Book collecting -- Georgia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
De Renne-Callaway book ephemera
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1127
Scope and Content
This collection contains documents found in books from the De Renne and Callaway collections of the Cherokee Garden Library. Materials include clippings, correspondence, handwritten notes, articles, offprints, and invoices. Clippings and articles cover a wide range of topics including vegetable growing, botany, history, poetry, and William Shakespeare. In 1970, Callaway Gardens purchased a collection of De Renne books. Correspondence from these books was largely part of Augusta De Renne's...
Dates:
1891-1966, undated
Series I: Research records, 1692-1992, undated
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains research on Alabama and Georgia history, Robertson and Smith family histories, the history of textiles, nineteenth century newspapers, museums and libraries, potpourri, nineteenth century pamphlets and speeches, Thomas Sheraton, and a study of pain and pleasure. The bulk of the collection are Smith’s hand-written notes and notecards on these subjects. Of particular note are eighteenth century documents about the trade of enslaved persons, an Almanac from 1730, and a...
Dates:
1692-1992, undated
Series III: Personal and business papers, 1889-1993, undated
Series
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials compiled by Harvey Smith Jr. about his personal and professional life. Included are certificates, correspondence, personal and professional financial records, invitations, papers from his service in the united States Marine Corps before and after World War II, and educational records. Additionally there are plays, poems, article clippings, event programs, donation records, real estate deeds, unfinished memoirs, and personal inventories. The series also contains...
Dates:
1889-1993, undated