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Athens, Ga. social and cultural events collection, 1860-1947.

Title: Athens, Ga. social and cultural events collection, 1860-1947.

The collection consists of letters, programs, and invitations pertaining to Athens, Ga. and the University of Georgia. Some items include an invitation to the wedding of Richard B. Russell and Ina Dillard, an invitation to the wedding of John Wallis Brumby and Belle Hardeman, an invitation to the wedding of Henry W. Grady and Julia King, commencement programs for the University of Georgia (1873 and 1947), and a copy of Where the south leads and where Georgia leads by Mildred Lewis Rutherford.

ArchivalResource: 42 items (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/264793861 View

Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) collection, 1859-1926 (bulk 1924-1926).

Title: Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) collection, 1859-1926 (bulk 1924-1926).

The collection consists of materials relating to the Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) from 1859-1926. The materials consist of correspondence, programs, invitations, and printed material. The bulk of the correspondence (1924-1926) is between Lamar B. Lipscomb, Mildred Rutherford, and Hoke Smith concerning securing an endowment for the school to keep its independence and not become a part of the University of Georgia.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477285 View

Seydell, Mildred, 1889-1988. Mildred Seydell papers, 1842-1978.

Title: Mildred Seydell papers, 1842-1978.

Correspondence, writings, source materials for columns and articles, scrapbooks, memorabilia, clippings, and photos, relating chiefly to Seydell's career as columnist for Atlanta Georgian (1924-1939) and subsequently as editor and publisher of her own bi-weekly newspaper, The Think Tank (1941-1947), which featured inspirational items and women's news; together with papers of her aunt, Lamar Rutherford Lipscomb (d. 1957), who was active in Democratic politics in the 1920s and 1930s, and her great-aunt, Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1852-1928), director of Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Ga., and author of essays on Southern history and literature. Topics include Seydell's investigation of crime and criminal rehabilitation in U.S. and Europe, publication of her book Secret Fathers (1930), a novel about eugenic babies, visits to Hollywood in the 1930s, National Woman's Party, and various business and professional women's organizations. Correspondents include Ellis Gibbs Arnall, Alben William Barkley, Martha Berry, William F. Bigelow, Gutzon Borglum, Arthur Brisbane, Bennett Cerf, Clarence Darrow, Walter F. George, Grover C. Hall, William Berry Hartsfield, William Randolph Hearst, Alma Lutz, Robert Foster Maddox, Avery Means (describing a soldier's life in New Guinea during World War II), H.L. Mencken, Margaret Mitchell, Passie Fenton Ottley, Ruth Bryan Owen, Alice Paul, Julia Mood Peterkin, Micheline Resco (concerning Gen. John J. Pershing), Richard B. Russell, John M. Slaton, Eugene Talmadge, Herman E. Talmadge, Walter Winchell, Nell Hodgson Woodruff, Robert W. Woodruff, and Emily Woodward.

ArchivalResource: 67.5 linear ft. (150 boxes and 47 oversized papers (OP))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173863345 View

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928. Stone Mountain materials.

Title: Stone Mountain materials.

The collection consists of items concerning Stone Mountain which were removed from the Georgia Room vertical file because they were manuscript materials or early booklets, articles, and two engravings which needed more protection than the vertical file provides. Some materials were by Mildred Rutherford and had apparently been in the Mildred Rutherford papers at some point before they were removed to the vertical file.

ArchivalResource: 35 items (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432089208 View

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928. Mildred Lewis Rutherford scrapbooks, [ca. 1858-1930].

Title: Mildred Lewis Rutherford scrapbooks, [ca. 1858-1930].

The collection consists of scrapbooks of Mildred Lewis Rutherford from ca. 1858-1930. Two scrapbooks (1858-1908 and 1896-1901) pertain to the Lucy Cobb Institute and contain clippings, programs, printed material, handbooks, correspondence, and copies of the MESSENGER, a publication of the Institute. The other scrapbooks contain mainly clippings documenting current events in Georgia including information on the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476616 View

McWilliams, Joel W. Sons of Confederate Veterans collection, 1913-1980.

Title: Sons of Confederate Veterans collection, 1913-1980.

Includes correspondence, poems, articles, postcards, invitations, programs, lists of members, bylaws, applications, and other papers. Includes files of Joel W. McWilliams, comander of the Louisiana Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, bylaws of the Ku Klux Klan of Monore, La., and correspondence from the Union Central Life Insurance Company and Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. Other persons represented include Mildred Lewis Rutherford.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70962805 View

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928. Postcard album, approximately 1900-1928.

Title: Postcard album, approximately 1900-1928.

The collection consists of an album made up of postcards Miss Rutherford received from friends when they were traveling. Many of the cards have been removed.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317079057 View

Civil War Miscellaneous Collection

Title: Civil War Miscellaneous Collection

The Civil War Miscellaneous Collection, 1860-2005 (bulk 1862-1928), consists of one box of materials related to the Civil War. This is an assembled collection, and the order of materials has been imposed by the archivist from the original unordered arrangement. Civil War records included in the collection consist of muster rolls from the years 1862-1865, certificates of discharge and pension, lists of veterans, and lists of applicants and recipients of the Southern Cross of Honor from the years 1860-1926. Most of these records pertain to Confederate companies and individuals from Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, but there are also a few records related to companies and soldiers within the Union Army. Other materials include personal letters from Civil War soldiers giving views of camp life and activities in and around Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, writings by local historian John W. Wayland, twentieth century newspaper clippings relating to the Civil War, letters and poetry by Cassie Moncure Lyne, materials relating to Harrisonburg Civil War museums and monuments, and late nineteenth and early twentieth century bulletins and pamphlets about the Civil War. Please note that not all dates are inclusive.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 cubic feet (1 box)

https://aspace.lib.jmu.edu/repositories/4/resources/280 View

Callaway, James. Callaway papers, 1860-1917.

Title: Callaway papers, 1860-1917.

The Callaway papers consist of seven items dating from 1860 to 1923. The first three items are albums with newspaper clippings and some letters. The next three items are publications related to Wilkes County and the Confederacy. The last item is a photocopy of typewritten recollections of plantation life in Wilkes County during Reconstruction.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (including 3 albums)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47166234 View

United Daughters of the Confederacy. Laura Rutherford Chapter (Athens, Ga.). Laura Rutherford Chapter (Athens, Ga.) records, 1895-1948.

Title: Laura Rutherford Chapter (Athens, Ga.) records, 1895-1948.

The collection consists of records of the Laura Rutherford Chapter (Athens, Ga.) of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 1895-1948. Includes scrapbooks (1928-1958, with gaps), writings and speeches of Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Cross of Honor applications and recipients, a dues ledger (1921-1926), and a few minutes (1913-1929, 1934-1936). The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, brochures, programs, and memorabilia relating to the activities of the organization and the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38478270 View

Papers

Title: Papers

Correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings concerning the writing and publication, under Hart's direction, of Marion G. McDougall's book, Fugitive slaves (1891); the inaccuracies of a speech delivered by Julian S. Carr, of Durham, N.C., at Washington and Lee College in 1916; and an academic debate (1919-1924) between Hart and Lyon Gardiner Tyler, of the College of William and Mary, on the founding of the United States and on various aspects of the Civil War. Correspondents include Henry Nichols Blake, Ginn and Co., Mildred Lewis Rutherford, and Anna Boynton Thompson.

ArchivalResource: 108 items.

https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000856876 View

Friends of Lucy Cobb manuscript collection, 1892-1919.

Title: Friends of Lucy Cobb manuscript collection, 1892-1919.

The collection consists of materials collected by "friends" from former students at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia. Included is a diary of Edna Pope from 1893, 2 letters, a card, and a photo of Pope; editions of "Nods and Becks" from 1900-1902; a diploma to Queen Elizabeth Holden dated 2 June 1919; six issues of "The Lightning Bug" from November and December 1925 and January-May of 1926 and a bound notebook that supposedly belonged to Montine Shackelford with comings and goings at Lucy Cobb and writings circa 1894. The collection also includes letters from Mildred Rutherford along with letters and writings from other Lucy Cobb Institute students.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432042427 View

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928. Mildred Lewis Rutherford papers, 1883-1930.

Title: Mildred Lewis Rutherford papers, 1883-1930.

The collection consists of papers of Mildred Lewis Rutherford from 1883-1930. The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, and clippings documenting Rutherford's activities as principal of the Lucy Cobb Institute (1880-1920), historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) (1911-1916), the Children of the Confederacy, and with the Georgia Division of the UDC.

ArchivalResource: 2.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476449 View

Butler, Mary Lucas, -1967. Mary Lucas Butler Collection, 1833-1966.

Title: Mary Lucas Butler Collection, 1833-1966.

A large portion of this collection consists of papers written about, or by, Fred Lucas and his sister Mary Lucas Butler. These papers include biographical information of Fred Lucas and college research papers (including one on the Treaty of Versailles) written by Mary Lucas. Poetry and book reviews on Mildred Lewis Rutherford's books are also part of this collection. A particular part of the collection includes biographical and genealogical materials about Madame Sophie Sosnowski, an immigrant to Georgia from Poland. These papers were collected and given to Mary Lucas Butler.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear feet (1/2 document case)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212414539 View

United Daughters of the Confederacy. Middleburg Chapter (Middleburg, Va.). Records, 1861-1951 (bulk 1908-1951).

Title: Records, 1861-1951 (bulk 1908-1951).

Minutes of chapter meetings as well as of conventions of the national organization and Virginia Division; addresses (1912-1916) of Mildred Lewis Rutherford; constitution and bylaws of the Mary Custis Lee-17th Virginia Regiment Chapter; Southern Cross of Honor eligibility papers; and program; together with an account book (1861-1883) having no readily apparent connection to the collection.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954445 View

Rutherford, Mildred Lewis, 1852-1928. Athens pamphlet collection, circa 1906-195u.

Title: Athens pamphlet collection, circa 1906-195u.

The collection consists of clippings and pamphlets regarding the Lucy Cobb Institute, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Athens, the University of Georgia, Georgia, and the South in general.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1.0 linear ft.), 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318913990 View

Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association. Papers, 1916-1927.

Title: Papers, 1916-1927.

Papers of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association (S.M.C.M.A.) relating to plans for making Stone Mountain into a monument to the Confederate States of America; the controversy over the dismissal of sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and his replacement by Augustus Lukeman; alleged mismanagement of funds by the S.M.C.M.A; and efforts to prevent Stone Mountain from reverting to the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.); and related poems, pamphlets, and other material issued or written by D.M. Armstrong, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Mary (Sledge) Wright, the S.M.C.M.A., and others concerning plans for the memorial and the reasons for the dismissal of Borglum.

ArchivalResource: 44 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20400353 View