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Valley Reads - Carson McCullers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 179
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 1 box of materials, mostly newspaper clippings, pamphlets and assorted ephemera that traces Columbus’ celebration of Carson McCullers by reading her work The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Dates: 2002

Van Leonard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SMC 85
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a photocopy of a typescript of the Leonard family genealogy, a photocopy of Leonard-related pages of Our Children’s Ancestry by Sarah Cantey Whitaker Allen, published by the author in 1935 and the 1861 will of Van Leonard.

Dates: 1861-1935

Vertical Files

 Vertical Files
Identifier: V.F.

Virginia Causey Research Collection

 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

Virginia S. Carr Collection

 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

W. C. Woodall Collection

 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

W. Clifford and Daisy Tucker Collection

 File
Identifier: MC 251
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

W. E. Mathews Civil War Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: SMC 112
Scope and Contents This collection consists of copies of 2 of the 6 tablet Civil War memoirs written by W.E. Mathews. His “Memories of the War 1862-1865” provides a detailed account of the organization of the 33rd Alabama and unit activities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia and includes engagements at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and the defense of Atlanta. The heading of each manuscript is entitled “Partial Roster of the Dale County Grays or Company B 33rd Ala Regiment, Lowrey’s Brigade,...
Dates: 1882

W. Marion Page Collection

 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

W. O. Tuggle Collection

 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

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Petri, Marjorie Cargill 3
Thomas, Kenneth H., Jr. 3
Adalbelio, Garcia 2
Banks, Erma D., 1945- 2
Benning, Henry L. (Henry Lewis ), 1814-1875 2
Bullock, Bill (William J. ), 1943- 2
Causey , Virginia E. (Virginia Estes), 1853- 2
Chappell, Loretto Lamar, 1895-1987 2
Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System 2
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Dews, Carlos L.B. (Carlos Lee Barney), 1963- 2
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Gates, Sally (Sally Ansley Quillian), 1944- 2
Hudson , Sandra S. 2
Lloyd, Craig, 1940-1922 2
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McCullers, Carson Smith, 1917-1967 2
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Strub, Anne Cox 2
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W.C. Bradley Company 2
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American Association of University Women, Columbus Chapter 1
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Anderson, Paul A.C. 1
Atkins, Lois 1
Avary, James Floyd 1
Baldwin, Bobby 1
Baldwin, Claude 1
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Belcher, William R. 1
Bergquist, Beryl V. , 1949- 1
Bethel Baptist Church (Columbus, Georgia) 1
Bibb Manufacturing Company, Swift Textiles, Inc. 1
Biggers, Jr., Mrs. James J. W. 1
Black, Clara O'Keeffe 1
Blackmar, A.O. 1
Blackmon, Mary V. 1
Blackmon, Mary V. (Mary Virginia ) 1
Blasingame, Nell Moore 1
Block, Regina Satlof 1
Bradley, W.C. (William Clark), 1863-1947 1
Brinson, Cary O. , 1919-2003 1
Britto, Darby 1
Brooks, Francis Reich, 1914-2014 1
Brown , Mike 1
Brown, Gary L. 1
Browne, J. Rhodes (John Rhodes), 1819-1900 1
Buck , Tom B. , Representative , III (Thomas Bryant ), 1938-2020 1
Buck, Susan 1
Burgin, Helen , 1946- 1
Burnham, Otis B. 1
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Chattahoochee Indian Heritage Association 1
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Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998 1
Coffin, Stephanie 1
Colbert, Rick 1
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Columbus Broadcasting Company, Inc. (WRBL) 1
Comer, Laura Beecher, 1817-1900 1
Contrell, Kevin Thomas 1
Craig, Jon (Jon Robert), 1916-2010 1
Crooks, Ken 1
Daniell, Frank, Mrs. 1
Darby, Cecil A. , Jr. , 1924-2017 1
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Douglas, Robert 1
DuBose, Louise Jones, 1901-1985 1
Dudley , Augustus B. , Dr. 1
Ellis, Francis (Francis Huguenin), 1926-2003 1
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Fontaine, Francis, 1845-1901 1
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Fuller, Albert F., Jr. (Albert Frederick), 1919-1969 1
Fussell , Fred C. 1
George, Walter F. (Walter Franklin ), 1878-1957 1
Gibson, James 1
Gray, Kenny (Kennith ) 1
Hallock, Myriam Lahaurine Johnston 1
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