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Georgia Power Company collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-2
Collection number: MSS-001
Overview

The Georgia Power Company is an electric utility headquartered in Atlanta. This collection contains company periodicals, publications targeted at homemakers, and miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1930-1967

Charles A. Rowland IV collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-002
Overview

Charles A. Rowland IV was a local historian, antique appraiser and historic preservationist. He was involved with zoning and neighborhood preservation issues. Mr. Rowland passed away in 2006 and his daughter donated all materials to the ACCL Heritage Room.

Dates: ca. 1825-2005; Majority of material found within 1880-2005

State Normal School and Navy Supply Corps School collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-007
Overview

Photographs, student and classroom materials, clippings, administrative materials, and other documents from the Georgia State Normal School (later renamed the Georgia State Teachers College) and the Navy School Supply Corps School; in addition, documents from the Navy Supply Corps School Local Redevelopment Authority, including complete copies of proposals for reuse of the property upon the closure of the Navy School.

Dates: 1899-2010

Georgia postcard collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Object: 1-80
Collection number: MSS-023
Overview

Postcards depicting buildings and scenes in Athens and other Georgian communities.

Dates: ca. 1930-ca. 2000

Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library Referendum collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-030
Overview

The Friends of the Athens-Clarke County Library is a 501c(3) group non-profit organization that benefits the Athens-Clarke County library system. The Athens-Clarke County Library was included on the Special Option sales tax referendum in 1988, which the Friends of the Library supported through public programs designed to encourage library patrons and Athens-Clarke residents to vote in favor of approving the referendum.

Dates: 1987-1989

Women's Auxiliary to the Medical Association of Clarke County collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-031
Overview

Meeting minutes, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to the Women's Auxiliary to the Medical Association of Clarke County. Several references to Crawford W. Long are included.

Dates: 1926-1941

Athens Area Retired Educators Association collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-039
Overview

Records, publications, directories, scrapbooks, and other materials pertaining to the Athens Area Retired Educators Association.

Dates: 1960-2015

Millie Dearing collection

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-040
Overview

This collection consists of a scrapbook kept by Mildred “Millie” Lyle Dearing describing her work with the Athens Art Association and the Georgia Museum of Art. Included in the scrapbook are newspaper clippings and other paper materials related to her own artistic endeavors, and her work with Athens Art and Georgia Museum of Art. This collection also includes photographs of Dearing from 1963 and an example of a wedding invitation she designed.

Dates: 1950-1965

Beusse Family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-041
Overview

Photographs, notebooks, correspondence, and miscellaneous other items from the Beusse Family, most of all Lena Beusse, wife of Henry W. Beusse, an Athens Chief of Police who was the son of Henry Beusse, a German immigrant who became a major political and commercial leader in Athens during the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1881-1959

Gayther Plummer collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-052
Overview

This collection mostly pertains to Gayther Plummer's work as a climatologist, including soil surveys, as well as two folders of materials relating to his work with the Georgia Heritage Trust.

Dates: 1901-1988; Majority of material found within 1959-1988

Dan McClure slides

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MSS-055
Overview

Slides of photographs taken by Dan McClure for local publications including Athens Magazine and as owner of McClure Studios.

Dates: 1970 - 1990

Towards a History of Athens collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Collection number: MSS-058
Overview

This collection apparently contains materials intended for a project entitled, Towards a History of Athens, Georgia. The provenance of the collection is uncertain. Given its small size, its original compiler may have intended to include other materials.

Dates: 1958

Ethel T. Chaffin papers

 Collection
Collection number: MSS-060
Overview

The collection contains materials donated by Athens resident Ethel T. Chaffin who earned a Master of Arts degree at the University of Georgia in dance and theatre history in 1982 and contributed heavily to the work of the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation. Includes her thesis notes and research on Athens theatrical history and preservation of local landmarks, including Seney-Stovall Chapel.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1979-1994; Majority of material found within 1967-2002

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

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

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

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