Georgia -- Politics and government
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
H.O.P.E., INC. (Help Our Public Education) records
Hugh Hawkins Howell Sr. scrapbook
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.
Hugh M. Dorsey, Sr. papers
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.
Hunter family papers
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.
Jennie Meta Barker research papers
Jimmy Carter correspondence
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.
Joseph Mackey Brown papers
Kristin Oblander papers
Lenox T. Thornton photographs
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.
Lester Maddox papers
Lester Maddox Photographs
Major General Marion Williamson papers
Mrs. Lamar Rutherford Lipscomb scrapbook
This collection is comprised of a scrapbook created by Mrs. Lipscomb that contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and correspondence.
Richard Shryock letter to J.B. Campbell
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.
Roy LeCraw papers
This collection consists of materials removed from a group of scrapbooks and includes pamphlets, programs, invitations, political ephemera, periodicals, posters, advertisements, and some correspondence.
Rufus E. Lester papers
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).
Sally Eugenia Brown photograph album
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.
Short story
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.
Southline Press, Inc. photographs
Tom Watson Brown ephemera
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.