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1. Collection Big Joy Digital Collection

Description:
Filmed interviews about poet and filmmaker James Broughton and reading of his poetry used as sources for Big Joy, a documentary about the West Coast experimental filmmaker.
Date of Original:
2013
Holding Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

4. Collection Africana digital ethnography project (ADEPt)

Description:
Audio, moving image, and print submissions to the African Digital Ethnography Project, dating from 2011 to 2018.
Date of Original:
2011/2018
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

5. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia exhibitions

Description:
Catalogs for exhibitions held at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia from 2002 to 2016.
Date of Original:
2002/2016
Holding Institution:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia

6. Collection National security for the 21st century

Description:
Articles, speeches, and video interviews from 1997 to 2000 with Senator Sam Nunn and national security experts at the University of Georgia, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Atlanta First Responder training community.
Date of Original:
1997/2000
Holding Institution:
Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department

8. Collection Dean Rusk oral history collection, 1984-1989

Description:
The collection consists of oral history interviews with Dean Rusk and his colleagues between 1984-1989.
Date of Original:
1984/1989
Holding Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

9. Collection President Jimmy Carter daily diary

Description:
Daily diary of Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and the Thirty-Ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 recorded during his presidency.
Date of Original:
1977/1981
Holding Institution:
Jimmy Carter Library

10. Collection Oral histories of the American South (Georgia selections)

Description:
Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.
Date of Original:
1972/2006
Holding Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

11. Collection Johnny Mercer Oral History Project

Description:
Transcripts of oral history interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues of Savannah, Georgia-born lyricist and musician Johnny Mercer and his wife Ginger dating from 1970 to 2002.
Date of Original:
1970/2002
Holding Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

13. Collection Asa G. Hilliard, III papers, audio-visual materials series

Description:
Speeches, lectures, and presentations given by Dr. Asa G. Hilliard and others between 1964 and 2000 on Afrocentricity, Egypt, Black history, education, and school psychology.
Date of Original:
1964/2000
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

14. Collection Bo Richmond Photograph Collection

Description:
Roosevelt "Bo" Richmond was an amateur photographer from Alabama. He photographed events, buildings, people, and documented the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Date of Original:
1964/1974
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

15. Collection Larry Rubin papers 1961-2010

Description:
Audio and video of meetings and activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Georgia recorded by Larry Rubin in the early 1960s; audio letters from Larry Rubin to his parents from Georgia in the early 1960s; Rubin's radio program, "Revolution in Georgia," created at Antioch College in the early 1960s; two video documentaries of the movement in Georgia featuring Rubin; two programs commemorating SNCC, dating from 2003 and 2010; papers relating to the arrest of Rubin and other SNCC/COFO members in Mississippi in 1964 for hauling books to Freedom Schools.
Date of Original:
1961/2010
Holding Institution:
Duke University. Library

16. Collection AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records

Description:
Between 1973 and 1989, the Southeast Division made seven donations of materials to the GSU Southern Labor Archives. These include correspondence, print materials and publications by the AFL-CIO and other organizations, administrative records, photographs, and audio recordings, as well as the personal papers of E.T. Kehrer. 
Date of Original:
1949/1989
Holding Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

17. Collection The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

Description:
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection, 1946-2014, contains approximately 450 linear feet of personal papers, sermons, speeches, correspondence, SCLC and SCLC/WOMEN records, and hundreds of historical photographs and audiovisual records documenting the Lowery's struggle of justice and equality. The Lowery Trust granted sole ownership of the collection to Morehouse College in March 2021. Shortly thereafter, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library was formally designated as custodian of the collection with responsibilities for housing and providing access for students, scholars, researchers, and the global community.
Date of Original:
1946/2014
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

19. Collection The 116th AAA Gun Bn Mobile typescript (photocopy)

Description:
The volume, compiled and styled by John Grove Murray, chronicles the 116th AAA Gun battalion unit from its beginning in 1943 through the Normandy Invasion on Utah Beach on 6 June 1944, on through Paris and Sedan, France into Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Included are unit commendations, rosters, and other vital statistics, and comments added by Colonel James D. Shearouse 42 years later.
Date of Original:
1943/1944
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

