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.
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Altamaha Raft Festivals Collection
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
First-day cover letters, poster, newspaper clippings, promotional and interpretive brochures. Festivals were part of Project RAFT (Restore Altamaha Folklife Traditions.).
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American Association of University Women. Statesboro Branch papers, 1939-
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
American Association of University Women. Statesboro Branch papers, 1939-
Files, minutes, scrapbooks, publicity, annuals, etc.
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Award for Excellence Collection
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
Texts, drafts, notes, and some tape recordings of the addresses given by GSU faculty members upon whom the award, established in 1985, has been conferred. County history, book 5].
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Banks (Smith Callaway) papers
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
Letters of Bulloch County Primitive Baptists, 1933-1946; papers of the Statesboro Chamber of Commerce, headed by Osborne Banks; Statesboro voters lists, 1961-1963; records of City Dairy Company, 1955-1982; farm register of grandfather, Joshua Smith (1876-1949).
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Beasley sheet music
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
Miscellaneous pages torn from music albums, articles, 67 pieces of identifiable music placed in overall Sheet Music Collection.
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Bennett Family Collection
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
World War I correspondence and items; Baptist church records.
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Betty Foy Sanders Art Collection Papers
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
Information on art and artists in the Betty Foy Sanders Art Collection in the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University.
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Bill of Rights Conference, 1991
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
Drafts, publicity, and newspaper clippings concerning the conference at Georgia Southern University in 1991.
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Bowles C. Ford Collection
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
41 items. Photocpies of newspaper clippings pertaining to Mr. Ford's years (1970-1980) as the first African-American alderman of Savannah.
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Bronislaw M. Bak Collection
University Libraries, Zach S. Henderson Library
Bronislaw M. Bak, 1922-1981, born in Poland, fought German invasion, survived concentration camp, trained in art in Mannheim, emigrated to the United States in 1952. Ran Chicago art school, Studio 22. For health reasons, took position at Georgia Southern College, 1973, as an Associate Professor of Art.
The collection consists of papers, sketches, projects, art works. 1980 biography by his son, Clemens R. Bak.