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Moore's Ford Memorial Committee collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-12
Collection number: MSS-061
Overview

The collection pertains to the Moore’s Ford Memorial Committee, which operated in Clarke, Oconee, and Walton counties from 1997 to 2004 in response to renewed interest in the 1946 Moore’s Ford lynching. The collection contains meeting minutes and agendas that detail Committee efforts such as annual scholarships and a memorial service for the victims of the lynching; and documents pertaining to the Georgia Historical Society marker at the location of the lynching.

Dates: 1992-2004; Majority of material found within 1997-2003

Athens Historical Society collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-062
Overview

Periodicals and other publications of the Athens Historical Society.

Dates: 1963-2017

Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-063
Overview

Publications and other documents pertaining to the public activities of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation, founded in 1967 and renamed Historic Athens in 2019.

Dates: 1971-2019

Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society (COGS) collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-064
Overview

Newsletters of the Clarke-Oconee Genealogical Society and other materials to be added.

Dates: 1987-1996

Collection of promotional hand fans for Athens funeral and ambulance services

 Collection — Box: 1
Collection number: MSS-065
Overview

Ten hand fans from the early Twentieth Century, bearing illustrations and advertisements, all coming from local funeral homes/ambulance services: Mack & Payne Funderal Directors, McDorman-Bridges Ambulance Service, and the Morton Funeral Home.

Dates: c. 1900-c. 1920

Collection of Athens cookbooks and recipes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-066
Overview

This collection mostly contains cookbooks published by local organizations featuring recipes from amateur chefs.

Dates: 1929-2016

United Daughters of the Confederacy yearbooks

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-3
Collection number: MSS-067
Overview

Yearbooks published by the Laura Rutherford Chapter of the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Dates: 1937-1999

Records of the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Collection number: MSS-068
Overview

The records of the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History includes minutes, flyers, the charter, and photographs. This is an ongoing collection.

Dates: 2017-2020

Al Hester papers

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-069
Overview Research files of Al Hester, a professor of journalism at the University of Georgia who later in his life wrote extensively on Athens history. The files pertain to the planning and writing of three books: Enduring Legacy: Clarke County Georgia's Ex-Slave Legislators Madison Davis and Alfred Richardson; Putting On Blue: Confederates from the Athens, Georgia, Area Who Became Galvanized Yankees; and Athens Memories: The W.P.A. Federal Writers’ Project Interviews; and related historical topics....
Dates: 1980-2017; Majority of material found within 1998-2017

Jennie L. Mattox collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Collection number: MSS-070
Overview

Items donated by the family of Jennie L. Mattox commemorating her work for the community.

Dates: 2019

Dillard Family collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Collection number: MSS-071
Overview

A self-published book on the history of the Dillard Family of Athens, Georgia; in addition to audio and text copies of an interview with Frederick Dillard and documentation related to that oral history.

Dates: 2014-2015

Athens-Clarke County Recordings and Oral Histories collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-072
Dates: 1976-2003

Athens ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-073
Overview A sort of companion to the Small collections (MSS 016) and the vertical files, this collection houses objects that both do not belong elsewhere in the Heritage Room manuscripts and archives and fit the definition of the term, ephemera, as used in the fields of antiques and collectables. Ephemera can be found in other Heritage Room collections, especially the collection of promotional hand fans for Athens funeral and ambulance services (MSS 065) and the J. Tanner collection of Clarke Central...
Dates: ca. 1950-2008

Conoly Hester papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-074
Overview

Journalist Conoly Hester’s research files, containing clippings of articles authored by her and accompanying printed materials.

Dates: 1971-2017

Athens-Clarke Safe Cycling Association collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-8
Collection number: MSS-075
Overview

Documents concerning the organization’s goal of making cities safe for cyclists, including internal records, pamphlets on bicycle safety, and maps of cities for cyclists. Some records were not created by the organization, but used as reference material.

Dates: 1974-1990

Alec Little Environmental Award collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-076
Overview

Records, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the presentation of the Alec Little Environmental Award.

Dates: 1992-2018

Kiwanis Club collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-077
Dates: Majority of material found within 1983-2015

Clarke Central athletics collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-080
Overview

Programs sold at Clarke Central football games and related documents spanning a half-century.

Dates: 1970-2019

Rosa von der Lieth quilt

 Collection — Box: 1
Collection number: MSS-081
Content Description

There are two pieces to this collection, the quilt and the newspaper article. The quilt was completed in 1899 in a process that took several months. The quilt is red in coloration with white stars and wheels. The wheels and stars have a total of 800 signatures from famous and local figures. The quilt is 93in by 79in long. The newspaper article is from November 28th, 1963, from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. It was written by Doris Lockerman.

Dates: February 15th, 1898; November 28, 1963

Chase Street Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-085
Overview

A collection of scrapbooks covering the history of the Chase Street Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization and the Athens City and Clarke County Education Associations from 1926-2015. The scrapbooks house pictures, news clippings, member lists, and meeting minutes for the two organizations.

