Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Official records of the organization: minutes, annual reports, correspondence, fiscal records, project records, publicity materials, and scrapbooks. 1960s and 1970s papers document integration in Atlanta and the second wave of feminism among the members. Two Branch projects, the annual Bookfair that raises scholarship money and a book, GEORGIA WOMEN, for school children, produced many of the valuable records.

Includes a general cash book, 1910 - 1920; premiums cash book, 1911 - 1913; one volume of cashed-in stock certificates; and a ledger of 1912 receipts and disbursements.

Correspondence and notes relating to the Boyd, McCord, and other Georgia families. Papers reveal religious and racial attitudes of their era as well as genealogical research. Specific examples of attitudes given include African American, Jewish, and Roman Catholic research.

Papers include letters, resolutions, and essays to and from family members. Most concern Civil War memorial organizations, ceremonies, and memorabilia.

Petition by the citizens of Athens to change the county seat of Clarke County, Georgia, from Watkinsville to Athens.

Drawings of structural, right-of-way, and proposed plans of depots, spur tracks, shops, and yards for the Atlanta and West Point Rail Road and the Western Railway of Alabama.

Minutes of normal school classes held for teachers as part of their continuing education program. Includes one volume of an African-American summer normal school. Also printed Coca-Cola blotters.

Series consists of a ten minute video titled "Transportation Solutions for a New Century"

Theatre contract for Sarah Bernhardt to perform at the de Give Opera House (later the Loews Theatre). Also a Habersham Players (Atlanta) program for AS YOU LIKE IT.

Minutes, membership lists (including Peggy Mitchell Upshaw), correspondence, financial records, scrapbooks (1939 - 1971), and newspaper clippings.

Record of general merchandise sold (daybook, 1826) and bought (invoice book, 1825 - 1826). Inserted in the daybook are several bound pages recording goods bought from H. Sayre and Company. Most of the goods in the invoices were bought from Jacob P. Turner and Company.

This series consists of the printed copies (generally pamphlets) containing: employee salaries; disbursements; monthly balances; debit; and credit listings of state agencies, boards and commissions by year from 1925 to 1969. Beginning with 1970, University System and Public School System audit reports are included within this series. The information contained in these later records is generally the same as stated above.

This series contains audit report files for State highway grant monies received by counties and or municipalities for construction and maintenance of roads, streets and bridges within the various towns and cities of Georgia.

Series consists of correspondence of the state auditor.

Series consists of volume containing "auditor's certificates".

Series consists of two volumes, one titled "Auditor's Certificates & Certificates for State Troops Bounty" and another only titled "Ledger".

Series consists of 1965 report on property valuation in the state of Georgia.

These Sales Ratio Study Computation Sheets contain computation factors used in a study undertaken to establish and maintain an equalized, adjusted, annual school property tax digest for each county and independent city school system in Georgia and for the state as a whole. Also included on the sheets are assessment data from the previous year's county tax digest, the adjusted 100% digest computations, the 100% value of public utility property and the total 100% adjusted county digest.

This series contains the final sales ratio study in computer printout form which was sent to and approved by each county and independent city school system in Georgia. These studies, often referred to as black binders, show summary calculations, previous owner, current owner, location of real property, type of property (residential, commercial, industrial or farm), selling price and county assessment or property ratio.

Letter to Mason's mother, Mrs. Tamar Mason, in Buckeye, Georgia, January 4, inquiring about the effects of Sherman's march to the sea. Benjamin, stationed at Camp Rescue, Macon, Georgia, could get a furlough from the 6th Regiment Georgia Militia Company G, if their farm had been destroyed.

Record of daily merchandise sold, citing name of account, goods purchased, and cost. The top of each page bears the heading "Bachalors Retreat."

This series consists of one loose-leaf notebook containing abstracts of ordinances passed by the City Council. These abstracts are general summaries of the ordinances. Information presented in these includes the inclusive dates, as reflected in the Minute Books, in which these ordinances were approved, a summary of their contents and the number of the page in which they were recorded in the bound volumes found in RGSGSERIES 105-20-51, City Council Ordinances.

This series consists of unbound business stubs, which document the name and kind of businesses located in Milledgeville for the dates listed. Information presented in these stubs includes: (1) the name of the owner; (2) the name or type of business; (3) the dates for which the license was in force; (4) the date license was issued and its cost, and (5) the number of the license.

Cash books document the amount of money the payer spent and to whom and when it was spent and is thus the same as an account book. The volumes comprising this series serve this purpose for the City of Milledgeville. Information in these volumes includes: (1) the name of the recipient of payment; (2) an enumeration of the amount involved; (3) specifications for the purpose of the transaction, and (4) date of payment.

This census documents the names of the residents of Milledgeville and other related information for the date listed. Information presented includes the name, age, skin color and residence of each entry.

This series consists of bound volumes whose information documents the payments by the City Clerk to the individuals on the payroll of the City of Milledgeville. The information includes the amount paid to each individual and the date of payment but does not often specify the reason for the payment.

This series consists of bound volumes that provide documentation of the ordinances of the Milledgeville City Council for the dates listed. These ordinances deal exclusively with the regulation of spirituous liquors. The information presented in these volumes includes the ordinances, their dates of approval by the City Council, and the signatures of the Mayor and members of the City Council.

The bound volume comprising this series documents the amount of tax the City Clerk collected on the Cotton Warehouse Tax for each year and contains other information that includes: (1) name of owner; (2) owner's county of residence; (3) brand or mark of owner; (4) cotton bale number; (5) weight of cotton bale, and (6) amount of tax.