Finding Aids
A Finding Aid contains a listing of the collection's contents and their location within Special Collections. It will often describe and summarize the contents of a collection including aspects of its arrangement; the scope of its subject matter; organizations and persons of relevancy; and its chronology.
To conduct research or view materials, please Schedule a Research Appointment or contact Special Collections at specolle@georgiasouthern.edu.
-
Altamaha Raft Festivals collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection was assembled by Delma Eugene Presley and Norris Kemp Mabry and includes materials related to the Altahama Raft Festival, The festival was part of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Project RAFT: Restoring Altamaha Folklife Traditions which resulted from interviews with people who lived in the Altamaha River Valley. Materials include first-day cover letters, poster, newspaper clippings, promotional and interpretive brochures.
-
American Association of University Women Statesboro Branch records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials documenting the activities of the Statesboro Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Materials include meeting minutes, scrapbooks, publicity, yearbooks, and other materials spanning 1939 to 1993.
-
Bennett family collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials related to the Bennett Family spanning from 1890 to 1974. Materials of note include World War I correspondence, pamphlets, and ephemera, Collection also includes family financial documents and minutes of the Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Association.
-
Bernard S. Dekle papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the papers of Bernard S. Dekle, diplomat, author, and poet. Materials span 1939-1984 and include personal and professional correspondence, literary works, notebooks, photographs, and other unpublished writings including the genealogies of the Bowen and Dekle families and a memoir.
-
Betty Foy Sanders Art Collection records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials related to the Betty Foy Sanders Art Collection in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University. Materials span 1969 to 1985 and include brochures, promotional materials, and biographical sketches of exhibiting artists.
-
Billy Lee Evans papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the papers of Billy Lee Evans from 1977-1982. The papers include correspondence, legislative files, clippings, videotapes (1977-1980), and audiotapes documenting Evans' activities as a U.S. Representative from Georgia's 8th District. The materials include information on legislation before Congress, topics of interest to Evans or his constituents, and Evans' service on the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, particularly its oversight hearings on personal bankruptcy.
-
Bowles C. Ford collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collections spans 1970 to 1980 and includes documents and photocopies of newspaper clippings pertaining to Bowles C. Ford’s years as the first African-American alderman of Savannah.
-
Bronislaw M. Bak papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Papers of Georgia Southern faculty member, Bronislaw Marion “Bruno” Bak. Materials span from 1973 to 1981 and include correspondence, teaching materials, student papers, and artworks. Of particular note are documents pertaining to Bak’s work on the window for St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota and the 1980 biography by son, Clements R. Bak.
-
Bulloch County Board of Education records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Property deeds, financial records, school petitions, photographs, maps and meeting minutes of the Bulloch County Board of Education, 1888-1988.
-
Bulloch County Sociological Survey, 1949
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection includes interview transcripts and demographic records of Statesboro-Bulloch County residents and their views of social class divisions and current events in Bulloch County. Documents were compiled in 1949 by sociological researcher, Bevode C. McCall. His 1954 dissertation, “Georgia Town and Cracker Culture” is a result of this survey.
-
Bulloch County Sociological Survey, 1969-1972
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Collection consists of materials related to Taylor C. Scott’s sociological survey of Statesboro-Bulloch County residents from 1969 to 1972. Materials include completed resident and employment surveys, survey project reports, researcher notes, and general demographic records of Statesboro-Bulloch County residents. Additional documentation of survey methods and data including codebooks, maps, charts, and graphs are included.
Find this collection in the University Libraries' catalog. -
Bunce family papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Collection spans 1843 to 1995 and contains documents related to James Arthur Bunch’s education at First District Agricultural and Mechanical School and his subsequent career in agriculture as well that of his son Isaac Bunce. Newspaper clippings on the restoration of the Bunce farmhouse and other materials documenting the activities of the Bunce family in Bulloch County are included,
-
Canoochee River Valley Association records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of records of the Canoochee River Valley Association (CRVA) from 1968-1978. Includes correspondence to and from Georgia legislators and congressmen, Governor Jimmy Carter, Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox, and the Groveland Lakes Development Authority; minutes of CRVA meetings; petitions; resolutions; maps; newspaper clippings; and printed material.
-
Charles E. Cone Realty Company records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of the Charles E. Cone Realty Company records from 1926 to 1957 the bulk of which cover the post-war period under ownership of Robert Moore Benson. Materials include correspondence, real estate agreements, plats, and maps of Statesboro, Georgia. Additional documents pertaining to the Charles E. Cone Insurance Company and the Benson Insurance Company are also included which contain information about rates, community committees, and soil conservation regions.
-
Charles Holmes Herty papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Collection contains notebooks, photographs, and published material concerning Charles Homes Herty's 1901 experiments that resulted in the turpentine (or Herty) cup. The experiments were partly conducted on what later became the Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro campus. Includes typescript of "Charles Holmes Herty in Statesboro," by Maxwell Taylor Courson.
-
Charlton W. Tebeau papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of Charlton W. Tebeau’s handwritten autobiographical materials as well as those pertaining to his research on Effingham county history. Materials include photocopied Crum and Exley family correspondence (1835-1865); photocopied minutes of the Effingham County Agricultural Society (1869-1889); photocopied plats (1821-1839); photocopied records and deeds of Effingham County.
-
Clermont H. Lee papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of Clermont H. Lee’s research on the wild south Georgia shrub, Elliottia racemosa and the development of the Charles C. Harrold Nature Preserve in Candler County, Georgia. Materials span 1936 to 1994 and include correspondence, field notes, photographs, and published materials.
-
Corrie McDowell Martin papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection spans 1933 to 1979 and consists of administrative records, correspondence, promotional booklets, newspaper clippings, and related materials documenting the activities of Liberty County organizations in which Corrie McDowell Martin was actively involved. Materials include a two-volume record of Daughters of the American Colonists (1940-1957); founding documents of the Midway Museum, Inc.; United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1949-1973 and other materials that document the history of Midway and Liberty County, Georgia.
-
David A. Ruffin papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the personal and research papers of David Alexander Ruffin, Professor Emeritus of English, Georgia Southern College. Materials span 1939 to 1996 and include papers, literary works, diaries, letters, photographs, and negatives
-
DeLoach Primitive Baptist Church records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of photocopies of the DeLoach Primitive Baptist Church constitution and minutes from 1840 to 1961. Photographic slides of an Easter sunrise service are also included.
-
Donald Austin Olewine papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of Donald Austin Olewine’s research on various subjects related to medical physiology and biology. Materials span 1965-1982 and include published and unpublished articles, pamphlets, brochures, magazines, and student work.
-
Earl Tyler DeLoach papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the Earl Tyler DeLoach papers. Materials span 1918-1958 and include photographs, letters, clippings of DeLoach’s column in the Augusta Chronicle newspaper, and other writings, including short stories
-
Elias Hodges papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection contains the papers of Elias Hodges including field notes, plat diagrams, and calculations from Mr. Hodges' land surveying practice in Evans County, Georgia.
-
Eugenia Mills Fulcher Oral Histories
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of oral histories recorded by Eugenia Mills Fulcher from 1997-1998. The oral histories were used in Mills’ doctoral thesis, “Dreams Do Come True: How Rural One- and Two-Room Schools Influenced the Lives of African Americans in Burke County, Georgia, 1930- 1955,” defended in 1999 at Georgia Southern University. Materials include recordings on cassette tape and transcripts.
-
Evans, Tattnall, Toombs Counties Historic Resources Survey
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of ten volumes containing surveys of historic buildings and resources in three Georgia counties (Evans, Tattnall, Toombs) circa 1970.