20. Collection Civil Rights History Project

Description:
Oral history interviews with civil rights activists conducted as part of the Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.
Date of Original:
1940/1969
Holding Institution:
Library of Congress
American Folklife Center
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)

21. Collection Frances J. Pratt Letters on the US Foreign Policy Association, 1940-1965

Description:
Series of typed correspondences by Frances J. Pratt, the Director of Special Events for the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, written between the years 1940 and 1965.
Date of Original:
1940/1965
Holding Institution:
Cobb County Public Library System (Marietta, Ga.)

22. Collection Veterans history project : oral history interviews

Description:
Oral histories of American war veterans who served in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, and civilians who served in their support.
Date of Original:
1939/1991
Holding Institution:
Atlanta History Center

24. Collection Eastern Air Lines Collection

Description:
Correspondence, memorabilia, and records highlighting labor, management, public relations, mediation, corporate culture, marketing, media coverage, and operations at Eastern Air Lines between 1905 and 2010.
Date of Original:
1930/1990
Holding Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

25. Collection Life of the Child in American Society

Description:
Collection created for a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) exhibition, the Life of the Child in American Society, with material digitized through the DPLA's Public Libraries Partnership Project.
Date of Original:
1930/1959
Holding Institution:
Clarkesville-Habersham Library
Athens-Clarke County Library
Pine Mountain Regional Library
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
Hall County Library System (Ga.)

26. Collection Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection

Description:
Date of Original:
1930/1971
Holding Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

27. Collection Photographs of the Historic American buildings survey: Georgia

Description:
Photographs and drawings of Georgia's historic buildings created from 1929 to 1945 as part of the WPA's Historic American Buildings Survey project.
Date of Original:
1929/1945
Holding Institution:
Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department

28. Collection Equal rights newsletters

Description:
Equal Rights was a publication of the National Woman's Party. Began in 1923, it was the successor to the failed Suffragist. Its name is representative of its purpose: the editors of the newsletter believed that the only way to achieve equality amongst the sexes was to introduce an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.
Date of Original:
1924/1925
Holding Institution:
Valdosta State University. Odum Library. Archives and Special Collections

29. Collection The Liberator magazine collection

Description:
"The Liberator" Magazine was established in 1918 and focused on various aspects of socialism and communism. The magazine included political cartoons, creative writing, and informative articles; this online collection includes an issue from March, 1921.
Date of Original:
1921-03
Holding Institution:
Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management

31. Collection Lillian Smith papers, 1915-1972

Description:
Lillian Smith (1897-1966), author, lecturer, and human rights advocate, was born in Jasper County, Florida, and resided in Rabun County, Georgia. Her best known fiction piece was the controversial 1944 novel 'Strange Fruit'.
Date of Original:
1915/1972
Holding Institution:
University of Florida. Libraries

32. Collection Legends of the dead-ball era, 1909-1913

Description:
Childhood baseball card collection dating from 1909 to 1913 of Richard B. Russell, Jr.
Date of Original:
1909/1913
Holding Institution:
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

33. Collection Hoyt William Fuller collection

Description:
The Hoyt William Fuller Collection documents his career from 1943-1981.
Date of Original:
1905/1978
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

34. Collection Johnson Publishing Company clipping files collection

Description:
Founded in 1942 by African American businessman John H. Johnson, the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. published Ebony and Jet magazines, as well as other publications. This collection contains newspapers clippings, press releases, and more used as research for the various publications.
Date of Original:
1905/1982
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

35. Collection C. Eric Lincoln collection

Description:
Photographs from 1904 to 2000 documenting portraiture, family, research, and events participated in by African American scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln.
Date of Original:
1904/2000
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

36. Collection Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library postcard collection

Description:
Collection of twentieth-century print and photographic postcards from the Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library, located inside of the main branch of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System in Moultrie, Georgia.
Date of Original:
1900/1980
Holding Institution:
Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
Sensitive Content:
Note on sensitive content: Though this digitized archival collection documents the cultural history of Georgia, users should be aware that as a consequence of the time period in which these documents were created, some materials contain terms that are outdated and considered inappropriate or offensive for usage today. For more information, please see our Statement on Objectionable Digitized Content at georgialibraries.org/about-gpls.

