Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

The Georgia Tribune, Vol. 15. No. 34, Christmas Edition, 1947

Real estate accounts of the company, which apparently leased downtown office space to other businesses. Includes accounts on rents and building maintenance recording company receipts and disbursements, citing names of tenants.

Letter from a Confederate prisoner of war at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, who had served as lieutenant in Company C of the 44th Infantry Regiment, Georgia Volunteers.

The collection includes executive letters from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, and correspondence about World War I.

Letters to Hutchins from various Georgia and southeastern places concerning legal matters, mainly debt collection. A few of the letters appear to be addressed to other family members. The second folder holds lists of slaves owned by different families and also letters that appear to be related to Hutchins' work.

This collection of the Mitchell family of Thomas County, Georgia, family papers includes the Mitchell letters, plantation accounts, and the business records of cotton and tobacco selling and shipping. Most correspondence is to Nathaniel Mitchell from his children and their spouses.

This printed volume, created for 1852, was intended for the use of doctors visiting patients, with spaces for numbers of visits, complaints, treatments, fees, etc. It seems to have been used during the Civil War when Captain Walker served as assistant surgeon with the 44th Regiment GA Vols. The pages are filled with lists of sick call, wounded and dead, and furloughs granted. No dates or places are specified.

These are the official records of the local chapter: organizational records, minutes, fiscal records, correspondence, publications and publicity, conference and workshop records, and committee/task force records.

This is a magazine - publication issued every two months and features the department's activities in restoring and maintaining the natural resources of the Georgia coastal area and the department's employees who are engaged in those activities.

These files include: (1) reports, (2) studies, (3) research material, (4) contract agreements, and (5) related correspondence dealing with the many legal matters with which the Department of Natural Resources is involved. Among these are: (1) reviewing and executing contracts, (2) holding hearings on personnel matters, (3) providing liaison with the State Attorney General's Office, and (4) providing legal consultation services to all divisions of the department.

NATURAL RESOURCES - FORESTRY - WPA REAL PROPERTY SURVEYS OF GREATER ATLANTA - January 1939. Sections A - D, Mortgage Status Maps, Sanitary Facilities Maps, Condition of Residence Structures, Area 1 Including Chamblee, Area 2 Including Avondale Estates and Decatur Area 3 Including East Point, College Park and Hapeville, Area 4 Including city of Atlanta Identification Maps: Hapeville, Avondale, Chamblee, Decatur, East Point, College Park

These are very similar to any agency's news releases in that they keep the public informed as to the official activities of the agency. There are very few of these news releases.

These publications were produced by the Department of Natural Resources. They deal with material of a professional nature rather than that of an administrative nature which R.G. 86, S.G. 2, Series 4 contains. For similar publications produced by the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology please see RG 50, Series 28.

This collection includes Gum Processors Association Records, American Turpentine Farmers Association Records, and correspondence, speeches, drawings, photograhs, and publications related to the Newton Naval Stores, Columbia Naval Stores, the Glidden Company, and the R.D. Cole Manufacturing Company. Drawn from three separate accessions, these papers document the economic, scientific, and social aspects of the naval stores area.

The minute books of this Polk County, Georgia, church also include membership lists, articles of faith, the church constitution, and rules of decorum.

A history of New Homemakers by Daisy L. Lewis of Fort Valley State College (1982). Georgia Association New Homemakers of America NHA News, three issues of the Chatterbox (national publication), and state programs.

Indexed letter book (1871-1873) used in legal practice. A second, mostly empty, volume (n.d.) contains letters signed by Z. D. Harrison of Harrison and Peeples.

The letters were written to his parents and cover 1862 - 1864. The diary runs from March - September 1864. Both give detailed accounts of daily life from the soldier's point of view. The longest letter, July 4, 1862, describes the Battle of Cold Harbor.

The journal was kept during Reconstruction by this highly educated judge who commented on politics, local to international; reading; travels through north Georgia to various county seats; and the seasons and weather. Although he eschewed the personal, he made many comments about individuals, including aspiring African-American politicians, such as Ulysses L. Houston (pp. 232-233). Also included are 158 pages of Marietta shop accounts (1848-1849).

Mostly the original records, including minutes, treasuer's account books, and critic's reports books, of the Decora Palaestra Literary Society at the college from around the turn of the century. Some modern material.

Records include "The Pinnacle" church bulletins, newspaper clippings, a report that includes plans for the "Operation Touch" clinic, a press release, a clinic schedule, dental information, and statistics of the results, which included screening exams and doctor visits. There are also three colored photographs of Rosalyn Carter, who was chairwoman of the project and officially opened the clinic.

Record of receipts and disbursements of the Ocklocknee (also spelled Okloknee, Oklonee, Ochlochnee, etc.) Grange, 1873 - 1881, kept by William J. Dickey, treasurer. Records of payments of initiation fees give the names of some of the members. Pages 28 - 35 are a record of receipts and disbursements of Bethpage Sunday School, 1881 - 1902, for which Dickey was also treasurer.