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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Lamar Dodd papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection contains biographical information on artist Lamar Dodd spanning 1965-1990. Materials include correspondence between Dodd and John Powell and others, exhibition programs, newspaper clippings, and color photographs of artistic works. Materials were originally collected by the late John Wesley Powell, close friend of Lamar Dodd.
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Latin America & Caribbean collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection, assembled by Dr. Corinna Zeltsman of Georgia Southern University, consists of items from Latin America and the Caribbean dating from 1692 to 1985. Materials include political pamphlets, newsletters, ephemera, sheet music, published books, and other materials. The subject matter includes U.S.-Latin American relations, popular culture, and revolutions.
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Laura Fraser diary
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
Spanning from 1889-1892, this collection consists of a diary once belonging to Victorian Liberty County resident, Laura Fraser. Contents include personal correspondence, written short stories from prominent writers, local newspaper clippings, and personal accounts.
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LeConte-Woodmanston Foundation records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the materials created by the LeConte-Woodmanston Foundation in the planning of the LeConte-Woodmanston Plantation historic plantation experience. Materials span 1991 to 2009 and include brochures, writings about the history of the plantation and its extensive restoration, site proposals regarding the plantation and gardens, area maps, and audiovisual materials created about the grounds. Also included within the collection are photographs, both historical and modern, of the plantation and its surrounding grounds.
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Leodel Coleman papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Leodel Coleman concerning his WWII service from 1942-1945. It includes stories for local newspapers about the U.S. Marine Corps mainly regarding promotions, weddings, and Purple Heart recipients. Additional correspondence between Margaret Mitchell and family are included.
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Leroy N. Suddath, Sr. papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the personal papers of Lieutenant Leroy N. Suddath, Sr. during his service in the U.S. Army during World War I from 1917-1918. Materials include a handwritten diary and a bound book of reproduced letters from Suddath to his wife, Lucille Howle Suddath. Also included are diary transcripts and digital reproductions of created in 2022.
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Les Vannetais letters to Kemp Mabry
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of fifty-seven letters from French residents of Vannes to Dr. (then Sgt.) Kemp Mabry, spanning 1945-53. Letters from members of the L'Honnen and Le Bourgne families, and especially from Suzanne Le Gleuher (later Saporita). User copies of the letters of “Les Vannetais” in two bound volumes are also included
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Lewis M. Gould papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the writings and personal papers of Lewis M. Gould. Materials span 1918-1991 and include his writings for Stars and Stripes, poems, and various clippings.
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Lila Blitch papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of handwritten personal materials from European trips undertaken by Lila Blitch dated 1937 and 1970. Also included is a miniature copy of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.
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Little Ogeechee Baptist Church records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of thirteen photocopied items pertaining to the Little Ogeechee Baptist Church. Materials include indentures, deeds, and articles of faith originally dated from 1814-1892.
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Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Association records
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of minutes of the Lotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Association (Bulloch County, Ga.) from 1905-1968. The minutes for 1906 are missing. The collection also includes printed minutes (ca. 1969-1971) of other Primitive Baptist Associations located mainly in Georgia.
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Lucile Hodges papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of Lucile Hodges personal family papers and genealogical research pertaining to families in and around Fort Stewart, Bryan County, Bulloch County, Evans County, Tattnall county, and others. Materials span 1897-1989 and include handwritten transcripts of several county census records, newspaper clippings, notes, scrapbooks, and photographs.
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Magnolia Gardens research transcripts
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Dr. George A. Rogers and Susan Moody in 1997 and 1998. Those interviewed were Mrs. Lee Anderson, Dr. Charlton Moseley and Mrs. Willie Lee Moseley, James Rigdon, and Mary Lee Jones Tucker. Interviewees remembered Daniel Edgar Bland and his wife Catherine as well as their farm, Magnolia Springs. Mr. and Mrs Bland both attended First District Agricultural and Mechanical School. The land on which their farm thrived is now part of the University, and the homestead itself is now the University Botanical Gardens.
