included in this collection are: ● State pension applications from 1897 to 1924 ● A brief service record of Fuller ● A...