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ARCHS. Augusta Richmond County Historical Society manuscript collections

 Record Group
Identifier: ARCHS
Manuscript collections owned by the Academy of Richmond County Historical Society, on Deposit at Reese Library Special Collections & Instituional Archives.

Found in 153 Collections and/or Records:

Autograph and Autographed Photographs collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-191
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of autographs and autographed photograph prints containing signatures of figures such as presidents, first ladies, justices, and other government officials. Signatures include those of: Edith Wilson, Charles E. Hughes, William Taft, Robert Taft, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, and Herman Talmadge. Autographed photograph prints include signatures from Joseph Rucker Lamar and William Taft, with personal inscriptions.

Dates: Created: 1913-1924; Other: 1983-2019

Benson Family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-100
Overview

Spanning the 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection documents the Benson family, with a primary focus on Berry Benson's military, literary, and historical research papers. The collection also includes family diaries by Charles and Arthur Benson and scrapbooks compiled by Jeanie Benson chronicling Augusta's cultural history.

Dates: Created: 1865-1954; Acquired: 1981-1993

Berckmans/Fruitland Nursery records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-103
Scope and Contents

Material contains correspondence, invoices, receipts, shipping labels, cancelled checks, catalogs and brochures generated or sent to Berckmans/Fruitland Nursery

Dates: Created: 1835-1947; Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1913; Other: Date acquired: 12/00/1983

Beverly Mitchell Allmond photograph

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: ARCHS-167
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of a single black and white photograph of Beverly Karen Mitchell Allmond.

Dates: Created: 1982; Other: Date acquired: 03/13/2019

Blount family papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: ARCHS-162
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of miscellaneous Blount family papers. Materials include correspondence, drawings, and publications.

Dates: Created: 1933, 1966, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/12/2019

Broad street photograph

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: ARCHS-188
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of a single photograph of Augusta Georgia's Broad Street, circa the early 1900s. It is mounted on paper board, and includes a pink printed label on the back of the item, which reads: "general views in and about Augusta, Georgia: Instantaneous view of Broad St and the Monument, photographed by the Augusta Art Gallery, H.C. Hall, manager. 712 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia."

Dates: Created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 02/11/2019

Camp Hancock panoramic photograph

 Collection — photograph
Identifier: ARCHS-124
Dates: Other: Dummy Date

Cashin and Robertson illustrations

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-092
Scope and Contents

Lino Blocks for Augusta and American Revolution by Cashin and Robertson, as well as etchings on glass and metal. Linoleum blocks were designed and cut by William Haynes for the book, Augusta and the American Revolution.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 00/12/1983

Charles Edgeworth Jones papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: ARCHS-155
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of one folder of the papers of Charles Edgeworth Jones. Collection materials include correspondence, and genealogy research that Jones conducted.

Dates: Created: 1915-1929; Other: Date acquired: 03/12/2019

Charles Jones Jenkins papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-147
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises of correspondence, financial and estate records, court case transcripts, and miscellaneous materials that document the life of Charles Jones Jenkins, former Attorney General and Govenor of Georgia during the Confederacy. Collection primarily consists of materials ranging between 1856 and 1879, with most materails covering the latter half of Jenkins' life until his death in 1883.

Dates: Created: 1856-1879; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2019

Chloe Peebles diploma

 Collection — 1 item
Identifier: ARCHS-135
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of the single Tubman High School diploma of Chole Peebles.

Dates: Created: 1934; Other: Date acquired: 02/21/2017

Church of the Atonement records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ARCHS-097
Abstract

Two registers belonging to the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. These registers cover baptismal dates, confirmation dates and marriages

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 00/12/1983

Clinch Rifle records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ARCHS-067
Overview

A collection of records documenting the history and operations of the Clinch Rifle Company, a confederate militia during the civil war. Contains meeting minutes, administrative papers, and member lists.

Dates: Created: 1851-1926; Acquired: 1980

Constitution signers reproductions

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-091
Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of 32 black and white photographs of paintings of the signers of the constitution.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 00/12/1983

Daily Evening News

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: ARCHS-075
Scope and Contents

The news paper was published daily April 20- May 11, 1865 in the office of Macon Telegraph while that paper was suspended. These two issues announce the surrender of Lee and his army (25 April and the assassination of Licoln (26 April). There are announcements of regulations by the military to the citizens, and outher news advertisements.

Dates: Created: 1865; Other: Date acquired: 03/23/1982

David Meyer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ARCHS-003
Abstract

A Collection of financial, estate, and general personal materials documenting the estate and life of David Meyer. Also includees slave ownership documentation.

Dates: Created: 1846-1900; Other: Date acquired: 02/14/1978

DEACCESSIONED-MOVED TO ARCHS 004

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: ARCHS-016
Overview

A financial ledger from an unknown business/merchant in the Augusta area between the years of 1842-1852 and 1873.

Dates: Created: 1842-1852,1873; Other: Date acquired: 02/15/1979

DECOMISSIONED

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: ARCHS-035
Scope and Contents

Augusta-based court docket that contains common law, equity, appeal, motion, Garnishes, Claims & Illegality Courts. From 1869-1870.

Dates: Created: 1869-1870; Other: Date acquired: 02/22/1979

DECOMISSIONED

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: ARCHS-047
Scope and Contents

A City of Augusta court docket that documents criminal cases, dates, and actions of the court.

Dates: Created: 1893-1894; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1978

DECOMMISSIONED

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: ARCHS-022
Overview

A correspondence-based business ledger documenting the business affairs of the Savannah-based Allan Colquhoun & Brymer business, shipping goods such as cotton, tobacco, and produce.

Dates: Created: 1796-1800; Acquired: 1977-10-25