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Margaret Mitchell letters to Laura Dorough Dyar
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of a series of twenty-one letters to Laura Dorough “Mother” Dyar from Margaret Mitchell, Mitchell’s husband, John Marsh, and Mitchell’s secretary Margaret E. Baugh, dating anywhere from 1936 to 1950. Most are signed by “Peggy” Mitchell, a nickname that Margaret Mitchell went by beginning in the 1920s. One letter is handwritten and includes a handwritten envelope while the others are typed. The letters, mostly the exchange of two close friends, contain content related to Mitchell’s writing of Gone With the Wind as well as mentions of the movie. Also included in the collection are printed and electronic research materials related to the Dyar family including newspaper clippings and photographs related to the letters, dating from 1921 to 2017.
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Marvin Pittman Laboratory School Final Year memorabilia
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of class activities, school work, and curricula for the Marvin Laboratory School’s last year, 1997-1998.
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Marvin Pittman Laboratory School history collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials documenting this history of Marvin Pittman Laboratory School. Materials span 1938-1997 the bulk of which cover 1970-1997 and include yearbooks, scrapbooks, student work, plaques, slides, photographs, and ephemera. Documentation of core expectations, courses taught, accomplishments, student/parent handbooks, and various activities during events are also housed in this collection.
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Mary Annis Keller family papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of photocopied letters of the Keller family of Bulloch County, Georgia from 1862-1903. Most letters are addressed to Mary Annis Keller (later Hodges), from cousins serving in the Confederate Army as well as later letters from other family members. Also included are muster rolls of various Confederate units, 1860 census records of Chatham and Effingham Counties, and a chart showing the value of Confederate money to gold, 1861-May 1866.
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Mary Evelyn Fortune papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of the papers of Mary Evelyn Fortune from 1939 to 2000. Materials include diplomas, newspaper clippings, photographs, certificates, awards, documents related to her involvement in civic organizations, and her funeral book.
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Mary Sue DeLoach Smith papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials created and collected by Mary Sue Deloach Smith as part of her 1999 dissertation, What did it mean to be a boarding teacher in a rural Bulloch County community in the 1930s and 1940s. Materials include In-depth interviews with fourteen people who worked as boarding teachers in Bulloch County, 1930-1940s, and transcription. Additional materials include three commissary account books for John H. Brannen farm, six miles west of Statesboro from 1929-1950s.
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Maxwell Taylor Courson papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, printed articles and brochures, drafts and personal cards and letters of Maxwell Taylor Courson while at Georgia Southern College. Events covered include conferences on Georgia Offshore Oil and Proposition 13, as well as information about Dr. Charles Herty, preparatory to writing an article. Also the College's acquisition of Windsor Village apartments, which became dormitories.
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Melissa Brown collection of "A Loud Absence" project materials
Zach S. Henderson Library, Special Collections
This collection consists of photographs and digital files created by artist Melissa Brown as part of her project, titled "A Loud Absence." According to the artist, the project sought to discover what happens to a space after great injustice has been committed in it. The project examines whether a community's choice of what to do with such an area reflects healing or reveals that they have not moved forward from their past.
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Mercer Centennial collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials pertaining to the planning and celebration of the 2009 centennial celebration of Johnny Mercer's birth, as well as materials related to the Johnny Mercer statue project in Savannah. Spanning 2004 to 2010, materials include commemorative documents, news clippings, magazine articles, programs, correspondence, posters, and brochures gathered by The Friends of Johnny Mercer.
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Mercer Family collection
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials related to the family of American lyricist and songwriter, Johnny Mercer. Materials span 1906 to 2010 and include letters, photographs, published material, newspaper clippings, memorabilia and unpublished manuscripts. The collection focuses on the Mercer family, especially Lilian C. Mercer and Nancy Mercer Gerard, as well as the life and career of Johnny Mercer.
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Michael Braz papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
This collection consists of materials documenting the career of contemporary American composer and Georgia Southern University Professor Emeritus Michael Braz. Materials span 2004 - 2007, and include professional files, photographs, costume designs, a three-dimensional set model, and articles primarily related to the 2007 production of A Scholar Under Siege. The opera concerns desegregation and racial politics in 1941 Georgia, focusing on the firing of Marvin Pittman, President of Georgia Teachers College, by Georgia governor Eugen Talmadge.
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Michael McDougald papers
Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections
The collection consists of a broad overview of the life of Michael McDougald, ranging from collegiate accolades, genealogical research, and business endeavors spanning 1886-2011. The collection includes personal correspondence, photographs, radio shows (WVOV, WAAX, WQTU), audio transcripts, speeches, addresses, and family genealogy.
