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The Frances Tucker Collection consists of two boxes of materials, folders and scrapbooks. Box 1 contains 7 folders of material pertaining to Columbus High School which Ms. Tucker attended from 1947-1953. Included in these scrapbooks are clippings from the school newspapers, graduation exercises and personal clippings. Three scrapbooks in this box are memory books from the same high school years of 1950-1953. There are 9 issues of Muscogiana, the genealogy society magazine of Muscogee County,...
Dates:
1890s; 1940s-1950s
Collection
Identifier: MC 19
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The collection consists of correspondence, biographical works about Ticknor, manuscripts and typescripts of some of his poems, a bound typescript of Ticknor letters from December 18, 1839 to January 17, 1870 collected by M. T. Furlow, 18 letters of the Cutliff family (1898-1953), a copy of The Poems of Francis Orray Ticknor edited by Michelle Cutliff Ticknor, and a typescript copy of Sarah Anne Cheney's 1934 Duke University MA thesis on Francis Orray Ticknor.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1839 - 1953
Collection
Identifier: MC 25
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The Schnell collection reflects his interests in the Chattahoochee River, local industry, the U. S. Bicentennial and his own family history, which includes the Eelbeck, Johnson, and George families, in addition to the Schnells. These materials include a group of 17 Civil War letters written by John T. Johnson, three of which have been transcribed. He was very active in the Columbus Area Bicentennial Committee from 1973 through 1976. This committee planned and executed a series of...
Dates:
1836 - 1980
Collection
Identifier: MC 16
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This material documents the histories of the two organizations which, in effect, merged in the 1920s. Both ceased operations around the same time in the mid-1960s.
Dates:
1895 - 1941
Collection
Identifier: MC 397
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This collections contains scrapbooks of G. Gunby Jordan, school notebooks from Yale University, telegram scrapbook belonging to Helen Swift Jordan while in college, and the manuscript and correspondence relating to the publication of Caddies, the book by G. Gunby Jordan, II.
Dates:
1900-1989
Collection
Identifier: MC 12
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The papers contains correspondence and published reports about his business concerns, including the Columbus Railroad Company, Columbus Savings Bank, the Third National Bank, the Perkins Hosiery Mills, Bibb Manufacturing, Columbus Manufacturing, Columbus Power Company, Eagle & Phenix Mills and the General Fire Extinguisher Company. Other material relates to his campaign for County Commission; his activities on the commission, especially his advocacy of paved roads (1920s); his service...
Dates:
1884 - 1939
Collection
Identifier: MC 433
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This collection consists of three boxes of information about the quilt guild. Monthly newsletters from the beginning in 1986, minutes, agendas, quilt patterns, quilting hints and techniques, care of quilts, photographs, and blocks of the month are included.
Dates:
1986-2011
Collection
Identifier: MC 150
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This collection consists of books and other publications relating to current events and to literature.
Dates:
1894 - 1944
Collection
Identifier: MC 48
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This collection consists of genealogical research, chiefly on the Joseph Simpson Garrett family of Columbus, Georgia. Joseph S. Garrett (1831-1923), a Columbus merchant, was the original owner of the Garrett-Bullock-DeLay House in Columbus. Other families included in this genealogical collection include: Blanton, Curley, Hopkins, McClendon, MacFarlane, Matthews, Ware, and Young. This collection also includes correspondence, typescripts, and newspaper clippings. These materials were created...
Dates:
1965-1990
Collection
Identifier: MC 268
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This collection consists of a full set of the plays of William Shakespeare published by the Limited Editions company of New York. This is set 40 of 1950. They are cataloged in the CSU library on-line system, but are held in the special collections area of the CSU archives. 1940 37 volumes (3 l.f.)
Dates:
1940
