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Crawford Long medicine chest

 Collection — Object: 1
Collection number: MSS.021
Overview

Medicine chest purportedly owned by Crawford Long, a doctor known for being the first to use anesthesiology in surgery.

Dates: 1841-1878

Athens-Clarke County Veterans Memorial Plaza scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1, Object: 1
Collection number: MSS.022
Overview

Scrapbook detailing the planning, construction, and dedication of the Athens-Clarke County Veterans Memorial Plaza.

Dates: 1985-1990

Georgia postcard collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Object: 1-80
Collection number: MSS.023
Overview

Postcards depicting buildings and scenes in Athens and other Georgian communities.

Dates: ca. 1930-ca. 2000

J. Tanner collection of Clarke Central High School memorabilia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.024
Overview

Student publications, event programs, certificicates, awards, and other items collected by J. Tanner as a student at Clarke Central High School in the years, 1975-1979, in addition to varied other personal items.

Dates: 1971-1979

City of Athens Police records

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.025
Overview

Docket books from the City of Athens' Police Department/ Mayor's Court documenting individual arrest records. One-hundred-thirty-nine docket books are held by the library; eight have been digitized and are available online via the Digital Library of Georgia.

Dates: 1903-1977

Joanna Eppard collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.026
Overview

Photographs and other materials document Joanna Eppard's work at the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and her involvement with the Telephone Pioneers of America.

Dates: 1908-1953

Collection of dry plates

 Collection — Box: 1, Carton: 1-16
Collection number: MSS.027
Overview

Sixteen exposed dry plates featuring pictures of African American families and individuals, the tombstone of Crawford W. Long, and three persons in front of a dam and mill pond.

Dates: ca. 1920

Bicentennial Oral History Project: Clarke County Schools Before and After Desegregation collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.028
Overview

Oral history recordings from local Athenians interviewed by local Athenians in the mid to late 2000s. The interviews are primarily housed on cassette tapes, with some access copies on CD and some preservation copies on DVD. The collection describes the desegregation of Athens K12 and UGA in the mid 1960s. The interviewees also discuss other details about shopping, education, and churches in Athens.

Dates: 2001-2009

May Erwin Talmadge collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.029
Overview

Photographs, a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and other materials from the personal holdings of May Erwin Talmadge.

Dates: 1908-1963

Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library Referendum collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.030
Overview

The Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library is a 501c(3) group non-profit organization that benefits the Athens-Clarke County library system. The Athens-Clarke County Library was included on the Special Option sales tax referendum in 1988, which the Friends of the Library supported through public programs designed to encourage library patrons and Athens-Clarke residents to vote in favor of approving the referendum.

Dates: 1987-1989

Women's Auxiliary to the Medical Association of Clarke County collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.031
Overview

Meeting minutes, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to the Women's Auxiliary to the Medical Association of Clarke County. Several references to Crawford W. Long are included.

Dates: 1926-1941

Dr. J. B. Carlton freedmen medical ledger

 Collection — Box: 1
Collection number: MSS.032
Overview

Ledger containing information pertaining to more than 370 African-American patient medical accounts.

Dates: 1867-1872

Altrusa Club of Athens records

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.033
Overview

Records of the Altrusa Club of Athens, primarily covering the activities of the club during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Dates: 1957-1973

Athens-Clarke County Veterans Memorial Plaza Committee collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-29
Collection number: MSS.034
Overview

Materials detailing the planning and fund-raising work of the Athens-Clarke County Veterans Memorial Plaza Committee.

Dates: 1985-1990

Perdue Manufacturing Company records

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.035
Overview This collection collects the records and other files of the Perdue Manufacturing Company, also known as the Perry Brothers Manufacturing company, over the course of their time in business which spans roughly 1940 to 1992. The collection contains business receipts and other pieces of correspondence detailing the sale of items to purchasing companies like Sears and Roebuck, JC Penney, and McRaes. The collection contains two series; the first is filed alphabetically, retaining the order of the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1960-1980; 1940-1992

Fowler Family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.036
Overview

Correspondence, photographs, and personal ephemera of the Fowler Family of Athens, Georgia, for the most part pertaining to Joel Jackson Fowler and his daughter, Rebecca.

