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Axley, Lowry, ca. 1890-1960. Savannah Writers' Conference papers, 1938-1940.

Title: Savannah Writers' Conference papers, 1938-1940.

This collection consists of Lowry Axley's correspondence and other papers related to the Savannah Writers' Conference. Correspondents include: John P. Dyer, Edith D. Johnston, John Peale Bishop, Ernest A. Lowe, Henry F. Meyer, Allen Tate, George Stevens, Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Mabel C. Pollard, Anne D. Jones, Stark Young, John Peale Bishop, Grace Hall Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Andrew Lytle, Frank P. Graham, Paul Green, George Stevens, Joseph Brewer Frederick H. Koch, Mary Ellington Mrs. Rosser H. Kaylor, Grace Hall Hemingway, Betty Myers, Vereen Bell, Buford Johnson, Virginia Tanner, Attie Camp, William S. Long, Dubose Heyward, Herbert L. Kayton, Anderson M. Scruggs, Margaret Curtis, Daisy Mae Roberts, and James Irwin Wallace. In addition to correspondence, the collection includes a cash book, programs, clippings and press releases, photographs and silhouettes of the staff, addresses of the conference staff for the Poetry Society of Georgia, and planning and arrangements lists.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.50 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137281845 View

Savannah-Chatham County World War II Memorial Association, Inc. (Ga.). Planning Committee. Savannah-Chatham County World War II Memorial Association, Inc., Planning Committee records, 1947-1955.

Title: Savannah-Chatham County World War II Memorial Association, Inc., Planning Committee records, 1947-1955.

This collection consists of papers collected by Lowry Axley as Chairman of the Review and Planning Committee of the Savannah-Chatham County World War Memorial Association, Inc. Included are the minutes of the committee, 1947-1948, the committee's by=laws, names of the committee members, correspondence, 1947-1951, letters addressed to the mayor of Savannah and to the Association containing memorial suggestions, 1945-1948, clippings, radio talks, pamphlets, and sketches of memorials. Also included is a Savannah Hospital Survey, 1948.

ArchivalResource: 13 folders (.35 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/126884276 View

Axley, Lowry, c. 1890-1960. Lowry Axley papers, 1910-1956.

Title: Lowry Axley papers, 1910-1956.

This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles and papers written by Lowry Axley, and photographs and silhouettes. They contain information relating to school matters, World War I and II, and the Junior College movement that led to the creation of Armstrong Junior College in Savannah, Georgia. The visual materials were previously extracted and cataloged separately from the collection.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.25 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77536218 View

Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society. Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society collection on the Irene Mound, 1936-1940.

Title: Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society collection on the Irene Mound, 1936-1940.

This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Dolores and Marmaduke Floyd pertaining to the publication of Mrs. Floyd's pamphlet, "New Yamacraw and the Indian Mound Irene," published in compliment to the archaeological excavation at the Irene Mound site, a Works Progress Administration Project (WPA) undertaken between September 1937 and January 1940. This site location was approximately 4.3 miles west of the intersection of Bull and Broughton Streets in Savannah, Georgia, at the confluence of Pipemaker's Canal and the Savannah River. Primary correspondence content pertains to arrangements of the pamphlet's debut at the 1938 Society of Georgia Archaeologists meeting, as well as letters of submission and acceptance for the pamphlet's dissemination to a variety of library facilities. Additional correspondence content includes matters of translations performed by Lucy Wenhold of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on original Spanish documents pertinent to Irene Mound's original use. Letters are also present addressing specific comments on the Irene Mound dig management and staffing. Other documents include a published copy of the pamphlet, personal reminiscence of Dolores Floyd relating to the pamphlet's publication, personal reminiscence of Joseph Waring concerning youthful escapades on the Irene Mound site, excavation reports submitted by Preston Holder (the 1937 Archaeologist in Charge), assistant J.R. Caldwell, and Vladimir J. Fewkes (1938 Archaeologist in Charge). Not all of these reports are complete. Also present are translations and undated correspondence. The dated correspondence is arranged chronologically . Undated correspondence is foldered separately, as are the translations, excavation reports, pamphlet, and reminiscence. Also included in the collection are photographs of the mound at various stages of excavation, from a distance and in detail. Additionally, there are many pictures of W.P.A. employed African-American women working at the site. Also included are photographs of the Archaeologist in Charge, Vladimir J. Fewkes, and company touring the site. Items of special interest include images illustrating the excavation of skeletal remains and Miss Bessie Lewis' Darien High School senior class visiting the site. There are also some Floyd family pictures. Both Marmaduke Floyd and Lowry Axley are credited with photographs in this collection. Many of the images are duplicated. Items 1-174 are black and white 3"x5" images that recount activity at the archaeological excavation at the Irene Mound Site Items 175-248 are black and white contact sheet strips. Items 175-211 are attached to pieces of paper that are annotated with the date and information about what is taking place in the photographs. Some annotations include the photographs' names. The author of the annotations was most likely Dolores B. Floyd. Some of the photographs on the contact sheets are representative of the prints in items 1-174; however, many are not duplicated elsewhere in the collection. Items 212-248 are loose contact sheet strips. Some of these are annotated on the back, though most are not. Items 249-259 are loose black and white photographs of various sizes that are annotated on the back. Photographs are arranged in the following subject categories: general views of the site; detail images of excavated earth; skeletal remains in ground; skeletal remains unearthed; Fewkes and company touring site; W.P.A. workers at site; students visit to site; Floyd family images; annotated contact sheets; loose contact sheets; and miscellaneous annotated photographs. The Floyd family images include a few generally scenic shots as well as an image of Lowry Axley with camera in hand. The box containing visual materials is noted as "VM" in the collection inventory.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 2 folders (.75 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57402383 View

Lowry Axley photographs : visual images, no date.

Title: Lowry Axley photographs : visual images, no date.

This collection consists of 17 folders of photographs and silhouettes. An internal index to these photographs is included in the finding aid for collection, MS 35.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44115442 View

Axley, Lowry, ca. 1890-1960. Lowry Axley papers, 1910-1956.

Title: Lowry Axley papers, 1910-1956.

This collection consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, articles and papers written by Lowry Axley. They contain information relating to school matters, World War I and II and the Junior College movement that led to the creation of Armstrong Junior College in Savannah, Georgia. An internal index to these papers is located in the finding aid in the repository.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477556 View