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Soroptimist Club of Columbus, Georgia Scrapbook Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 135

Dates: 1967 - 1999

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Southern Black Oral History Project

Collection

Identifier: MC 265

Scope and Contents

The Southern Black Oral History Project consists of two boxes of 24 folders of interviews and tapes collected by students in an African American Literature class under the direction of Dr. Noreen Lape.

2007 2 boxes (.6 l.f.)

Dates: 2007

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Spanish-American War Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: MC 342

Scope and Contents This flyleaf of this scrapbook says, "Leo P. Swift. Books of pictures that were in the different papers after the blowing up of the battleship Maine, February 15-1898"The contents of the book consist of numerous newspaper and magazine clippings recounting the sinking of the battle ship Maine in the harbor of Havana, Cuba and the ensuing war between the United States and Spain. The clippings are mounted in an unused check ledger from the account of J. C. McClay on the Exchange of Apalachicola...

Dates: 1898

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Spencer Southeastern Map Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 136

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 17 rare maps of Georgia dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Dates: 1747 - 1898

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

St. Francis Hospital Auxiliary

Collection

Identifier: MC 410

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 62 scrapbooks of the St. Francis Auxiliary from the years 1958 to 2016, covering the Mardi Gras balls, the workings of the Auxiliary and the Pink Ladies. Other assorted items are stored in Box 1. Boxes 2-6 house assorted items of Mardi Gras regalia-crowns, robe, masks, flags.

Dates: 1958 - 2014

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Stirling Price Gilbert Papers

Collection

Identifier: MC 7

Scope and Contents This collection includes his published autobiography, A Georgia Lawyer, His Observations and Public Service, now held in the Archives reference collection; a manuscript (circa 1948), diplomas of family members (4 items, 1853-1911); the Supreme Court of Georgia Memorial to Justice Stirling Price Gilbert (February 13, 1952); and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1884-1946), many of which deal with his actions on the bench. His autobiography deals with his father, a country doctor in...

Dates: 1884 - 1952; 1853

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Superball: Girls Softball Classic of 1995

Collection

Identifier: Mc 229

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photo albums of events leading up to the games, the games themselves and articles about the USA Team leading up to the 1996 Olympic Games in Columbus, Georgia.

Dates: 1995

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections

Swift Family Bible

Collection

Identifier: MC 257

Scope and Contents

This is the family bible of the George Parker Swift, Jr. branch of the family. It includes Family History pages, between the Old and New Testaments, containing information on the marriages, births and deaths of numerous Swift family members.

1874 1 box (.3 l.f.)

Dates: 1874

Found in: Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections