Bethesda Home for Boys (Savannah, Ga.) records, 1871-1976 (bulk 1915-1945).

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Bethesda Home for Boys (Savannah, Ga.) records, 1871-1976 (bulk 1915-1945).

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The collections consists materials related to the Bethesda Home for Boys in Savannah, Georgia from 1871-1976. The materials include letters, diaries, a journal, a scrapbook, clippings, a report, printed materials, visual materials, and a broadside. The bulk of the material is dated from 1915-1945. Letters (ca. 1920s - 1945) are Burroughs's and relate to the Rotary and Cosmos clubs, Telfair Academy, and South Georgia Teachers College (now Georgia Teachers College); some are from Mrs. A.R. Lawton (Ella B. Lawton). Diaries (1915-1945) were compiled by Burroughs and the journal (1871-1876) was kept by Superintendent Quarterman. Report is of the Committee on Conditions at Bethesda (1915). The scrapbook was kept by Mrs. O.W. Burroughs and contains clippings related to the school; printed material includes copies of the BETHESDA NEWS, clippings on the school, and clippings on George Whitefield; visual materials include images of the original Bethesda and Christmas celebrations; the broadside was produced by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America.

.75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper (OP) and 5 microfilm (MF))

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6812469

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Whitefield, George, 1714-1770

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 34068 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fb Epithet: Reverend; Preacher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fc Methodist clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1750-1759. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504475 Clergyman and evangelist. ...

Bethesda Home for Boys (Savannah, Ga.)

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The Bethesda Home for Boys was founded in Savannah, Georgia, in 1740, by Reverend George Whitefield. It suffered three fires before it was sold (1805) and rebuilt (1854) on land donated by the Union Society. It has been known as "Whitefield's House of Mercy," the Orphan House Estate, Bethesda College, the Bethesda Orphan House (1902), Bethesda Orphan Asylum, the Bethesda School for Boys, and Bethesda Orphanage. Ole W. Burroughs was the school's director, 1915-1945. A Mr. Quarterman was superinte...

Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)

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Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences Architectural Records Committee was established in 1945 to prepared measured drawings of historic houses in Savannah, to obtain as many existing original plans or measured drawings of early houses as possible, and to collect as many photographs as possible of early houses. The Committee collected some original architectural plans, prepared measured drawings of others, and obtained copies of some of the measured drawing of Savannah buildings which had been...

Burroughs, Ole W.

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South Georgia Teachers College

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National Association of Rotary Clubs of America

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Lawton, Ella Beckwith, 1860-1949.

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