Dates: ca. 1860-1952

Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.037
Overview

Meeting minutes of the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company from 1857 to 1879, including the signatures of members. Also included is a notice of a meeting held on May 26, 1904, with accompanying signatures.

Dates: 1857-1904

Athens Area Retired Educators Association collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.039
Overview

Records, publications, directories, scrapbooks, and other materials pertaining to the Athens Area Retired Educators Association.

Dates: 1960-2015

Millie Dearing collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS.040
Overview

This collection consists of a scrapbook kept by Mildred "Millie" Lyle Dearing describing her work with the Athens Art Association and the Georgia Museum of Art. Included in the scrapbook are newspaper clippings and other paper materials related to her own artistic endeavors, and her work with Athens Art and Georgia Museum of Art. This collection also includes photographs of Dearing from 1963 and an example of a wedding invitation she designed.

Dates: 1950-1965

Beusse Family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS.041
Overview

Photographs, notebooks, correspondence, and miscellaneous other items from the Beusse Family, most of all Lena Beusse, wife of Henry W. Beusse, an Athens Chief of Police who was the son of Henry Beusse, a German immigrant who became a major political and commercial leader in Athens during the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1881-1959

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Cobb County, Georgia, United States 3
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Confederate States of America. Army 3
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Second Baptist Church 5
Young, Andrew, 1932- 5
Atlanta University 4
Jones, Charles C., Jr. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893 4
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Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation 3
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library 3
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 3
First Congregational Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Friendship Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878 3
Marshall, Edison, 1894-1967 3
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Spelman College 3
WERD (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.) 3
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2
Andrews, Benny, 1930-2006 2
Archer, Jessie Thelma Beasley, 1903-1999 2
Athens Historical Society 2
Athens-Clarke County (Ga.) 2
Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room (Athens, Ga.) 2
Atlanta Life Insurance Company 2
Atlanta Public Library. Auburn Branch 2
Atlanta Public Library. West Hunter Branch 2
Atlanta Public Schools 2
Augusta Symphony 2
Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Blackburn, Ruby Parks, 1901-1982 2
Blayton, Jesse B., Sr., 1897-1977 2
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 2
Carter, Laura 2
Central Presbyterian Church (Athens, Ga.) 2
Cooksey, Eugene V. 2
Cumming, Joseph B. 2
Daughters of the American Revolution 2
Fickett, Richard Nathanial, 1905-1998 2
First Methodist Church 2
Georgia Museum of Art 2
Georgia State University 2
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Hartsfield, William Berry 2
Hester, Albert L., 1932- 2
Hill, Jesse, 1927- 2
Holder, H. Randolph (Howard Randolph), 1916-2002 2
Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003 2
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 2
Kenneth Kay (Photographer) 2
Lee, Sanford Henry, 1878-1958 2
Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) 2
Marshall, George O., 1922-2012 2
McPheeters, Annie L. 2
Moore, John A. 2
Murray, Miledge Galphin 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
National Black Arts Festival, Inc. 2
Neighborhood Arts Center (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Plummer, Gayther, 1925-2014 2
Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908 2
Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928 2
Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
Stephens, Alexander 2
Tanner, J. (Johnnie B.) 2
The City Council of Augusta 2
Tree That Owns Itself 2
United States. Army Air Forces 2
Utopian Literary Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 2
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 2
(Baldwin) Turnell, June, 1932-2019 1
100% Wrong Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
27 Club (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Aaron, George 1
Aaron, Hubert, 1923-2014 1
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 1
Abney, Beth Mobley, 1928-2016 1
Academy Baptist Church 1
Academy of Richmond County 1
Adams, Donald, of Ann Arbor, Mich. 1
Adams, Floyd C. (Floyd Cecil), 1904-1998 1
Adcock Building (Athens, Ga.) 1
African Diaspora Studies Institute (2nd : 1981 : Nairobi, Kenya) 1
Afro-American Life Insurance Company 1
Akola Girls' English School (Berar, India) 1
Alexander and Co. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Alexander, Sarah 1
Alexander, T. M. (Theodore Martin) 1
Alford, James H., Jr., 1940- 1
Allen family 1
Allen, Peyton Austin, 1867-1963 1
Allen, R. W. 1
Allen, Walter, Sr., 1930- 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. South Atlantic region 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Tau Epsilon Omega Chapter (East Point and College Park, Ga.) 1
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity 1
Altrusa Club of Athens 1
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation 1
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