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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E. A. Smith Grain Company records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists chiefly of the records of the E.A. Smith Grain Company from 1919-1960. Records include bound account books, receipts documenting business transactions, and financial activities of the company and others.
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Edward A. Abercrombie First-day Covers and Stamps
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of Edward A. Abercrombie’s first edition stamp collection. Materials include first-day covers and United States Postage Stamps from 1950-1984. Notable within this collection is a special cover on the last day of operation of the Statesboro Northern Railroad.
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Edward G. Little papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection contains Edward G. Little’s personal and professional work, notes, and photographs as a professor, researcher, and scholar from 1921 until his passing in 1998. Included are handwritten and typed drafts and portions of his book Icelandic Sagas: Crossroads of Myth, History, and Sociology, photographs from Iceland, of family, and of research, a great deal of research notes, as well as papers documenting. Little’s time in the Air Force and other group involvements.
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Edward M. Higgins papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the personal and naval papers of Edward M. Higgins, along with photographs and objects related to his career. The materials cover the multiple ships he served on, as well as personal correspondence and photographs from his family. The bulk of the documents are from 1940-1968.
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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.
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Elizabeth Findley Shores collection of Roland M. Harper
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of articles and letters-to-the-editor written by Roland M. Harper for publication in scholarly journals. Sometimes in typescript, his works focus on botany, conservation, and social conditions, primarily in the southeastern United States. Spanning 1906-1965, additional documents, photographs and audio visual materials pertaining to Roland M. Harper’s family history are included. The collection’s creator, Elizabeth Findley Shores, is the author of the biography On Harper's Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain (2008).
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Erk Russell Oral History Interview and Performance Project
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the typed transcripts of interviews with the friends and acquaintances of Coach Erk Russell, whom they worked alongside during his time as the Georgia Southern Eagles football coach in the 1980s and into his retirement in the 1990s. All interviews were conducted by volunteer interviewers from the Communication Arts Department at Georgia Southern University between October 2007 and February 2008.
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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.
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Evans County Centennial Celebration collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Spanning 1911-2014, the materials in this collection include historic photographs, maps, and manuscript materials that were acquired and created by the Evans County Centennial Celebration committee during the Centennial Celebration of Evans County. With one exception, materials span the one hundred years since the county’s founding in 1914. The Centennial Celebration committee sponsored and produced several publications about the history of Evans County. Digital materials consist of photographs, video recordings, maps and other materials about the history of Evans County and the centennial celebration
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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.
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F. F. Floyd papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of papers related to Dr. Frank Forrest Floyd’s medical practice in Stilson, Georgia. Materials span 1901-1911 and include personal daybooks, notepads, patient financial information, and a significant number of professional and personal receipts.
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Fielding Dillard Russell papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of Dr. Fielding Dillard Russell’s professional files during his tenure as Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Languages at Georgia Southern College. Materials include correspondence, clippings, class notes, student work, and articles on English literature. Some materials and photographs provide genealogical information on the Russell family.
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First Baptist Church Statesboro records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of photocopies of the First Baptist Church Statesboro records including church minutes, conference proceedings, and related materials spanning 1882-1974.
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First District Agricultural & Mechanical School Land Title records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials related to the acquisition of land for the First District Agricultural & Mechanical School (Georgia Southern University), campus. Materials span 1906-1916 and include land deeds, correspondence, financial agreements, and other legal documentation. Prominent figures include Bulloch County residents, A.M. Deal, J.E. Donehoo, and Robert Lee Moore.
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F.N. Carter Store records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of four ledgers from 1941-1952 regarding the F. N. Carter family's businesses: including their general store, cotton gin, trucking company, farm, and turpentine still.
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Frances Corry Lane papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of Frances Corry Lane’s genealogical research pertaining to nineteenth-century Wiregrass Georgia counties, including Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel, and Screven Counties. Materials include handwritten transcripts of several county census records, newspaper clippings, notes, and a register book.
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Francis Harper papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Cornell-trained naturalist Dr. Francis Harper. Materials span 1904-1972 and include field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual materials documenting the plant and animal life as well as human ecology of the Okefenokee Swamp area of South Georgia. The photographs within Series 1 show the flora, fauna, and people of the Okefenokee swamp. The photographs were taken by the Harpers while on their trips to the swamp. Photographs are all in black and white and range in size. The Field Journals chronicle his travels in the okefenokee, Canada, and New England. Materials were used in the writing of Okefinokee Album (sic) by Francis Harper and Dr. Delma “Del” Eugene Presley, published posthumously in 1981.
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Frank Fortune Photographic Slides
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of photographic slides of Georgia Southern athletic events from 1981-2000 taken by Frank Fortune. Most of the slides depict football related events but student life, campus, events, trips, faculty headshots and additional sports are also included.
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Frank Skinner collection of Gone With The Wind memorabilia
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the auctioned papers of Frank Sinner of Waynesboro, Georgia who worked as an NBC set designer in the 1960s. Materials include photographs and negatives of the film production of Gone With the Wind (1939). Also included are three letters to Frank Skinner from John R. Marsh, Margaret Mitchell’s husband.
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Frazier family papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection was assembled by John A. Frazier of Bulloch County, Georgia. Materials span 1789-1973 and consist of records, mostly letters and deeds, once belonging to families allied to the Frazier family of Washington County, Georgia--particularly the Harman & Brown families, with special focus on Lucy H. Harman and Morgan Brown. Materials also include various court orders; receipts; promissory notes; land plats; genealogical records; certificates; additional correspondence and accounts.
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Fred R. Hartz papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of Frederic R. Hartz’ research on prison librarianship. Materials span 1956-1987 and include published materials from magazines, peer-reviewed journals, and books.
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Frieda Gernant Christmas Card collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the materials for a museum exhibit of the work of Frieda Gernant, Professor Emerita of Art at Georgia Southern University. Materials include an inventory list, exhibit materials, and fifty-five years of homemade Christmas cards designed by Gernant from 1935-1990.
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George A. Rogers papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the personal and research papers of George A. Rogers, Jr., Professor of History, Georgia Southern College. Materials span 1953 to 2004 and include professional correspondence, research notes on botany, aerial photographs, and variety cards on camellia species.
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George H. Shriver papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Georgia Southern Professor Emeritus, George H. Shriver. Materials span from 1973 to 1997 and include correspondence, teaching materials, published articles, and manuscripts related to religion in the American South. Additional materials related to Shriver’s tennis coaching career for the Georgia Southern’s Lady Eagles Tennis team are also included.
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George W. Scott Civil War letters
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Spanning 1857 to 1865, this collection consists of photocopies of handwritten letters from Union soldier George W. Scott to his fiancée (later wife), Kezia S. Piper, as well as his brother, John Scott. The collection also includes the discharge certificate (photocopy) of Cyrus W. Will from Company C, 185th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, May 1863.
