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Sharon Adams papers, 1970-2010

9.5 linear feet (10 boxes), 1 oversized papers folder (OP) and AV Masters: .5 linear feet (1 box)

Papers of Atlanta activist and businesswoman Sharon Adams, relating to the elections of Georgia Governor Zell Miller, Atlanta Mayors Maynard Jackson and Shirley Jackson, and Betty Talmadge's run for Congress. Also includes material relating to the Atlanta women's movement in the 1970s when Adams was president of the NOW Atlanta Chapter.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Bill Arp papers, 1834-1952 (bulk 1834-1903)

.25 linear ft. (1 box) ; 1 microfilm reel (MF)

Papers (many photocopies) of Georgia lawyer and humorist Bill Arp (Charles Henry Smith) including newspaper columns, a dissertation, correspondence, legal documents, and a bill of sale.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Robert Lee Avary papers, 1895-1947

2.25 linear ft. (5 boxes)

Correspondence, business papers, and printed materials of Atlanta lawyer and educator Robert Lee Avary.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

W.H. Auden collection, 1934-1988

2 linear feet (4 boxes), 1 oversized papers box and 1 oversized papers folder (OP), and AV Masters: .25 linear feet (1 box)

Collection of material related to English poet W.H. Auden, including essays, a manuscript poem, newspaper clippings, reviews, programs, and photographs.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Atlanta Hillel records, 1963-2006 (bulk 1963-1988)

1.5 linear ft. (2 boxes) and

Atlanta Hillel was an organization for Jewish college students in Atlanta, Ga. The collection consists of records of Atlanta Hillel programs at Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Oglethorpe University, including correspondence, membership materials, and subject files. There is also printed material, 2004-2006, produced by Emory Hillel, a related organization for Jewish students at Emory University.

Repository: Emory University Archives

Oscar W. Adams papers, 1910-1978

4.5 linear feet (9 boxes), 1 bound volume (BV), and 1 oversized papers box and 1 oversized papers folder (OP)

Papers of Oscar W. Adams, African American journalist, newspaper publisher, and a national fraternal leader for the Knights of Pythias including correspondence, financial records, printed material, organizational records, subject files, writings and ephemera.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Dore Ashton and Matti Megged collection, 1942-1994

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Collection of letters to author Dore Ashton and Matti Megged including corresondence from Octavio Paz, Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, E. E. Cummings and Bernard Malamud.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

John Adams Religious Discourses, 1735

0.25 cubic ft. (1 volume)

Contains one bound manuscript of religious discourses by John Adams.

Repository: Pitts Theology Library

Julia Adams scrapbooks, circa 1926-1942

1 microfilm reel (MF)

Microfilm copy of three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings maintained by journalist Julia Adams of Putnam County, Georgia.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

John H. Ash papers, circa 1860-1917

.5 linear ft. (1 box ) ; 2 microfilm reels (MF)

Papers of Civil War soldier, John H. Ash, from 1860-1917 that include twenty diaries (1860-1865), two letters, documents, notes, clippings, a review, and an essay relating to the 5th Regiment Georgia Cavalry during and after the Civil War.

Repository: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library