Dates: 1926 - 2015

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Long, Crawford Williamson, 1815-1878 2
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Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 1
Beusse, Henry W., 1869-1932 1
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Carnegie libraries 1
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Classic Center (Athens, Ga.) 1
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Confederate States of America 1
Constitution Week (U.S.) 1
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Cotton Exchange Building (Athens, Ga.) 1
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Cushman, Mary Anne Ponds Braswell, 1922-2006 1
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Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898 1
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Fickett, Richard Nathanial , 1905-1998 2
Holder, H. Randolph (Howard Randolph), 1916-2002 2
Marshall, George O., 1922-2012 2
(Baldwin) Turnell, June, 1932-2019 1
Aaron, George 1
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Aaron, Hubert, 1923-2014 1
Alford, James H., Jr., b. 1940 1
Allen, Walter, Sr., b. 1930 1
Ansley, William, Col. 1
Antley, William, 1921-2003 1
Arnball, Anders K. 1
Athens-Clarke County Library 1
Athens-Clarke Safe Cycling Association (Athens, Ga.) 1
Atherton, John "Jack" M. 1
Ayers, Jere, 1914-2005 1
Bentley, Upshaw C., Jr., 1924-2013 1
Beusse, Lena, 1886-1969 1
Billups, Stepney "Step", 1924-2016 1
Bondurant, John Parnell, II, 1907-2002 1
Bonner, Caroline Bennett, 1918-2005 1
Bonner, William Herbert, 1919-2005 1
Bowers, Mary Stark, 1914-2000 1
Brown, Hugh, 1927-2004 1
Brown, Robert Henry 1
Bryan, Ellen Hillyer Newell Bryan, 1904-1998 1
Bundy, Frank, b. 1923 1
Carlisle, Olivia B., 1918-2014 1
Carter, Charles W., 1925-2017 1
Childs, Rex Elijah, 1921-2011 1
Clark, Louie Maxwell, Sr., 1924-2014 1
Clute, Robert Eugene , Dr., 1924-2011 1
Cofer, Hal Lewis, Jr., b. 1927 1
Colegrove, Susan 1
Cook, Eugene "Gene" D., 1921-2005 1
Cook, Mozelle, 1925-2010 1
Corrigan, James T. 1
Crawford, Virginia Hale, 1932-2020 1
Crow, Harold Murphy, Sr., 1923-2008 1
David, William Edward, Dr., 1925-2019 1
Davis, John, Dr., b. 1944 1
Davis, Sam Talmadge, 1919-2020 1
Devore, T.C. (Theodore Carroll), 1924-2006 1
Downs, Edward Hodgson, 1912-1999 1
Downs, Jeanne Mealor McCommon, 1913-2008 1
Dunning, Robert "Bob" C., 1921-2011 1
Dupree, LaGrange Cothran Trussell, 1920-2011 1
Durham, LaRamon, 1924-2007 1
Durham, Phyllis 1
Easom, Maxine P., b. 1945 1
Edinger, Fred, 1919-2010 1
Ellis, Edna Ward, 1920-2017 1
Erwin, Goodloe Yancey, Dr., 1919-2013 1
Fanning, J.W. 1
Fickett, Amanda, 1911-2007 1
Finn, Lola, b. 1931 1
Firor, David, Lt. Col., 1924-2000 1
Firor, Dorothy "Dot" Elizabeth Holcombe, 1915-2007 1
Fletcher, William H. 1
Flynt, Evelyn Brown 1
Flynt, Max Sidney, Jr., 1910-1999 1
Ford, Delores 1
Forrester, Harold 1
Fowler, Hugh, d. 2000 1
Fuller, Henry Lester, 1916-2014 1
Gatschell, Roswell L. "Roy", 1913-1999 1
Griffith, Louis, 1918-2005 1
Grimes, Millard, b. 1930 1
Harris, William Thomas , 1921-2015 1
Hartford, James, Col., Jr., 1918-2001 1
Hartman, Bill, 1915-2006 1
Hawkins, Forrest Grady, Deacon, 1937-2020 1
Hollingsworth, Mary Elizabeth Nix, 1915-2015 1
Hoopes, Edwin, Jr. 1
Hudson, Sandra "Sandy" Strother 1
Hudson, William E., d. 2008 1
Johnson, Alfred "Al" Amandus, 1925-2005 1
Johnson, Lacy L. 1
Jones, David Hamilton, b. 1946 1
Kelley, James W. 1
Kershaw, Steve 1
Killian, Archibald R., Reverend, 1933-2016 1
King, Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Primrose Parry, 1926-2008 1
King, William Dabney, 1923-2012 1
Kreuz, Mary Lynn Moore, 1923-2014 1
Lang, Thomas F. , 1928-2014 1
Laster, Arleen (Gertrude Arleen), 1920-2020 1
Leathers, Milton, b. 1946 1
Lieth, Rosa von der, 1850-1925 1
Loden, Harold Dickson, Dr., 1918-2001 1
Lumpkin, Ben (Benjamin E.), 1926-2015 1
Massey, Dwight 1
Mauldin, Archie Thomas "A.T.", 1908-2004 1
Maxwell, Robert "Bob" W., 1928-2007 1
McAlexander, Hubert Horton 1
McClure, Dan, 1948-2020 1
McEntire, James, Sr., 1921-2014 1
McEntire, Jennie Smith (Jennie Mae (Jane)), 1923-2011 1
McPherson, John Hanson Thomas, Dr., Jr., 1917-2001 1
Meyer, Joseph Thomas , Jr. 1
Montgomery, Dorothy Carlisle, 1928-2016 1
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