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Macon (Ga.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Abner H. Tippett Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0127
Scope and Contents

The Tippett Papers are divided into six sections, which were removed from a notebook. All relate to Southern Baptist church organizations and activities. Materials are primarily related to Sunday School and Training Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s and include materials for teachers, lesson outlines, attendance contests, and information on enlargement campaigns.

Dates: 1956-1968

Bridges Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0113
Scope and Contents

The Bridges Smith collection includes 117 illustrated envelopes postmarked between 1894 and 1917 and mailed by family, business associates, and friends. A small amount of correspondence dates into the early 1920s and is a mixture of business and pleasure in subject matter. Smith was related to Miss Sallie Boone, Mercer Librarian (1904-1934) and Librarian Emeritus (1934-1951).

Dates: 1894-1917

Capricorn Studios Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-MU-0002
Scope and Contents

The Capricorn Studios Collection is made up of audio and video cassettes, CDs, posters, T-shirts, and office files, from Capricorn Studios, all from the 1970s- 1990s.

Dates: 1970s-1990s

Helen Shaw Harrold Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0174
Scope and Contents

The Helen Shaw Harrold Papers contains one scrapbook compiled by Helen Shaw Harrold, documenting the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1915-1916. Pages are loose, no longer bound. The scrapbook contains news clippings, publications, by-laws and documents, and personal letters and notes. Contents are in the order in which Ms. Shaw compiled them.

Dates: 1915

Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0072
Scope and Contents

The Manuscript Collection contains correspondence, essays, journals, notes, receipts, and other documents from multiple creators, arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the letters have transcriptions; a few are photocopies.

Dates: 1800-2000

Rollin and Mary Anne Armour Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0185
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of five series. Series 1 contains a small amount of papers related to the personal lives of the Armour Family. Series 2 contains course materials, research, notes, and correspondence from the academic and theological career of Rollin Armour. Series 3 contains articles, worksheets, and research from the counseling career of Mary Anne Armour. Series 4 contains correspondence, papers, and business materials from the Georgia Children’s Home. Series 5 contains planning...
Dates: 1960-2009

Shelton P. Sanford Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0111
Scope and Contents The Sanford collection consists of papers of Shelton Palmer Sanford from 1845-1865 and 1878. The papers include a diary (1878) and account book (1845-1865). The diary discusses day-to-day activities, including the weather, travel, classes taught, and religious and social life in Macon, Georgia. The account book details Sanford’s personal finances (1845-1856) and his account with Georgia Baptist Convention Treasurer Thomas J. Burney for tuition, room, and board for a number of students at...
Dates: 1839-1891

Willena Sherwood Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0112
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an album of friendship belonging to Willena Sherwood, in which friends wrote notes or poetry to Sherwood from 1863-1869. The collection also contains photocopies of records pertaining to Sherwood and her family, supplied by the Washington Memorial Library.

Dates: 1860s

William H. Kilpatrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0063
Scope and Contents The William H. Kilpatrick Collection of consists of papers of William Heard Kilpatrick from 1875, 1889-1969. The papers include clippings, correspondence, class notes, lectures, printed material, sermon notes, speeches, radio scripts, and Kilpatrick’s writings on progressive education. The correspondence (1875, 1890-1965) includes personal and business letters relating to Kilpatrick’s publications and teaching careers at Mercer University and Columbia University, as well as his views on...
Dates: 1885-1977