Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Collection includes scrapbooks, their publication FLASHLIGHTS, minutes, committee reports, correspondence, and financial and membership records. About five boxes contain their national publication and its successor, INDEPENDENT WOMAN and NATIONAL BUSINESS WOMAN, 1929-1972.

Minutes; correspondence; officers, committees, and local chapter reports; fiscal records; their publication, GEORGIANA; and organizational records.

The records document club activities.

The scrapbooks document club activities.

The records document club activities.

The majority of letters in this collection are authored by John C. Butner to his father while he was in service, with two letters by his brothers. Earlier documents relate to relatives and business in Stokes County, North Carolina, and Cobb County, Georgia. There is one 1887 letter from John's son, William E., who was attending school in Atlanta and mentioned DeGive's Opera House, the Kimball House, and an operation on a two-headed man.

Hammack wrote his father, describing the countryside around Camp McCulloch, 200 miles west of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was doing business under Dr. Massie(?) "for General Pike's Brigade."

Accounting record of the firms Bell and Williamson and Crawford and Williamson. Names of accounts, services, and fees are recorded.

Includes 1863 list of enslaved people and year end settlements with them; 1868 farm accounting narrative entries and other narratives about farming plans, the Masonic Templar's Pledge, and temperance; and other entries and notes about legal cases handled by Crawford, probably in Baldwin County, Georgia.

These are letters and invoices from various Atlanta manufacturers and stores concerning goods for the hardware company. Many of the letterheads are engravings of the businesses.

These are the records of the administration of a large estate established by steel magnate Thomas Morrison Carnegie, Sr., and his wife, Lucy Coleman. They include letters, letterbooks, account books, loose financial papers, legal documents, banking records, maps, architectural drawings, photographs, invoices, insurance certificates, and publications.

The Civil War letters run from 1864 - 1865 and discuss William's camp life outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the Battle of Nashville, and the success of an African American regiment. Other letters are mostly incoming from family members in other states, including the Hammontree family, W. M. Phillips of Arkansas, and W. U. Griffith.

The collection includes various copies of an account by Catherine Huey, a white woman, of the execution of Henry Jackson, an enslaved man owned by William Jackson, in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, on November 3, 1858. The actual date of the written accounts is unknown. It was apparently intended for publication.

Records of general contractors and builders who supplied lumber, mouldings, shingles, rails, store fronts, and furniture for public spaces. One folder is correspondence with the Columbian Iron Works of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who supplied the company with a sawmill.

The volume contains a list of 142 men who purchased shares in the fair. Most of the book is empty.

World War I and other papers of Moran, including records of awards and honors.

The collection includes business papers pertaining to Thigpen's many ventures (he was a railroad agent, automobile dealer, and a parter with L.C. Thigpen and Company), including his work as Washington County Ordinary. Personal papers are from family and friends or are personal business (banking, insurance, etc.). Included is Senator Thomas Hardwick's correspondence regarding the 1918 senatorial election. Also references to World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic.

The book is a record of men examined for service in the Confederate army, citing date, name, place of birth, age, profession, and remarks. Many of latter state "capable of bearing arms;" others are brief descriptions of medical conditions.

Letters from Ross, a Confederate soldier in 2nd Battalion Georgia Volunteers, Company C, serving in Petersburg and Norfolk, Virginia, to his sister Ella C. Ross.

"Form of the estimate and assessment of agricultural products...to lay taxes for the common defence and carry on the government of the Confederate States," showing amounts of wheat, corn, cured fodder, and wool raised by Col. C. M. Jones.

Photographs from Judge Worrill's early life in the 13th Regt. U.S. Cavalry, Fort Riley, KS, and from his judicial career, 1931-ca. 1958, in the Pataula Judicial Circuit, the Georgia State Court of Appeals, and on the Georgia Supreme Court. Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1926-1953. Incoming letters, 1960-1972, to Worrill in a Virginia nursing home from many old acquaintances, such as Herman E. Talmadge, Marvin Griffin, George C. Wallace, and lesser-known figures.

The book is composed of dated chemistry lectures (numbered 9-44) on various subjects. Pages 1-17 (and lectures 1-8) of this probable copybook are missing. The last eight pages are filled with copied verses from such poets as Byron.

The minute book begins with the reorganization of the Board until long after property was sold to the state. It appears that they were managing the second building, which had been used as a masonic lodge as well as a primary school.

This collection includes genealogy, correspondence, business papers, estate records, and photographs of the family. Much of the correspondence is to daughter Sallie W. Cheshire from aspiring but unsuccessful suitors. A large number of photographs are of the Cheshire/Mayson/Todd families.

