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Benny Andrews papers

 Collection
Collection number: aarl92-001
Overview

The collection consists of African American artist Benny Andrews' exhibit programs, announcements, guides, booklets, and catalogs for solo and collaborative exhibits between 1975 and 1992 as well as periodical articles from 1971 to 1992 and information about the artistic contributions of his family members.

Dates: 1971-1992

Bicentennial Capsule Committee Report

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Collection number: MS-131
Scope and Contents

One letter explaining the purpose of the capsule and an inventory of its contents.

Dates: 1976-12-29

Black Church History Collection

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Collection number: aarl096-011
Scope and Contents

The Black Church History collection consists of items from various churches in the Atlanta area and throughout the South. These items range from church histories, annual events and programs. These materials give insight to these various religious institutions and their community efforts.

The date ranges of this collection are 1970-2002.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970-2002

Black History at Noon oral history series sound recordings

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Collection number: aarl82-001
Overview

The collection consists of six audiocassette tapes from the Black history at noon oral history series held in the 1970s and organized by the Special Collections Dept. of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System and covers conducting periodical research, an introduction to the rare book collection, and information on noted African American author Richard Wright.

Dates: [1970-1979?]

Black History Month Essay Contest Collection

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Collection number: aarl-ephemera03
Scope and Contents The Atlanta- Fulton Public Library System began "The Black History Essay Contest" in 1976 as part of its Black History Month celebration. The purpose of the contest was to provide an opportunity for individuals of all ages to express their opinions and ideas and promote research on selected topics relating to the African-American experience. Interested participants were invited to submit an essay, restricted to one thousand (1000) words or less, in one of the four divisions established by...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1977-1992

Black Panther Ephemera Collection

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Collection number: aarl.EPBPP.124
Dates: Majority of material found within 1969-1979

Black Popular Music Collection

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Collection number: aarl001-003
Overview This collection contains 55 musical records (of which 11 records are of 78 medium size plates and 44 are of 44 small size plates) of black musicians. The musical recordings include a wide range of music from jazz, blues, Soul to gospel. The intention for this collection is to provide access to a wide variety of Black Popular Music, also to enrich your knowledge of black cultural experiences, expression, and representations through this musical collection. The collection has been arranged...
Dates: 1946-1972

Blanche Cotton Mills Inc. Tags

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Collection number: MS-82
Scope and Contents

2 tags

Dates: Unknown

Bondurant / Augustus Trammel collection

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Collection number: aarl89-009
Overview

The collection documents the Bondurant family through correspondence and photographs dated from 1917 as well as Augustus Trammel's life as an African American farmer near Villa Rica, Georgia from 1907-1942 through his financial papers.

Dates: 1907-1942

Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Georgia) Class of 1956 Collection

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Collection number: aarl017-001
Scope and Contents note

This Collection Consists of correspondence, programs, financial records, invitations to reunions, Newspaper clippings of ceremonies, awards, and rosters of the Booker T. Washington class of 1956 dating from 1956-2016. Over half of this collection consists of pictures from various reunions between 1972-2011. Also included are decorations and clothing to commemorate the reunions.

Dates: 1956-2016

Booklet on Frank Lebby Stanton

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Collection number: MS-91
Scope and Contents

Contains biographical information and essays about Frank Lebby Stanton as well as portions of Stanton’s own verse.

Dates: 1938

Bookmark Collection

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Collection number: BKMK.001.94
Dates: Majority of material found within 1994-2002

Boy Scout Troop 181

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Collection number: MS-003
Scope and Contents Boy Scout Troop 181 was formed in Peachtree City, Georgia in 1981. It was chartered by the Peachtree City Kiwanis Club, and met weekly at Christ our Shepherd Lutheran Church. Jack Elrod was the first scoutmaster, and he and another father founded the Troop. Troop 181 was still in existence as of 2024, with scoutmaster Phil Carson, and committee chair Bill Childers.This scrapbook, in addition to the title page, has fifty (50) pages, most with color photographs, and about six pages...
Dates: 1997

Building Augusta and the Central Savannah River Area Newsletters

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Collection number: MS-61
Scope and Contents

Reports on business news for Augusta Georgia and the Central Savannah River Area.

Dates: 1951-05 - 1965-12

Burdell Benjamin (B.B.) Beamon photograph collection

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Collection number: aarl95-012
Overview

This photograph collection contains photographs of radio personalities, T.V. entertainers, such as Ed Sullivan, and great singers of the 1940s and 1950s, such as Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Nat "King" Cole, and Billy Eckstein. Also included in this photograph collection are singing stars of the 1970s and 1980s such as James Brown, B.B. King, and Isaac Hayes. There are also photographs of family members and other memorabilia/ephemera.

Dates: 1930-1996

Button and Pin Collection

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Collection number: 05.2020
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of various political and cultural buttons from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Dates: undated

Calhoun - Gordon Cemetery Records

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Collection number: NWRLC.001-CGL.001
Scope and Contents

The Calhoun-Gordon Cemetery Records collection includes the results of personal and professional research into the public, religious, and private/family cemeteries of six different Georgia counties: Bartow, Floyd, Gordon, Monroe, Murray, and Whitfield. Gordon county contains the largest quantity of materials.

Dates: Other: 1830 - 2000

Call Board for The Augusta Players Newsletter

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Collection number: MS-65
Scope and Contents

Contains Vol. 5 of Call Board for The Augusta Players Newsletter

Dates: 1966 - 1967

Carolyn Mobley papers

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Collection number: aarl009-007
Dates: Majority of material found within 1981-2009

Carswell-Kilpatrick Family Letters

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Collection number: MS-121
Scope and Contents

Collection of twenty-one (21) letters donated to the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System on 21 February 2018 by Mr. Bryant Huff of Broxton, Georgia (see letter). The letters span a ten (10) year period from 28 July 1886 to 29 December 1896, and are mostly correspondence between Anna Cornelia Carswell and her first cousin Macon Kilpatrick, with a few outlying letters written between Anna and her sister Sarah Carswell.

Dates: 1886-07-28 - 1896-12-29

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Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History 206
Georgia Heritage Room 146
Heritage Room, Athens-Clarke County Library 77
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African American churches -- Georgia 6
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Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
Civil rights movements--Southern States. 3
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Cobb County, Georgia, United States 3
Community life--Georgia--Atlanta. 3
Confederate States of America. Army 3
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Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration 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
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 4
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University of Georgia 4
Athens Community Council on Aging (Athens, Ga.) 3
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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