Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

A. J. wrote to his son, S. C., that he wanted him home: "Donot Be afervill. all of your Company is at home and they say that they intend to stay ther."

Collection contains mostly news clippings with a few architectural drawings.

Several compilations, part of a bound volume of notes, and loose papers created by cousins Mary Hill Ficklin and Ida May Hill Casey. The collection contains Pope as well as Wilkes County, Georgia, Hill genealogy. Some of the notes are on letterhead for the Gate City National Bank in Atlanta on the corner of Alabama and Pryor Streets. Lodowick J. Hill was president; A. W. Hill, vice-president.

Letters are from Graham to his sister, Mary Baxter Graham (Mrs. Hustis) Studstill in Brooks County, Georgia. One letter is by Mary.

Included in this series are letters, memoranda, reports, news releases and some pamphlets relating to the functional operation of the Animal Industry Division. This subject file served as a central reference repository for the above record types which originated in or accumulated within the Division.

This series consists of annual or biennial reports which summarize the accomplishments of the Department of Agriculture during the indicated time period and recommend future changes or programs. The various division chiefs and the commissioner include reports of their respective areas of responsibility.

Apparently, the Markets Commodity Promotion Division transmits copies of all its papers to the Commissioner for his perusal. Consequently, these files document the activities of the various commodity commissions in Georgia. Documents included in this series are: minutes of commission meetings; marketing and warehouse storage contracts initiated by the commissions; marketing orders stipulating product affected and scope; and correspondence related to commission activities.

This series contains records relating to all areas of interest to the Assistant Commissioner in charge of Consumer Protection. Included are: correspondence discussing proposed legislation, policy, methods and procedures for implementing programs of food quality control, fuel and weights and measures; memorandums; forms; pamphlets; and legal documents.

Series consists of description of expenditures on hotels, meals, railroad fare, gas, oil, and automobile repair for L.H. Glenn, State Oil Inspector.

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, publications and other records which document the two-fold functions of the Division: supervising and regulating the fuel suppliers in Georgia; and inspecting all weighing and measuring devices in the State. The records further document the close interaction between the Division and others in the Department of Agriculture and other government agencies.

These published bulletins show the department's involvement in every phase of agriculture, from the preparation of the soil to the marketing of the products and animals. Many of the bulletins document laws and regulations applicable to agricultural products.

These bulletins were published in newspaper format once a week. The content often takes the form of advertisements offering to buy or sell agricultural labor, equipment, livestock, seed, plants, game, poultry, handicrafts, hay, feed, grain, and other agricultural products. Other subjects included are advice on when to plant certain crops, various federal programs available to farmers and strike news.

These statistical reports indicate the volume of fertilizers of various formulas utilized by farmers in all of Georgia's 159 counties. The frequency of publication of these reports varies over the years. In the earlier years reports were issued twice a year, but beginning in 1962, monthly reports were published while the semi-annual total reports were continued.

These single-page mimeographed market reports published by the Department's Market News Service indicate the Georgia f.o.b. dock quoted prices and the supply of broilers and fryers and the estimated volume of slaughter for the day or week. Often two days' reports are issued on one page. At least once a week a note is included on the Arkansas poultry market as well.

This series consists of a 16 mm, single-reel film promoting the Georgia State Farmers Market in Forest Park, Georgia.

Consists of indices to DDT spray program maps on index cards. Details houses and house numbers.

The collection includes records related to Albert Cash's military career and include his World War I Honorable Discharge; Civilian Conservation Corps Honorable Discharge; and various certificates from the World War II Auxiliary Military Police.

Correspondence and newspaper clippings of Guerry that endorse his work and document his painting commissions and exhibitions.

The collection includes correspondence, accounts and records, bank statements, plats, assets, trust deeds and appointments, lists of properties, securities and collaterals, powers of attorneys, wills, and other paper's connected with Hitz's work. George E. Merrick, Coral Gables Corporation, and Belleair Estates, Inc., are a few of those he represented.

Letters written from Washington, DC, and Crawfordsville, Taliaferro Co., GA, to "Dear Sister," Mrs. Sarah Stephens of Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia, about family business and the death of cousin Sabra, who smoked a pipe in the kitchen.

Tax receipts and other business records in Coweta County, Georgia. Also, a masonic lodge record of Joel C. Broadnax from the Golden Fleece Lodge, #6; a receipt from R. D. Cole, Newnan, Georgia, for Mrs. Broadnax, 1873; and an estate record for Vivian Broadnax Pope, administered in 1908 by Alexander Pope. There is also a Lee/Slivender Florida land indenture dated 1875.

Tissue letter book contains Alfred's private correspondence during his first two years as governor. Inventory includes letter abstracts. Colquitt's official correspondence as governor is in Record Group 1-1-5.

Letters, musical scores, publicity, and photographs of a well-known Atlanta musical family, collected by the eldest daughter, Louise. Her great aunt Adelina Patti's numerous letters and photographs appear here also. Photographs and genealogy of Mrs. Barili's Vezin and Hasenclever relatives are in Series Three and Five.