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Holding Institution Hargrett Library

1. Collection UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project, 2019-2020

Description:
The UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project interviews document the experiences of Black students who attended the University of Georgia in the years following the University's 1961 desegregation. Some of the topics alumni discuss include their reasons for enrolling at UGA, their social lives, their academic goals, their experiences with racism on and off campus, and how time their time at UGA has shaped their lives.
Date of Original:
2019/2020
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

2. Collection New Georgia encyclopedia

Description:
Encyclopedia articles related to the history and culture of Georgia.
Date of Original:
2001
Holding Institution:
New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
Hargrett Library
New-York Historical Society
Georgia Historical Society
Howard University
Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark)
Library of Congress
William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum

3. Collection Institute of Ecology Records, Interviews

Description:
Interviews from 1984 to 1985 about the Institute of Ecology with topics including its origins, its approaches to research, its relationship with colleges and universities, and its structural and funding challenges.
Date of Original:
1984/1985
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

4. Collection William Tate UGA desegregation files

Description:
William Tate (1903-1980) was the Dean of Men, University of Georgia, 1946-1971. The materials in this collection document events surrounding the desegregation of the University of Georgia in January 1961.
Date of Original:
1961
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

5. Collection Lillian Smith letters to Rochelle Girson, circa 1960

Description:
The collection consists of four annotated letters from Lillian Smith to Rochelle Girson. Correspondences regard Ms. Smith's selection of books on race relations for the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and include her opinions of works by Louis Lomax, Peter Ritson, and Charles Dickens.
Date of Original:
1960
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

6. Collection Lillian Smith letters to Ashley Montagu

Description:
Correspondence regarding the Anisfield-Wolf Award Committee, books that have been nominated for the award, and personal matters. The collection also includes a carbon from Norman Cousins to Lillian Smith, and a telegram announcing Smith's death.
Date of Original:
1956/1966
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

7. Collection Omer Clyde Aderhold papers

Description:
The collection documents the administrative business of the University of Georgia during O.C. Aderhold's tenure as president from 1950-1967. Materials of particular interest are those documenting the desegregation of the university in January 1961 when Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Hamilton Holmes became the first two African American students to attend UGA.
Date of Original:
1950/1967
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

8. Collection Lillian Smith letter to Kelsey Guilford

Description:
One typewritten letter dated November 11, 1949, "Dear Mr. Guilford," from Lillian Smith regarding Guilford's review of Killers of the Dream.
Date of Original:
1949-11-11
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

9. Collection Lillian Smith letters

Description:
Correspondence between Lillian Smith and her publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, particularly with George P. Brockway and Storer B. Lunt, who discuss the distribution of her works, publicity to sell her books, and reviews of her works. Also includes letters from others relating to the distribution of or reaction to her works.
Date of Original:
1949/1966
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

10. 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

11. Collection Green family World War II letters

Description:
Collection consisting of materials that cover William Walter Green’s time serving in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1943-1945.
Date of Original:
1943/1945
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

12. Collection Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling letters

Description:
Correspondence of a personal nature, regarding health and family matters, but some discuss Smith's activities while on lecture tours. Includes an editorial from 1951 calling Smith's book "Strange Tripe."
Date of Original:
1943/1955
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

13. Collection John Brown Gordon family papers, Series 8. Family bibles

Description:
Materials digitized includes a set of letters dating from 1941-1948 to and from Rev. John Dawson Gordon, whose parents were enslaved by and, later, servants of the Gordon family from 1854 until they moved to California in the 1890s.
Date of Original:
1941/1948
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

14. Collection M. H. Mitchell, Inc. 94th Infantry Division collection

Description:
Correspondence and records reflecting on World War II and the 94th Infantry Division, a military unit that was activated in 1942.
Date of Original:
1940/2020
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

15. Collection Southern photographs collection

Description:
The online collection consists of a 1935 print of African American labor organizer Angelo Herndon in prison.
Date of Original:
1935
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

16. Collection Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Georgia

Description:
Photographs of WPA projects in Georgia including school construction, street repair, water improvement, public health support, and federal theater and archival projects.
Date of Original:
1934/1945
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

17. Collection Hartrampf's vocabulary manuscript

Description:
Two handwritten manuscript volumes dating from 1922 that contain notes by Gustavus A. Hartrampf; the volumes were later published as what is now known as Hartrampf's Vocabularies: Synonyms, Antonyms, Relatives.
Date of Original:
1922
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

19. Collection Lillian Eugenia Smith papers

Description:
Papers of Georgia author, lecturer, human rights advocate Lillian Smith (1897-1966) from circa 1920-1980, one of the first prominent white Southerners to stand against segregation.
Date of Original:
1920/1980
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

20. Collection Photo album of African American colleges and students, 1919-1926

Description:
This collection contains 32 pages of photographs on black scrapbook paper featuring pictures of students and college school buildings from Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina.
Date of Original:
1919/1926
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

