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Georgia -- Carrollton -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Hargrave Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0014
Overview

This collection consists of original letters and photographs, as well as copies of both, from the Hargrave family of Carroll County, Georgia.

Dates: bulk 1858-1949

Kate Harman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0027
Overview

Papers of Kate Harman, known as “Mama Kate.” Harman was the food service manager for West Georgia College’s snack bar for eight years.

Dates: 1950-1982

Susan Hayward collection

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0034
Overview

A collection of materials related to the life and career of Susan Hayward, an Academy Award-winning actress of the mid-twentieth century. Her career spanned several decades, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Dates: 1942 - 2001

Myron House oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0078
Overview

This collection contains 187 cassette tapes, 31 compact discs, 9 VHS tapes, and six paper transcripts. The recordings are oral history interviews, speeches, and musical instruction and performances.

Dates: 1942-2003

Anne G. Ingram papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0030
Overview

Papers of Anne G. Ingram, daughter of first West Georgia College president, Irvine S. Ingram, and his wife Martha Munro.

Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1930-2005; 1805-2005

Frances Barrow Jackson collection

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0084
Overview

Photographs and other materials pertaining to the Barr, Barrow, Jackson, Lovvorn, and Morris families from Bowdon.

Dates: Approx. 1870s-1936

kNow Justice, kNow Peace photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0065
Overview

Photographs of the kNow Justice, kNow Peace march on the University of West Georgia campus which occurred on December 2, 2014.

Dates: 2014

Lit-Mu Club records

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0050
Overview

News clippings and pamphlets from literary arts club in Carrollton, Georgia.

Dates: 1952-2015

Benjamin Mandeville Long papers

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0010
Overview

Photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, and other materials of Benjamin Mandeville Long (1881-1973), the oldest child of two-time Carrollton mayor Henry and Lula Long. After serving in the U.S. Army, Long began a banking career in Cordova, Alabama in 1906. He returned to Carrollton in 1914 and worked in the Peoples Bank until 1917 when he opened Long Insurance Agency. Long remained in insurance from 1917 until the late 1960s when he retired.

Dates: bulk 1840-1973

Mandeville Mills collection

 Collection
Identifier: LH-0033
Overview

Collection includes corporate magazine Mandeville Yarns, medallions issued for the fiftieth anniversary in 1952, and “Recollections of Mandeville Mills” by Miss Mary Lovvorn.

Dates: approximately 1947-1985