Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Morning Log Book for Company D, 32nd Georgia covering the time period 1 January 1865 through 10 April 1865. There are no entries from mid-February to April 1.

March 5, 1880 Governor Alfred H. Colquitt Letter to Josiah Patterson of Memphis, Tennessee

The parole paper was issued at Macon, GA, May 15, 1865, for Bryan of the 11th Regt. GA Vols., Co. A; however, he cannot be found on that company's roster.

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."

Research begun by Stephens Mitchell's father, Eugene M., and others. Charts, notes, letters, document copies, and typescripts of the Mitchell, Sweet, Stephens, Fitgerald, Munnerlyn, Thomasson, Holliday, and Horry families, mostly in Atlanta and Clayton County, Georgia. Correspondence is with Aurelia Roach McMillan and Deborah M. Wood Griffin. Two 1870s Sweet letters from Texas are included along with various Mitchell and Stephens Atlanta photographs.

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.

Minutes, officers, members, and the constitution and by-laws of a co-educational society that met monthly to present essays, readings, declamations, and music.

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

This collection includes an 1829 letter from Nathaniel Jocelyn, a portrait painter, writing from New York about portraits of Adam and his wife, Sarah Hillhouse Gilbert Alexander, that Jocelyn was shipping to Washington, Georgia. The portraits were still in the Alexander house in 1972. The collection also includes an 1847 letter from John P. King, president of the Georgia Railroad Company, concerning the coming of the railroad to Wilkes County, Georgia.

Sketches, bookplates, illustrated books, newspaper clippings, catalogs, photographs, verses, and letters relating to Miss Everhart's career.

This collection includes aerial photograph books showing the Atlanta metro area and printed large format aerial photographs of Dade County. The collection also includes Flood Insurance Rate Maps and Flood Hazard Boundary Maps of Georgia cities and counties, created for the Federal Insurance Administration/National Flood Insurance Program. Most of these maps are of the metro Atlanta area or the exurbs [outer suburan area].

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.

Nine letters by Dr. Means to Oreon or Orean M. E. Mann (later Mrs. Rufus Smith, 1832-1907), who taught at the Southern Female Masonic College in Covington, Georgia, from 1853-1855. The collection includes a letter to Professor Rufus Smith, president of LaGrange College; a letter from T. Henry Hammond; and one from Dr. J. N. LeConte. There are also notes by Lena Martin concerning the letters and Mann family genealogy.

Letter from Stephens in Washington, DC, addressed to "Dear Doctor," dated July 19th, discussing the national political scene, including slavery and the candidacy of Zachary Taylor for president in 1848.

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.

This travel journal documents Stephens' search northward for recovered health in well-known resorts such as Saratoga Springs, New York, and White Sulphur Springs, West Viriginia. Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts are described in some detail as is his passage by stagecoach, rail, and ship. Medical care, the weather, amusements, agriculture, and milltowns are other subjects. The journal contains several sketched maps.

Seven letters from Stephens to Joel Thomas Olive (1848 - 1897), a lawyer in Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Stephens wrote from Crawfordsville, Taliaferro County, Georgia, and Washington, D. C., on various political matters. One post card from author Corra Harris to Miss Neall about a Mr. Olive, 1923.

The first letter is by a Tennessee college student who may be A. J. or a brother John. He described the response of students and community to the new Confederacy. The second letter was written shortly before A. J.'s death, March 1863, during the Vicksburg, Mississippi, campaign. He gave a vivid description of troop life during the siege.

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.

This collection includes 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.

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.

The diary covers one year in which Dexter worked for the mining company. Contains short daily entries about activities, letters written, visits with family and friends, and work at the mine. It includes references to workers, the wood mine, and the new ditch at the gold mine. There is also a typescript of the diary.

A bill of sale, Sumter County, Georgia, 1885, from Mrs. A. C. Turpin to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. E. G. Turpin, for a horse, a spring buggy, two horse wagons and harness, a head of cattle, one cart and steers, a sow and nine shoats, and various bushels of corn, cotton seed, and potatoes. The other item is an 1881 deed from Rebecca J. (Mrs. J. W.) Mize to Maggie L. (Mrs. Sampson) English for Sumter County land.

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.

Major families include Archer, Barton, Ponder, and Stringer arranged alphabetically. Additional references to those families and others may be found in papers arranged by type of record. Information on minor families is found in an alphabetical file. The records were collected in Cass, Campbell, Cherokee, Floyd, Monroe, Oglethorpe, Thomas, and Warren Counties, Georgia; and in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama.

These records consist of minutes, correspondence, membership lists, newsletters, publications, photographs, and maps created by the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club.

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

Surveys of African American and white families in Greene County, Georgia; correspondence; a manuscript copy of Raper's book, TENANTS OF THE ALMIGHTY; regional, state, county and community maps.

Watson wrote his father and brother about Reconstruction life in Atlanta and gave his opinion on the national and regional politics of the time. Parts of the letters concern his wife, Fanny, and their family.

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

This collection includes genealogy, scrapbooks, and photographs of the George B. and Caroline M. B. Buffington Atkisson family. Scrapbooks contain information about George's teaching career. Also included are World War I records of the donor's father-in-law, a McDonald.

Club papers contain history, by-laws, minutes, membership lists, and financial reports.

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.

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.