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Georgia -- Politics and government

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Hugh Hawkins Howell Sr. scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS118
Scope and Content

This scrapbook contains clippings about Eugene Talmadge's first campaign for governor in 1933, his inauguration, and Governor Richard Rusell's final address to the Georgia general assembly.

Dates: 1933

Hugh M. Dorsey, Sr. papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS279
Scope and Content

This collection contains six scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and ephemeral materials. Of particular interest is a copy of the speech by Dorsey to Governor Slaton in response to the motion to dismiss filed in behalf of Leo M. Frank.

Dates: 1838-1924

Hunter family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS371f
Scope and Content

This collection contains minutes of the State House and Senate in Milledgeville, Georgia, for 1864 and various papers of E. A. Perkins who married into the Hunter family. The minute book ledger was kept by Ed Walker who later ran a general store in Milledgeville. The papers of Edward A. Perkins include insurance policies, patents on an insect exterminator, harness attachment, and lightning pea planter, a drawing, and a memorial resolution, among other material.

Dates: 1864-1906

Jennie Meta Barker research papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS53
Scope and Content These papers consist primarily of newspaper clippings collected by Jennie Meta Barker about Atlanta and it's history. Most clippings relate broadly to Atlanta, but particular subjects include history, the arts, politics and government, business and organizations, notable Atlantans, and Georgia geography. In addition to clippings, there are also reports, pamphlets, publications, and correspondence relating to these topics. The collection also contains notes and chapters that Barker wrote...
Dates: approximately 1820-1967, undated; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1967

Jimmy Carter correspondence

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS768f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of correspondence written to and from Carter related to his personal life and public service. There is also a letter from a group of Atlantans endorsing Carter's 1970 gubernatorial candidacy.

Dates: 1970-1983

Joseph Mackey Brown papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS41
Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence and ephemera of Joseph Mackey Brown, and also for his father, Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown. The bulk of his correspondence relates to his tenure as governor, and includes pledges of support, congratulatory letters, and requests for patronage and jobs. Campaign correspondence relates to his failed gubernatorial campaign of 1910. In addition to his gubernatorial correspondence, agriculture and farming were frequent topics, as was the Georgia...
Dates: 1846-1926, undated; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1914

Kristin Oblander papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1271
Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to Oblander’s career in political fundraising. Professional materials make up the bulk of the collection, including memos and other internal documents from various campaigns, financial information and donor records, fundraising event invitations, and campaign mail. Represented in the collection are Oblander Group clients, including presidential, congressional, statewide, legislative, and municipal candidates, as well as party committees and other...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1980-2022, undated

Lenox T. Thornton photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS442
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of Georgia county courthouses used for Georgia counties: a fact-book on Georgia's counties featuring photographs by the author of all 159 Georgia courthouses. Most photographs are accompanied by descriptions detailing the county and the courthouse’s history, or the building’s architecture. Also included are photographs of former Ashby, Inman Park, and Virginia Avenue street car barns in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1920-1976, undated

Lester Maddox papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1267
Scope and Contents The collection contains records generated during Lester Maddox's time in office as governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia and his political campaigns in 1966 and 1974, subject files, booklets, correspondence, scrapbooks, and audio recordings. Campaign papers include letters of support, volunteer lists, agendas, district organization charts, and lists of contributors. Subject files include information on a 1963 grand jury investigation of the Atlanta Police Department in which Atlanta...
Dates: 1915-2003, undated

Lester Maddox Photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS105
Scope and Contents of the Records The majority of this collection is comprised of images of Lester Maddox during his tenure as governor, and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Also included are campaign events during his run for mayor of Atlanta, and governor and lieutenant governor of Georgia. Most of the campaign photographs were produced during his run for lieutenant governor and were taken at events in rural Georgia. There are several photographs of Maddox riding on bicycles and speaking to crowds. Many of the photographs...
Dates: 1934-2000, undated

Mrs. Lamar Rutherford Lipscomb scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS339
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of a scrapbook created by Mrs. Lipscomb that contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.

