Overview

AU Health Sciences Alumni collection is comprised of various paper documents that once belonged to alumni from the Augusta University Health Sciences Campus.

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.

Scope and Contents This collection is composed of a single published volume of sheet music. The volume includes a book plate printed with the name "E. Phinery," and features two handwritten signatures of Eliza Phinery. The original volume is titled "Two Sonatas for the Piano Forte with an accompaniment for the flute or violin Op. 38," written by Daniel Steibelt, and printed and sold in Philadelphia by G. Willig's Musical Magazine. This volume was published in 1804. The collection also includes a number of...

Abstract

A Confederate Survivors Association scrapbook compiled by Francis Edgeworth Eve. Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other miscellaneous materials.

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of the single folder of miscellaneous ephemera related to the state of Georgia. Materials include: "Vote for G.W. Moulder" card (1929), sheet music for "Dear old Georgia!" (1921), and an issue of the Atlanta newspaper, The Sunday Gazette, dated September 7, 1879.