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Edison Marshall photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-278

Scope and Contents

Photographs of Edison Marshall’s family. Has a number of photographs that are probably of his grandchildren as babies.  Other material seems to document vacation travel

Dates

  • Other: Majority of material found in ca. late 19th to mid 20th century
  • Other: Date acquired: 12/03/2008

Biographical or Historical Information

Box of photographs labeled unknown Edison Marshall photographs. Transferred to Special Collections when it was discovered in Circulation in 2007.  It is reasonable to believe that it was acquired at the same time as the Edison Marshall Collections

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Extent

28.00 folders

223 snapshots 28 folders other_unmapped

Language

English

Arrangement Note

Folder 1 -  Older family photographs (9) Of interest here are two tintypes; one of a portrait of a man with a cigar, the other of two men and two women in formal dress, a picture; possibly of Edison Marshall at three or four years of age, two studio photographs of Edison Marshall possibly in his late teens or early twenties, a photograph of Edison Marshall’s birthplace inscribed on the back “The printing office the Rensselaer Republican; Vern, Lucile and I were born upstairs.  Also Aunt Jessie’s studio. (this may account for the family photographs bearing the Bartoo Studio’s imprint.  Marshall’s mother was a Bartoo and Aunt Jessie appears to have been a professional photographer), and a sheet with two photographs of a child named Jessie Hope with what may be a memorial poem written on the sheet. Folder 2 - Shot of Brookie and Marshall [grandchildren] (1) Inscription on back.  Brookie and Marshall meeting the Captain of the S. S.  Atlantic last summer Folder 3 - Personal pocket album Florida snapshots (19) Folder 4 - Post cards (15) Folder 5 - Color Snapshots (11) Folder 6 - Color snapshots of Richmond County, Georgia American Legion Post (4) Folder 7 - 5x7 group photographs (4) Folder 8 - Card of man with black German Shepherd (2) Folder 9 – photograph reproduction of [Marshall?] in uniform (2) Folder 10 – Interior shots of a museum (6) Folder 11 – Rehearsal for military ceremony (3) Folder 12 – Black and white shots of Richmond County, Georgia American Legion Post (2) Folder 13 – Ezekiel Harris House, Augusta Georgia (1) Folder 14 – Possible shots of Marshall home interior (4) Folder 15 – Possible shots of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall with unknown woman (3) Folder 16 – Travel snapshots (40) Folder 17 – shots of a bookcase (3) Folder 18 – Buildings (20) Folder 19 – commercial aircraft (3) Folder 20 – military aircraft (1) Folder 21 – two school age children at Christmas (4) Folder 22 – post card series of train wreck (11) Folder 23 – maid with child (2) Folder 24 – gathering in sun room (9) Folder 25 – shots of baby (5) Folder 26 – woman with officer (3) Folder 27 – girl in sun suit alone and with baby (13) Folder 28 – shots of individuals (23)

Source of Acquisition

Unknown

Method of Acquisition

This material was donated to Reese Library Special Collections, Augusta Univesity on 12/03/2008. Acc#2008.15

Title
Inventory of the Edison Marshall photographs
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the Reese Library Archives Repository

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