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Contains 12 Results:

Boykin Family Record , 1953 - 1953

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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Photostatic copy of a typescript family tree, done by Lex B. Owens of the Alabama Department of Archives and History (1953).

Dates: Other: 1953 - 1953

Bradley Theatre

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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Pamphlet entitled The Development of the Theatre: Synopsis of Studios Made for Creation of Mural in the Bradley Theater, Columbus, Georgia (n.d.)

Dates: 1790 - 1971

Collier, Barron

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
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Newspaper clippings about the life and career of Barron G. Collier (1873-1939), advertising executive, hotelier, philanthropist, property developer and the largest land-owner in Florida. Folder includes a copy of The Journalist (vol. 36, no. 2 of October 29, 1904) with a profile of Collier, an issue of American Mutual Magazine of the mid-1920s, and a copy of How is Business in the United States? by Barron Collier

Dates: 1790 - 1971

Fort Benning, 1934 March 2

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
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A copy of the Benning Herald, vol. 3, No. 45 (March 2, 1934); 2 newspaper clippings from the 1920s, and three photographs from the mid-1920s, showing the Children's School, tents and trucks

Dates: Other: 1934 March 2

Georgia League of Historical Societies, 1968 - 1969

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Newsletters and conference materials (1968-1969). .

Dates: Other: 1968 - 1969

Columbus, City of, Land Deeds

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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Letter from Joseph B. Mahan, Jr. to M. R. Hemperly, GA Surveyor General's Department, Archives and History Building (April 15, 1968), requesting copies of Columbus-related land grants. There are also multiple copies of a two-page list of names, presumably those for which copies ere requested.

Dates: 1790 - 1971

Columbus, Georgia, General

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Alphabetical list of burials in Linwood Cemetery (n.d.); burial lists for Ft. Benning Cemeteries ( n.d.); burial list for Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery on Double Churches Road (n.d.); notes of a conversation with Tom Darby, one of the authors of the Columbus Stockade Blues and other songs (November 8, 1966); clippings with obituaries of another author of the Stockade Blues, John “Jimmy” Tariton (1977), program of the Columbus Centennial, 1828-1928, April 25-26-27, (1928); a copy of the...
Dates: 1790 - 1971

Columbus, General History

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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Pamphlet titled Pictures from the South's Oldest Industrial City (1920s); itinerary of trip from Dawson to Columbus and on to Goat Rock Dam, Bartlett's Ferry and the Georgia-Auburn Game (November 6-7, 1925); a photograph of Mrs. Clifford B. Grimes; newspaper clippings (1890s, 1920s); list of members of the Ladies' Memorial Association, Columbus, Georgia (n.d.).

Dates: 1790 - 1971

Fifteenth Amendment Notice of Ratification, 1870 February 2

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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This is the official notice ofGeorgia's ratification, signed by Governor Rufus Bullock and sent to the governor ofNevada(February 2, 1870). The document was a gift to theColumbusMuseumby LeGrand Elebash, Jr.

Dates: Other: 1870 February 2

Diary of W. T. Godard, 1881 - 1885

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents This transcript of the diary covers from June 7th, 1881 through November, 1885. William Thomas Godard (1838-1908) was a farmer, Confederate soldier and Primitive Baptist preacher. In addition to the diary, there are transcripts of two lengthy letters from 1885 relating to church matters, and a list of accounts with W. H. Head of Milner, in Pike County,Georgia (1881-1885). There is also a letter from Mary Godard concerning the donation of these transcripts to theColumbusMuseum, and mentioning...
Dates: Other: 1881 - 1885