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Collection
Identifier: MC 164
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a copy of a manuscript prepared by Dolores Autry documenting the graves in Linwood Cemetery. The manuscript documents each section of the cemetery and records the graves of those buried within. Relying on sexton records, newspapers, and published histories, Mrs. Autry provides information on some of those people buried there. The manuscript is also indexed.N.B. Further information on Linwood Cemetery and other cemeteries in the area may be found in...
Dates:
1994
Collection
Identifier: MC 50
Scope and Contents
Half of this collection consists of the writings and research of Dr. A. Elizabeth Taylor on the subject of Woman Suffrage. The other half of the collection documents her interests and her family involvements in the social life of Columbus, Georgia, including the Marguerite Garden Club of which her mother was a member, the Ivy Garden Club, the Mardi Gras and Heritage balls supported by her brother and his wife.There is also a collection of deeds dating from 1839 that show the...
Dates:
1839-1995
Collection
Identifier: MC 70
Scope and Contents
This collection was found in a house in Hamilton, Georgia and includes correspondence (approximately 80 items), medical books, pamphlets and bulletins (21 items), clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous diplomas, etc. of a chiropractor.
Dates:
1903-1976; Other: Date materials were donated
Collection
Identifier: MC 296
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 36 boxes of textual material, two boxes of artifacts (including the Dictaphone machine used in her therapy sessions and other items including the two phonograph albums, framed photos and other personal material/ and a box of slides and VHS tapes. In addition to this material, Carson McCullers’ personal library from her home at 131 South Broadway in Nyack, New York was part of Dr. Mercer’s bequest to the Columbus State University Archives, and is separately housed...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1954 - 2012
Collection
Identifier: MC 209
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of material about Dr. Augustus B. Dudley of Columbus, Georgia and his family.
Dates:
1930s-1978
Collection
Identifier: MC 400
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of personal correspondence, invitations, and a deed of gift to Fannie Duffie and various Duffie family members including John L. Duffie, Henrietta A. Duffie, and her daughter, Charles A. Duffie. Note: the last name is spelled Duffie and Duffee throughout the collection.
Dates:
1850s-1889
Collection
Identifier: MC 285
Scope and Contents
This collection contains press materials relating to the death and funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. There are two series in the collection. Series 1 is magazines that cover Churchill and range from 1948-1965. Series 2 is newspapers also covering Churchill's death and funeral and range from 1964-1978.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948 - 1978
Collection
Identifier: MC 13
Scope and Contents
It is important to note that the survival of the various types of documentation across the nearly 140 years of its existence is very uneven. There are large gaps in each of the series. T he minutes of the Board of Directors, for example, is virtually complete for the period from 1898 through 1947 and virtually non-existent for the period before that. The same disparity holds true for most of the other series. There has been significant physical damage to many of records, especially the...
Dates:
1850s - 1970s
Collection
Identifier: MC 334
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of annual reports and charters of various interrelated railroad companies and an annual report of the American Railway Master Mechanics Association.
Dates:
1879-1889
Collection
Identifier: MC 3
Scope and Contents
Murphy's collection includes copies of his writings about John S. Pemberton and the origins of Coca-Cola, a Civil War Fort in Phenix City, and a brief history of Columbus; his daughter's Civil War map of Columbus and Phenix City; and information about the death of his grandfather, Matt Murphy, a Columbus Marshall in 1874.
Dates:
1874 - 1984