21. Collection Georgia Cooperative Extension Service pictures

Description:
Photographs of various aspects of home improvement, rural life and education as well as Home Demonstration Council and 4-H activities dating from 1916 to 1969.
Date of Original:
1916/1969
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

22. Collection Atkins family papers

Description:
Correspondence and writings, photographs, and newspaper clippings chiefly by and about Florence Ewell Atkins, her speeches, and her work with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, dating from 1912-1946.
Date of Original:
1912/1946
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

23. Collection Lewis Wickes Hine photographs, 1909-1913

Description:
The collection consists of photographs by Lewis W. Hine from 1909-1913 depicting child laborers in Georgia. The photographs show mill children at their work or grouped before the mills. A few of the photographs show the shantytowns surrounding the mills where the children lived with their families. The collection includes photographs from the following Georgia mill sites: Augusta, Columbus, LaFayette, Lindale, Macon, Rome, Rossville, Tifton, and Valdosta.
Date of Original:
1909/1913
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

26. Collection Earnest Photographs

Description:
Early 20th-century photographs taken by Athens professor, David Earnest, of locations around Athens and northeast Georgia, including university buildings, residential homes, and religious and business facilities and of individuals and groups, both white and African-American.
Date of Original:
1900/1956
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

27. 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

29. Collection Atherton Seidell photo album

Description:
Photo album created between 1890 and 1899 by renowned medical research chemist Atherton Seidell when he was a student at the University of Georgia.
Date of Original:
1890/1899
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

30. 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

31. Collection Athens, Georgia city directories

Description:
Athens, Georgia city directories from 1889 to 1958.
Date of Original:
1889/1958
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library
Athens-Clarke County Library
University of Georgia. Map and Government Information Library
University of Georgia. Libraries

33. Collection Pandora : yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Description:
Yearbooks of the University of Georgia from 1886 to 1938 and 1965 to 1974.
Date of Original:
1886/1888
1890
1892/1899
1965/1974
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library
Sensitive Content:
Some volumes include historical images and accompanying materials that may contain offensive language or negative stereotypes reflecting the culture or language of a particular period or place. These items are presented as part of the historical record.

34. 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

35. Collection Joseph E. Brown papers

Description:
The online collection consists of correspondence belonging to Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown from 1876
Date of Original:
1876
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

36. Collection The Davis souvenir album of the University of Georgia

Description:
Souvenir album containing fourteen photographs of the University of Georgia, published at "Davis Photo. Art Place," Athens, Georgia published around 1875.
Date of Original:
1875
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

38. Collection Fountain family papers

Description:
Papers of the Fountain and McCants families of Georgia, a large portion of which is comprised of the correspondence and financial records of Jonathan Jackson "Jack" McCants, Sr. (1845-1920) of Butler, Georgia as well as deeds, titles, surveys, receipts, insurance policies, tax information, and printed material from the Fountain, McCants, and McCrary families.
Date of Original:
1870/1955
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

40. Collection Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer King diary, 1866-1868

Description:
Diary of Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer, wife of an Oglethorpe County, Georgia plantation owner, from July 24, 1866 to October 24, 1868.
Date of Original:
1866-07-24/1868-10-24
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

42. Collection University of Georgia Board of Trustees correspondence and reports

Description:
Materials of the University of Georgia's Board of Trustees, including meeting minutes, drafts of resolutions, annual reports, committee reports, auxiliary reports such as catalogs, fiduciary documents, recommendations on degrees, petitions, and correspondence.
Date of Original:
1866/1932
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

44. Collection Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary, 1864-1865

Description:
A personal account of Sherman's march through Georgia and north through the Carolinas.
Date of Original:
1864-11/1865-04-27
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

45. Collection Theodore G. Sledge estate document

Description:
Collection of documents pertaining to the estate of Theodore G. Sledge, who died leaving behind six enslaved men and women, Maria, Lucinda, Spencer, Hester, Minerva, and Francey, and fifteen hundred and thirty-six dollars of Confederate currency. Several family members sought legal action, but the case was dismissed in November 1864.
Date of Original:
1864-10
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

46. Collection Agreement between Angus McQueen and Ellen

Description:
Bill of sale from Savannah, Georgia for the purchase of an enslaved woman, Ellen, and her child, Caroline, and an agreement made between Ellen and Angus McQueen dated 1864-1865.
Date of Original:
1864/1865
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

47. Collection William Joseph and Nancy Wallis Short family papers

Description:
Correspondence of William Joseph "Joe" Short (1834-1924) and Nancy "Nannie" Wallis (1840-1875), as well as an army roll book, writings, and photographs produced between 1862 and 1916.
Date of Original:
1862/1916
Holding Institution:
Newberry Library
Hargrett Library

48. Collection American Civil War

Description:
Variety of important documents and artifacts from the American Civil War held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Date of Original:
1861/1865
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library

50. Collection Alexander H. Stephens family papers

Description:
Materials including an 1860 will belonging to Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), who was born near Crawfordville Georgia, and served as the vice president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, as a United States congressman, and died in office as Georgia governor in 1883.
Date of Original:
1860
Holding Institution:
Hargrett Library