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MSS. Augusta University manuscript collections

 Record Group
Identifier: MSS
Manuscript collections owned by Reese Library Special Collections and Institutional Archives

Found in 411 Collections and/or Records:

W.H. Fluker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-005
Abstract

The collection consists of papers of W.H. Fluker from 1906-1926. The papers mainly contain correspondence pertaining to his involvement with the Columbia Mining Company (McDuffie County, Ga.).

Dates: Created: 1906-1926; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1978

White House realia

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: MSS-407
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of ephemera from the White House restoration conducted during the Truman presidency, including moulding and other architectual pieces from the White House.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 10/03/2018

William Boone Jones diploma

 Collection — 1 item
Identifier: MSS-032
Abstract

1927 diploma of Willam Boon Jones. First diploma given by the Junior College. Mr. Jones was valedictorian. 16"x 20"

Dates: Created: 1927; Other: Date acquired: 00/12/1983

William H. Dumont, Stovall family genealogy research

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-107
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 9 notebooks of William H. Dumont's genealogy research notes for the Stovall family, compiled while he was writing the Stovall Geneaology. The notebooks, originally housed in binders, seem to have been split into two sets by Dumont. The first set are numbered 1-4, with a 5th notebook acting as an index, and the second set of notebooks labeled A-D.

Dates: Created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 02/06/1985

William H. Fletcher papers

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: MSS-282
Scope and Contents

Military documents, personal letters, photos and newspaper clippings written by or about William H. Fletcher during his WWII service.  Also includes information on boyhood friends who enlisted with Fletcher in Augusta, Georgia and comrades from the 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbots, England.

Dates: Created: 1942-2007; Other: Majority of material found in (1942-1945 ); Other: Date acquired: 05/14/2009

William Henry Fleming papers

 Collection — Box 3-4and1item
Identifier: MSS-143
Abstract

Letters, his law cases, and personal correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1852-1935; Other: Date acquired: 06/16/1989

William Joseph Bignon Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-311
Scope and Contents

The Arsenal Collection of William Joseph Bignon contains books about World War II and tool making, as well as a dictionary. It also contains a military first aid kit, a masonic cap and case, a photograph, and a large framed piece of art.

Dates: Created: 1855-1968; Other: Date acquired: 01/24/2013

William Robinson School plans

 Collection — 1 map tube
Identifier: MSS-351
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of two items: a copy of the floorpan for the building,drawn by F.C.W., and another copy of the architectual plans for the building, titled "The Present Summerville School." Both items are done in pencil, on tracing paper. The William Robinson School, originally called the Summerville School, was designed in 1925 by Willis Irvin, and completed in 1927. Today, the school building has been converted into condominiums.

Dates: Created: 1926

Willie Thompson correspondence

 Collection — 2 boxes
Identifier: MSS-313
Scope and Contents

Various letters from friends and family to Willie Thompson while he was in the United States Navy from 1943-1945

Dates: Created: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 05/22/2013

Willis Irvin blueprints

 Collection — drawings
Identifier: MSS-110
Abstract

Blueprints of Irvin Willis, architect of Bon Air hotel.

Dates: Created: 1904-1905; Other: Date acquired: 03/05/1985

Women’s Titleholders Championship programs

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-194
Scope and Contents

Four tournament programs for the Women’s Titleholders Championship contain lists of winners and profiles of women golfers

Dates: Created: 1958-1964; Other: Majority of material found in 1958, 1959. 1962. 1964; Other: Date acquired: 05/07/1993