Rosa M.E. Williams Burroughs scrapbook, daguerreotypes, and paintings, ca. 1820-1939.

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Rosa M.E. Williams Burroughs scrapbook, daguerreotypes, and paintings, ca. 1820-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477678

This collection consists of a scrapbook kept by Rosa M.E. Burroughs and photographs. The scrapbook includes a watercolor still life by Firmin Cerveau, engravings of Oglethorpe College, and the capitol at Milledgeville. It is decorated with cut-out flowers and ornaments, sentimental poems on lace paper, and cut-out engravings of the U.S. Capitol and the White House. The photographs include two miniatures of Reverend Benjamin Burroughs and Rosa M.E. Williams Burroughs, three daguerreotypes of Burroughs family members, a photograph of Laura Williams Gibbs, and a watercolor of the U.S. Barracks at Savannah by M.J. Williams. The folders of photographs are noted as "VM" (visual materials) in the collection inventory.

1 volume, 4 folders (.55 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404365

Georgia Historical Society

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Burroughs, William, fl. 1855-1870.

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Burroughs, Benjamin, 1807-1854.

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Burroughs, Rosa M. E. Williams, 1809-1853.

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Rosa M. E. (Williams) Burroughs (1809-1853) was the daughter of Captain Richard F. Williams of Burnside Island, near Savannah, Georgia. Rosa married Reverend Benjamin Burroughs (1807-1854) on December 22, 1831. Benjamin, a Presbyterian minister, was the son of Benjamin Burroughs and Catherine (Eirick) Burroughs. Rosa and Benjamin were stationed in Milledgeville, Georgia until 1833, when Benjamin became the minister at the White Bluff Church in Savannah, Georgia. In April 1835, Rosa and Benjamin ...

Rogers, Nathaniel, 1788-1844

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Burroughs, Catherine Eirick.

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Burroughs family.

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Burroughs, James Powell.

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