Macon (Ga.)

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.