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Identifier: V.F.
Dates:
Other: 1830 - 2021
Collection
Identifier: MC 413
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the research and source material for Virginia Causey's 2019 book, Red Clay, White Water and Blues: A History of Columbus, Georgia as well as for her various courses and publications throughout her career. Topics include Native American history, local and regional history, school desegregation, and labor history of Georgia.The Collection is organized in the following series:Series 1: Red Clay, White Water and Blues
Series 2: Muscogee County...
Dates:
1800 - 2018
Collection
Identifier: MC 23
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Dr. Carr's research materials for her biography of Carson McCullers. Besides photocopies of over 200 letters, telegrams and postcards of Carson McCullers, it includes newspaper clippings of reviews of the biography, and miscellaneous items about Carson McCullers, including her obituary from the Times of London, and a copy of the original script of Member of the Wedding, given to her by Mary Rogers. An inventory of the correspondence is included in the box.
Dates:
1940 - 1979
Collection
Identifier: MC 33
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of two parts: items donated by his daughter, Mrs. Lenora Woodall Nilan, and material found in an old building in Columbus. Mrs. Nilan donated all of her father's scrapbooks and clippings, primarily his “Our Town” columns, 1963-1971. (An index to these can be found in the T. J. Peddy Collection, MC 36). The earliest Woodall scrapbooks include articles from 1906 and a picture of a lynching in Knoxville,Georgia. Also included is the account book of the Hatcher-McGehee...
Dates:
1880 - 1970
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Tucker. It covers their careers with Columbus, Georgia journalism, as well as their involvement in social, educational and philanthropic issues.
1732-2006 2 boxes (5 l.f.)
Dates:
1732-2006
Collection
Identifier: MC 398
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of personal letters, photographs, and memorabilia belonging to Marion “Butch” Page while he attended college at the University of Georgia and served in the U.S. Army from 1941-1946. Also included is a complete manuscript of The Lonely Hunter, a biography of Carson McCullers by Virginia Carr.
Dates:
1929-1946
Collection
Identifier: MC 21
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence concerning the disposition of those papers of W. O. Tuggle which were not deposited with the U.S. government after his expeditions among the Creeks and Yuchi in the 1880s, as well as materials generated during the publication of a journal article and a monograph, Shem, Ham & Japheth: the papers of W. O. Tuggle, comprising his Indian Diary, sketches & observations, myths & Washington Journal in the territory & at the Capital, 1879, both...
Dates:
1879 - 1969
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one folder of correspondence between Fielder and several people identified only as Harry, Mac and Bill. Rival brick companies run by Hale Bickerstaff and the Heard family are mentioned.
1929-1937 1 box (.3 l.f.)
Dates:
1929-1937
Collection
Identifier: MC 54
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, telegraphs, and documents of the Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co. dated 1887-1888, & 1894. According to some accounts, at a point in time the Columbus Fire Department, after inspecting the attic of the Eagle & Phenix office building on Front Avenue, ordered the company to dispose of records stored in that location. Apparently the firm put the records on the street for the trash collectors and people simply took portions of the records. That...
Dates:
1886-1894; Other: Date materials were donated
Collection
Identifier: MC 173
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises the work of the Smithsonian River Basin Survey conducted on the Chattahoochee River which was begun in 1958. The collection consists of seven reels of microfilm detailing archaeological resources in the area that would be flooded upon the completion of the Columbia, Walter F. George, and Oliver dams. The survey includes Lee, Russell, Barbour, Henry, and Houston counties in Alabama and Muscogee, Stewart, Chattahoochee, Quitman, and Clay counties in Georgia.
Dates:
c. 1958
