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Georgia -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Georgia Chamber of Commerce collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS436
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of travel information pertaining to various cities throughout Georgia. Travel materials include books, pamphlets, postcards, tour maps, correspondence, and press releases. There are also organizational materials such as periodicals, publications, and special event programs.

Dates: 1957-1978, undated

Hines family scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS864f
Scope and Content

This scrapbook was compiled by Lucy Belle Livengood to document her family. Included are photos from family trips to places such as Milledgeville, Stone Mountain, Mount Vernon, and Mr. and Mrs. Livengood's home in Spokane, Washington; as well as postcards from Mary Hines Gunsaulus' journey around Europe. The scrapbook also contains newspaper clippings with obituaries, interviews, and memorials to members of the Hines and McBride families.

Dates: 1877-1925, undated

Hughs family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS121
Scope and Content

This collection contains family histories, scrapbooks, clippings, and correspondence about the Hughs family. Of particular note are three manuscripts; Lucile Smith Hughs' “My Pot Pourri of Ninety Years" about the West End area of Atlanta; Albert S. Mead's “Five Hundred Miles A-Foot” chronicling his trip through the North Georgia mountains; and Mother Mary Monica's “Some Family Memories” about Antebellum Atlanta.

Dates: 1858-1974, undated

James Shorter letter

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS307f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a copy of a letter written by James Shorter, Jr., at Yale College, to his father, James Shorter, Sr of Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky. The letter describes his trip through upper Georgia to Augusta and then to Savannah.

Dates: 1826

Tom Woodham papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1198
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, clippings, postcards, and a landscape plan that provide details on Woodham's professional and personal interests in horticulture and garden history. Included in the collection is Woodham's correspondence with publishers and garden writers such as Penelope Hobhouse, Sir Roy Strong, and Dr. Julia Trevelyan Oman. Also a part of the collection is Augusta "Gussie" Cook's handwritten diary that describes her daily activities in rural Georgia in 1930. Of...
Dates: 1930-2006, undated