Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

License granted by the Georgia State Board for the Examination and Registration of Architects.

This collection includes marriage licenses obtained from county clerks and given to Reverend Rush. Most are from Talbot County, Georgia with others from Columbia, Marion, and Meriwether Counties, Georgia, and some Alabama marriage licenses. Most give no indication that a marriage ever took place. Few appear in official county records. An alphabetical list of grooms is filed with the volume.

This collection includes an account of cash received for stage fare from Augusta (Richmond County) Georgia, to Savannah (Chatham County, Georgia) and Savannah to Augusta. Lists date, by whom recieved, and amount. John B. Wilkinson served as Calffrey and Gaffney's mediator when business conflicts arose.

The collection contains scrapbooks about: the Atlanta Opera House; the DeGive family, owners of the opera house; and the opening of Gone with the Wind in Loews Grand Theatre, formerly the opera house. Photographs, newspaper clippings, and greeting cards are included. Some material is related to James R. Bramlett, stage manager at the building for forty years.

An 8 x 10 inch photograph of Lila Kennedy, President of Atlanta's First Theatre Group of Atlanta Civic Theatre. Photographed by Helen Burke, 1 Brookhaven Drive, NE, Atlanta

Speech given by Smith at the University of Florida. A humorous "letter" by one of Smith's campers at Laurel Falls Camp in Rabun County, Georgia. A six-page biography of Smith by her friend and life companion, Paula Snelling.

The item is apparently a draft of a report to the editor of the Mobile, Alabama, NEWS from a committee of judges for a contest of verses that commend Northerners for the contributions they had sent South during the epidemic of 1878. Lizzie, a poet herself and living in Burke County, Georgia, included a copy of the prize-winning poem by Maria L Eve of Augusta, Georgia, called "Conquered at Last. On the back at a later date is copied her own poem, "The Gypsy's Warning."

Courtship letters between Lois and Monroe before their marriage in 1929. One letter is from Lois' father, Clarence Hollis in Newnan, Georgia, to his future wife, Miss Tommie Jones in 1885.

The private journal (1857-1883) reflects Louisa's activities as hotel landlady and mother of three daughters. She also wrote about her husband's farm, her reading, the occupation of Marietta by Sherman's troops (1864), and travels to visit northern relatives (1865). A list of characters and an index are included.

The newspaper reported local people's activities in this Clayton County, Georgia, community and carried some serialized publications.

Grants and deeds for a part of Lowndes County, Georgia, that was originally Irwin County, Georgia. Names on the documents include: Wisenbaker, Solomon Newsom, Boyd, Delamar Clayton, John Hughes, Charles Latimer, Robert Stafford, and William Trescott. Many are connected to the Wisenbaker family.

A letter from the Treasury Dept., C.S.A., that accompanied {dollar}48.03, "which is for the payment of your deceased husband, Thomas Adkins, for his service as a private in Capt. Hill's Co. M, 1st GA Regulars."

Primarily photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills, and ephemera concerning the work of Vollmer, an Atlanta playwright, formerly of North Carolina and later New York, whose plays concerning North Carolina mountain life were performed nationally and internationally beginning in 1923. Most well-known were SUNUP and THE SHAME WOMAN. Vollmer also wrote a radio series produced from 1930-1937. There is one 1955 letter from Elizabeth Brown (Brownie), who she lived with for 25 years.

Letters on courting, family relations, health, fashion, death, and crops by all three families and their relatives, who lived in Taliaferro, Emanuel, and Treutlen Counties, Georgia. Most of the letters are by Alex Lunceford, Leila Lunceford Chapman, and Leo F. Chapman. One letter (1909) from Soperton, Georgia, contains an account of a lynching. Also included are picture post cards of Georgia towns, two photographs, handwritten poems, and pages from an autograph album (1900).

This collection includes a record book containing minutes and other records; an autobiography of W. W. Willingham; the M. A. Chandler church book; and some Tocoa Methodist Church membership lists.

The note was written in Savannah, November 1, 1783.

Includes material on Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College and the Georgia Normal and Industrial College (Milledgeville); many legal cases, business papers, and a variety of pamphlets on legal practice, churches, and schools in Baldwin, Sumter, Bibb, and other Georgia counties; and Charles Peter Crawford family material. The account books have been cataloged separately under the titles that appear on the last page of the inventory.

This collection includes vouchers written at Macon office for personnel boarding, rail repairs, and livestock killed by the railroad.

Record of general merchandise sold in this Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, store, citing date, name of account, goods purchased, and cost. Following these entries are lists of some Crawford County Inferior and Superior Court cases, 1836 - 1842.

A certificate of competency to teach issued to Miss M. E. Anderson by the Walton County Board of Education, 1863. A description of support given by Madison women during the Civil War. G. M. Dexter's letter (1900) of thanks for a painting of the Confederate flag presented to him by the Madison Garden Club. And an 1832 letter by Sara Dixon to Mrs. Anderson who is writing a history of Morgan County, Georgia.

A record of boarding, lodging, livery services, and accounts at this Morgan County, Georgia, hotel, citing name, date, and cost.

Georgia State Board of Pharmacy license, 1943. Two photographs of Mae, one (1933) with her son.

Georgia State Board of Pharmacy license, 1943. Two photographs of Mae, one (1933) with her son.

Contains genealogical research of Lula Mahan (Mrs. Robert E.) Adair. Collection includes typescripts of Virginia county records by Mrs. N. E. Clement, genealogist, and others, letters from the United States Bureau of Pensions, compositions by Mrs. Adair, an autobiographical piece by Dr. Robert E. Adair, letters from other family members, and photographs of Lulu's trip to see Virginia relatives, ca. 1925.