Dates: 1928-1951, undated

Richard Shryock letter to J.B. Campbell

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS50f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a letter from Duke University professor Richard Shryock, the author of Georgia and the Union in 1850, published in 1926, to J. B. (John Bulow) Campbell of Marietta, Georgia. In the letter, Mr. Shryock requested information about Mr. Campbell's grandfathers one of whom, David C. Campbell, was one of the editors of the Federal Union and the other, Richard M. Orme, was editor of the Southern Recorder, both Milledgeville newspapers.

Dates: 1929 June 7

Roy LeCraw papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS504
Scope and Content

This collection consists of materials removed from a group of scrapbooks and includes pamphlets, programs, invitations, political ephemera, periodicals, posters, advertisements, and some correspondence.

Dates: 1907-1973; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1949

Rufus E. Lester papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS416f
Scope and Content

These papers include a letter to Rufus Lester from James K. Aames; a letter to T. P. Ravenell from T. D. Rockwell on Savannah Volunteer Guards letterhead; a document from the Supreme Court of Georgia with a handwritten note to T. P. R. from R. E. L. (probably Rufus E. Lester).

Dates: 1882-1892

Sally Eugenia Brown photograph album

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS238
Scope and Content

The photograph album documents the travels of Sally Eugenia Brown from approximately 1890-1902. Identified photographs show the “Eden Fair” (location unknown) in September 1900; Mount Washington in New Hampshire; Saratoga, New York; and “Storyman Camp” (location unknown) in 1902. The remaining images include exterior views of building and homes, railroad trains and stations, streetcars, ships, and scenes of natural waterfalls. Of note are three albumen prints of Brown and her family.

Dates: approximately 1890-1902

Short story

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS626f
Scope and Content

This collection consist of one short story, author unknown, about a young attorney debating his future at his present firm. The story is written on the backs of nine copies of a political flyer promoting DuPont Guerry as Democratic Party nominee for governor of Georgia on a Prohibition platform. Joseph M. Terrell won the nomination and the election in 1902.

Dates: approximately 1902

Southline Press, Inc. photographs

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS158
Scope and Contents of the Records This collection contains images of people, places, and events, most of whom were represented in news stories and other features in Southline. Images of people include political and civic leaders, religious leaders, professionals, entertainers, journalists and authors, athletes, and the general public. Among the photographs are images of Marvin Arrington, Roy Barnes, Julian Bond, Mike Bowers, Bill Campbell, Shirley Franklin, Pierre Howard, Maynard Jackson, Joseph Lowry, Billy McKinney,...
Dates: circa 1985-1989, undated

Tom Watson Brown ephemera

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1110
Scope and Content

This collection contains material collected by and about Tom Watson Brown. There are reviews and critiques of the television documentary The Murder of Mary Phagan that aired on NBC in 1988; speeches given by Brown at the Confederate Memorial Day service in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1978, and about the Leo Frank trial, given in 1982; and an assortment of tickets from sporting and entertainment events primarily from the Atlanta area.

Dates: 1933-2002, undated; Majority of material found within 1978 - 1996

Union Democratic Convention proceedings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS448f
Scope and Content

This collection contains the printed proceedings from the Atlanta Intelligencer in a Special Edition. The content concerns an attempted reconciliation in Georgia between the Union wing of the Democratic Party and the Southern Rights wing of the Democratic Party proposed by the Union Democratic Convention held in Atlanta Sept. 17, 1852. This was an attempt to unify the Democratic Party in Georgia behind Franklin Pierce in the presidential election of 1852.

Dates: 1852 Sept. 18

Western and Atlantic Railroad report

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS503f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of one published report, a United States Senate version of an 1837 survey report by Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), Chief Engineer of the W&A. The survey includes detailed maps of north Georgia and information about construction costs.

Dates: 1837