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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 410 Collections and/or Records:

Bon Air Residential Hotel brochure

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-333
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Boykin Wright papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-002
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of the personal papers of Boykin Wright. Collection materials include business, financial, and personal correspondence, financial records, legal records from Wright's work as a judge, as well as maps and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection is comprised of Wright's correspondence with family members, particuarly during WWI.

Dates: Created: 1882-1932; Other: Majority of material found in 1917-1932; Other: Date acquired: 02/06/1979

Bredenberg family papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-200
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1993

Burdishaw and Symns postcards

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-375
Abstract

Collelction holds postcards document historic Augusta buldings from ca. 1890-ca. 1970

Dates: Created: ca. 1890- ca. 1970

Burke County legal records

 Collection — 1 box
Identifier: MSS-105
Scope and Contents

The majority of the documents are indentures recording sales or transfers of land in Burke County, Georgia.

Dates: Created: 1768-1848; Other: Date acquired: 09/14/1984

Burke County legal records & correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-395
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of miscellaneous legal records and correspondence relating to individuals and families in Burke County, Georgia. The majority of documents relate to the buying and selling of real estate, and includes deeds, trust deeds,  and plot maps describing property lines. Also included are indentures, and letters related to these legal arrangements.

Dates: Created: 1782-1856; Other: Majority of material found in 1800-1856

Camp Gordon and Augusta, GA photographs

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-021
Abstract

Training scenes at Camp Gordon, Augusta scenes Produced in cooperation with Public Relations Section, Camp Gordon, Georgia by Nacbman - Rhodes, Inc., Augusta, GA. Photographs: Maurice Getchell Commercial Printing Co.

Dates: Created: 1940-1949; Other: Date acquired: 10/24/1982

Campbell and Nelson Cotton Merchants' correspondence

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-008
Abstract

Copies of the correspondence of the firm of Campbell and Nelson cotton merchants.

Dates: Created: 1803; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/1979

Cazenove Helm papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-235
Abstract

Miscellaneous papers relating to Cazenove Helm, A. J. Miller, Cumming family and Georgia Railroad Bank.

Dates: Created: 1800-1900; Other: Date acquired: 01/02/2003

Central Savannah River Area Library Association records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-109
Abstract

Records of the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) Library Association

Dates: Created: 1962-2013; Other: Date acquired: 03/05/1985

Channel 6 Augusta Riots footage

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: MSS-258
Scope and Contents

Footage runs for 2 minutes and 11 seconds.  Material is retrospective coverage of the riots made within a week of the occurrence of the event.  Footage includes scenes of the protestors assembling at the Augusta Richmond County Municipal Building, scenes of peace-keeping personal and scenes of destroyed buildings.  There is audio of James Brown discussing the cause of the riot accompanied by a still photograph.

Dates: Created: 1970; Other: Date acquired: 10/01/2006

Charles C. Jones Jr. clippings

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-419
Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of a single folder of clippings and ephemera that were interleaved in Charles Jones Jr.'s copy of the Biographical annals of the civil government of the United States : during its first century : from original and official sources (1876), by Charles Lanman. The book was cataloged, and is...
Dates: Created: 1898, undated; Other: Date acquired: 04/15/2019

Charles Carroll Paine papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-332
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Charles Cordle papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-167
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 03/24/1992

Charles, Duke of Richmond photograph

 Collection — 314
Identifier: MSS-391
Abstract

photograb\ph from the oringal etching. Framed 15'x12.5". In Pfadenhauer case in spectal Collestions

Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Charles G. Cordle class registers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-166
Abstract

27 class registers spanning the years of 1925-1961 at the Academy of Richmond County- Junior College of Augusta

Dates: Created: 1925-1961; Other: Date acquired: 03/24/1992

Cherokee alphabet poster

 Collection — 1 item
Identifier: MSS-160
Abstract

Christmas 1983 Commemorative Print poster of Sepuoyah's Cherokee alphabet adopted by the Cherokee Indian Legislature in 1821. This alphabet was used in America's first Indian-Language  newspaper, the Cherokee Phonenix published  weekly from 1828-1834

Dates: Created: 1983; Other: Date acquired: 12/17/1990

Chinese-Americans oral histories

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS-276
Scope and Contents Discs one through four contain oral interviews with Raymond T. Rufo, Evelyn A. Woo Loo, Ellen Woo Dong, Margaret Wong and James Woo.  The fifth disc contains brief histories of the participants, scans of material collected during immigration interviews and a brief explanation of the purpose of the project.  An unbound copy of Mr. Bronstein’s dissertation The Formation and Development of Chinese Communities in Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah Georgia: From Sojourners to Settlers,...
Dates: Created: 2005-2006; Other: Date acquired: 08/13/2008

Citizens' and Southern Bank calendar

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-335
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

City of Augusta Police yearbook

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS-385
Abstract

Booklet contains photographs of the divisions of the city of Augusta Police Department.  Other photgraphs include the mayor and the ward commissioners.  Also a great source for local advertisements

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1909