Contains incoming letters from Gilson and Orr cousins in Alabama and Mississippi and from Christopher's sister and brother-in-law, Martha E. Orr (b. 1828) and Andrew J. Stallings, newly-weds in Walton County, Georgia. Christopher Orr's Newnan Seminary (Coweta County, Georgia) speeches and records are included. One letter is from Sarah E. Strickland in Rose Bower, Georgia, to an unknown Jane. The last item is an unsigned, typed biography of Orr.

Records of a project carried out by various chapters of the Daughter of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) in which they surveyed Georgia county churches to see what records might be available for microfilming. Also includes carbons of Georgia Archives' follow-up correspondence with churches. Counties include Bibb, Butts, Clarke, Clay, Columbia, Emanuel, Fulton, Jenkins, Muscogee, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Richmond, Turner, and Twiggs.

The scrapbook was apparently the winner in a history contest for freshmen and sophomores at Teachers College in Athens, Georgia. It was found in the papers of Moina Michael, who is featured in the scrapbook.

Daily accounts for sales of lodging, board, drinks, livery services, and some general merchandise. Cites date, name of account, type of purchase, and cost. The back of the 1831 - 1832 volume contains some listings of merchandise and of subscribers to the Washington (Wilkes County, Georgia) Ball and Party. Probably Hancock County, Georgia.

These deeds from Cobb, Campbell, Fulton, and Washington Counties document land transactions between the Barge, Peacock, Maxwell, Love MConnell, Queen, Beavers, and Glore families. Most are recorded in Cobb County or not at all.

Letter from Thomas to his wife, July 10, 1862. A four-page Colclough family history by Dr. B. D. Ragsdale of Mercer University is included.

Many of the records are notices of elections and taxation ordinances. Correspondence is between various elected officials, including mayors Alonzo Richardson and Byron S. Huie, and the Board of Trade. Attitudes towards race relations are revealed. Other materials include local histories of the town and women's clubs and references to schools, especially the Southern Female (Cox) College, a Baptist girls' school.

Land and estate records of Wilkes County, Georgia, including the will of John Owens. There are three letters: one dated 1843 to a Miss Brackett from Washington, Georgia, may be by Sarah Colley; another is from "Hetty" in Hartford, Connecticut, to Sarah Colley Robert, 1848, after her marriage; and the third is from B. F. Robert to his niece, Mary M. Robert, from Camp Jackson where he is stationed near Hampton Roads, Virginia, in late 1861. He gives some details of life in military camp.

Most of the letters in this collection are by or to Joseph Green Collier of Calhoun County, Georgia. Some are by his brothers in Texas or serving in the Confederate army. There are also three letters by William J. Hicks when he was in the army. Finally there are essays written by Viera Griffin while attending Wesleyan Female College and letters to her from school friends later in life.

This collection includes nine letters, most relating to the Civil War, including some authored by Braxton Bragg, W. J. Hardee, and D. H. Hill. Also included is a list of hospitals in Atlanta, June 1864, and the name of the man in charge at each, probably compiled by Dr. Samuel H. Stout, Medical Director of all the hospitals in the Confederate Army in the Dept. of Tennessee.

Among other records, the book contains numerical reports of the sick and those attending in the General Hospital; provisions, procured and returns; funds transferred by the Commissary; "Monthly Statements of the Hospital Fund"; and "Funds Received from the Ladies Relief Fund." These records cover May-October 1862 and May-August 1863. Cash accounts for Dec. 9, 1862 - Apr. 14, 1863, also titled "Surgeons in Charge, in Account with the Confederate States," appear at the end.

This is a record of attendance of pupils in a school taught by Corrine and Abby Crawford, citing pupils' names, ages, and attendance. The school name is unknown although two pages refer to a "military" school. Pupils include both boys and girls.

Thi collection is primarily genealogical correspondence on the Upshaw, Herndon, and allied families. Also contains published records of the Ocmulgee, Friendship, and Yellow River Primitive Baptist Associations and transcribed minutes of the Beulah Baptist Church. Original documents include deeds, Bible records with slave births, guardianship papers, and a teacher certificate and contract, most from Walton County, Georgia.

The first part of the volume contains entries for gristmill, lumber mill, and ferry crossing services, 1819 - 1821, arranged by name of account. Next are 1825 - 1827 entries for sales of liquor and general merchandise, arranged chronologically. The end of the volume contains 1820 entries for sales of liquor.

Record of goods sold by an unnamed general store in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, citing date, name of account, type of goods, and cost.

The volume includes 1870-1871 minutes of the Central Georgia District Agricultural and Mechanics Fair; several political essays by Crawford; some Crawford genealogical data; and the index to account entries, now missing, of Crawford's law practice. Probably Baldwin County, Georgia.

Brochures of the college and examples of its method of shorthand, the Crichton method. Also included are two letters and some clippings relating to Charles Reid.

The volume contains minutes and membership lists.