37. Collection Popular music collections

Description:
Photographs of 20th century popular music, jazz, and country music.
Date of Original:
1900/2013
Holding Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

38. Collection John H. Wheeler collection

Description:
Items related to John H. Wheeler, who was heavily involved in politics and education through various positions within the federal government and on various boards of trustees for institutions like Morehouse College, Atlanta University, Lincoln Hospital, and the National Scholarship Service for Negro Students.
Date of Original:
1895/1973
Holding Institution:
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

39. Collection Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers

Description:
Correspondence dating from 1792 to 1938 of Georgia and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar and his wife, Georgia writer and clubwoman Clarinda Pendleton Lamar.
Date of Original:
1895/1938
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

40. Collection United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau form letter

Description:
This collection contains a form letter from the fraudulent United States Ex-slave Owners Registration Bureau (a scam targeting former slave owners eager to be reimbursed for the loss of their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation) assuring former slave owners that by paying a fee, the bureau would register the number of slaves they lost at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation so that they could be compensated.
Date of Original:
1890/1899
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

41. Collection Atlanta funeral programs collection

Description:
African American funeral programs dating from 1886-2019 held by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History.
Date of Original:
1886/2019
Holding Institution:
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
African-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.). Metro Atlanta Chapter

42. Collection Centennial celebration of the capture of Fort Galphin

Description:
Manuscript of historian Charles Colcock Jones' address given in Silver Bluff, South Carolina on May 21, 1881 about the caputure of Fort Galphin.
Date of Original:
1881
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

43. Collection Rosa Parks papers

Description:
Items from the Manuscript Division and the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress that document many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans.
Date of Original:
1866/2006
Holding Institution:
Library of Congress

45. Collection George Horace Lorimer family papers

Description:
Family papers of American journalist, author, and Saturday Evening Post editor George Horace Lorimer dating from 1858 to 1952 that includes business correspondence, business and estate papers, writings, printed material, scrapbooks, blueprints, and photographs.
Date of Original:
1858/1952
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

46. Collection L. A. Chamerovzow letter to Miss Hildrith

Description:
The collection consists of one letter written on British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society letterhead: dated February 15, 1855, "Dear Madam," signed "L. A. Chamerovzow," regarding the publications Slave Life in Georgia, and the Anti-Slavery Reporter. Chamerovzow mentions several influential British anti-slavery leaders and alludes to the policy of emancipation in South Africa.
Date of Original:
1855-02-15
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

47. Collection African American literature

Description:
Books and pamphlets, generally published in the latter half of the 19th century, chronicling the lives and issues of African Americans during that time.
Date of Original:
1850/1900
Holding Institution:
Emory University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

48. Collection UGA Map and Government Information Library map collection

Description:
Maps dating back to the mid-19th century, with an emphasis on Georgia cities and counties; some types of maps included are rural delivery routes, highways, topographic, and soil.
Date of Original:
1850/2021
Holding Institution:
University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library

49. Collection Civil War Collection

Description:
The Civil War collection is an artificial collection consisting of both contemporary and non-contemporary materials relating to the American Civil War (1861-1865).
Date of Original:
1839/1972
Holding Institution:
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University. General Libraries

50. Collection Frederick W. Benteen collection addendum, 1833-1978

Description:
The collection consists of photographs of family members and military friends of Frederick W. Benteen. His commission paper is included as well. It is dated 1864 November 23 and commissions him to brigadier general. Also includes is a bound, gilt-edged album of religious pictures; the folded American flag that draped the coffin of Mrs. Anita Benteen Mitchell), Benteen's graddaughter, in 1978; and a tattered American flag that appears to be a 10th Missouri Cavalry flag, flown during the Civil War and was donated after the initial gift in 1973.
Date of Original:
1833/1978
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library