Steamship Savannah Replica Commission records, 1963-1974.

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Steamship Savannah Replica Commission records, 1963-1974.

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This collection contains correspondence, minutes, and reports from the Steamship Savannah Replica Commission from 1963 to 1974. Majority of these papers include correspondence with Malcolm Bell, Jr. who served as a vice chairman of the commission, Charles Ellis, who served as chairman of the commission, and Mills B. Lane, who was often consulted about the project. Also included are reports regarding the possibility of acquiring the N.S. Savannah as a stationary museum.

2 folders (.20 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Steamship Savannah Replica Commission (Savannah, Ga.)

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The Savannah Steamship Replica Commission was organized in 1963 to develop plans for the construction of an authentic replica of the S.S. Savannah, the first steamship to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1819, to be used as a stationary museum. When this endeavor failed, the commission then attempted to have the N.S. Savannah, the first nuclear powered cargo-passenger ship, as a stationary museum in Savannah. From the description of Steamship Savannah Replica Commission records, 1963...

Savannah (Steamship)

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Lane, Mills B. (Mills Bee), 1912-1989

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Mills B. Lane, Jr. was born in Savannah, Georgia on 12 January 1912 to Mary Comer and Mills B. Lane, Sr. He was married to Anne Waring and the couple had two children, Mills B. Lane, IV and Anita. He graduated from Yale University in 1934 and then took a job in Valdosta, Georgia as a clerk at Citizens and Southern National Bank, an institution that his father founded. Following the death of his father in 1946, Lane assumed the position of president of the bank and led the bank for nearly thirty ...

Bell, Malcolm, 1913-2001

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Malcolm Bell Jr. (1913-2001), photographer, historian, and bank president, was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1913. In 1939, at the age of twenty-six, Bell and his wife, Muriel Barrow Bell, became involved with the Savannah Unit of the Georgia Writers' Project, a Works Progress Administration program, to interview and photograph coastal Georgia blacks who were of African descent. Under the leadership of Mary Granger, the Savannah Unit interviewed ca. one hundred thirty-four people in twenty locat...

Ellis, Charles, 1907-1964.

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Savannah (Nuclear ship)

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