Archives and Special Collections

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 36 boxes of textual material, two boxes of artifacts (including the Dictaphone machine used in her therapy sessions and other items including the two phonograph albums, framed photos and other personal material/ and a box of slides and VHS tapes. In addition to this material, Carson McCullers’ personal library from her home at 131 South Broadway in Nyack, New York was part of Dr. Mercer’s bequest to the Columbus State University Archives, and is separately housed...

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Materials in the collection document the rich and proud tradition of education and public service of Columbus College/Columbus State University, 1958 - present.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: It is important to note that the survival of the various types of documentation across the nearly 140 years of its existence is very uneven. There are large gaps in each of the series. T he minutes of the Board of Directors, for example, is virtually complete for the period from 1898 through 1947 and virtually non-existent for the period before that. The same disparity holds true for most of the other series. There has been significant physical damage to many of records, especially the...

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This collection consists of photographs, awards, plaques and seven scrapbooks documenting the career of Tom B. Buck, III. Awards and certificates have been removed from their original frames and placed in folders. Photographs were removed from their frames as well and placed in folders. The vast majority of the materials show Tom standing with other lawmakers including Governors, representatives, and celebrities.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These archives contain documentation from the founding of the organization through the 2010s. These records are arranged in the following 10 series:Series 1 - Publications of the ITG (Journal, Newsletter, etc.)Series 2 - Publications received by the ITG (alphabetically arranged)Series 3 - Constitution and By-Laws (chronologically arranged)Series 4 - Board of Directors Meetings (chronologically arranged)Series 5 - Correspondence...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains books relating to the local area and to broader subjects which interested her, i.e. the American Red Cross, the Presbyterian Church, art, segregation, and politics, including some anti-F.D. Roosevelt pieces. It also includes clippings involving and sermons of John Calvin Reid, Robert McNeill and James V. Johnson, all ministers at the First Presbyterian Church; the minutes, 1939-1961, history, 1928-1950, programs, 1951-1962, and related materials for the Charter...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains books relating to the local area and to broader subjects which interested her, i.e. the American Red Cross, the Presbyterian Church, art, segregation, and politics, including some anti-F.D. Roosevelt pieces. It also includes clippings involving and sermons of John Calvin Reid, Robert McNeill and James V. Johnson, all ministers at the First Presbyterian Church; the minutes, 1939-1961, history, 1928-1950, programs, 1951-1962, and related materials for the Charter...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These archives contain documentation from the founding of the organization through the 2010s. These records are arranged in the following 10 series:Series 1 - Publications of the ITG (Journal, Newsletter, etc.)Series 2 - Publications received by the ITG (alphabetically arranged)Series 3 - Constitution and By-Laws (chronologically arranged)Series 4 - Board of Directors Meetings (chronologically arranged)Series 5 - Correspondence...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: These archives contain documentation from the founding of the organization through the 2010s. These records are arranged in the following 10 series:Series 1 - Publications of the ITG (Journal, Newsletter, etc.)Series 2 - Publications received by the ITG (alphabetically arranged)Series 3 - Constitution and By-Laws (chronologically arranged)Series 4 - Board of Directors Meetings (chronologically arranged)Series 5 - Correspondence...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of the papers of Dr. Dews, mainly related to his research on Carson McCullers. This material includes posters from film versions of McCullers' books, books and monographs, recordings, photographs, Carson McCullers Society newsletters, playbills and copious scholarly work related to his dissertation and books relating to Carson McCullers, both published and unpublished. In the latter category are the research files for his projected study of the time Carson...