MS. Manuscript Collections
Classification
Collection number: MS
Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:
Moody Air Force Base
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-60
Scope and Contents
In the past Valdosta State College has collaborated with Moody Air Force Base to provide servicemen with educational programs. Programs such as Bootstrap that allowed active duty servicement to take courses at Valdosta State at night were in place in the late 60s to the 70s. This collection contains correspondence and applications concerning VSC/Moody Air Force Base projects including PREP (Predischarge Education Program), which was provided to servicement hoping to refresh their academic...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1970's
Morris Smith Collection
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-85
Scope and Contents
Includes papers on books by Morris Smith - Spencer Road and Zambia Text. Drafts, Proofs, Reviews, Source Materials, Correspondence.
Dates:
Acquired: 2007-01-05
Mrs. Walter Williams Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-48
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Walter Williams Scrapbook is an old-fashioned scrapbook full of newspaper clippings, postcards, and photographs from the 1940s. This scrapbook shows a peek at life in Valdosta during this time-period, and also gives insight into the Wymodausis Club, of which Mrs. Williams was a member.Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users may encounter some...
Dates:
1940's
My Home Town
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-148
Scope and Contents
This is a video and digitized DVD of My Hometown about Cairo Georgia in Grady County. It was originally produced in 1947 by Sol Landsman and has been reissued by Roddenbery Memorial Library in 2001. It is labeled "Zebulon and Grady Theatres Present"Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users may encounter some...
Dates:
1947
Nell Roquemore Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-93
Scope and Contents
This collection houses the CDs of the research interview of Nell Patten Roquemore a graduate of Georgia State Womans College. It also has a scrapbook dedicated to Shannon Lynn Roquemore, and a signed copy of Roots, Rocks, and Recollections by Nell Roquemore.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1980 - 2000
New York Times Shakespeare Tercentenary Tribute
Collection — Item 1
Collection number: MS-155
Scope and Contents
From February to April of 1916 the New York Times published a special supplement commemorating the tercentenary (300 years) of William Shakespeare's death. A collection of these supplements (along with clippings from a 1915 Richmond Times Dispatch about the Bayeux Tapestry) was given to Arthur M. Gignilliat, a teacher at Valdosta State College in 1963/1964. Gignilliat passed this collection along to Alex McFadden who donated it to Archives and Special Collections. The Archives digitized...
Dates:
1916
Oath of Allegiance to the United States
Collection — Folder 1
Collection number: MS-39
Scope and Contents
This oath of allegiance was signed after the Civil War ended by Confederate soldiers affirming they would be loyal to the Union and "defend the Constitution of the United States".Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users may encounter some items within these collections that contain offensive language, viewpoints, imagery or other forms of objectionable...
Dates:
1860's
Obadiah Moye Day Book and Ledger
Collection — Binder 1 & 2
Collection number: MS-82
Scope and Contents
Obadiah Moye was an early 19th century resident of Southeast Georgia. His birthdate is uncertain though possibly 1813 but he was appointed a postmaster in Effingham County, of Eden Georgia. He also lived in Grooverville Ga(1858), and Lowndes County. This is his Day Book/Ledger dated 1858.Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users may encounter some items...
Dates:
1858
O.H. Pannkoke Collection
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-41
Scope and Contents
This box contains the manuscript to Otto Pannkoke's "A Great Church Finds Itself: The Lutheran Church between the Wars" published in 1966. For a related collection see the Pannkoke Horse Collection in and ArchivesSpace.
Dates:
Acquired: 1968
Park Avenue United Methodist Church Collection--Valdosta, Ga.
Collection — Folder 1
Collection number: MS-35
Scope and Contents
The First Twenty-Five Years Silver Anniversary Celebration Park Avenue Methodist Church, 1954-1979
Dates:
1954 - 1979
Pascagoula River Tribe Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-151
Abstract
This collection is accessible digitally, may be used only with permission of Dr. Dixie Ray Haggard of the VSU History Department and must be requested from the VSU Archives.The Live Oak Mississippi Pasgoula River Tribal Recognition Papers are a digital collection created by Valdosta State University History professor Dixie Ray Haggard. These documents are related to the ongoing legal proceedings of the Live Oak Pasgoula Tribe in Mississippi who are trying to gain federal tribal...
Dates:
Acquired: 2015-04-14
Patricia Sutherland Kelly Collection
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-116
Scope and Contents
Four scrapbooks and numerous loose items in sleeves that have fallen out of scrapbooks, some loose items in folders. All concerning Georgia State Womans College donated by Patricia Sutherland who attended GSWC 1946-1950. These scrapbooks have been digitized and are on Vtext under Patricia Sutherland Scrapbooks.Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users...
Dates:
Acquired: 2010-10-06
Patsy's Magazine
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-108
Scope and Contents
This box contains 12 issues of Patsy's Magazine, a beauty pageant publication. Crystal Carousel, a pageant held in Tifton, GA is mentioned in several issues while Ms. Gail Powell, a VSU alumni is also mentioned. The publications date from April 2000-August 2002
Dates:
2000 - 2002; Acquired: 2007-05-23
Piano Music Rolls
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-142
Scope and Contents
Contains player piano rolls for Serenade Espagnole by Chaminade and Etude by Strawinsky.
Dates:
Publication: 1890 - 1910
Poor School Funds
Collection — Item 1
Collection number: MS-80
Scope and Contents
A letter listing students in Appling County Georgia who are entitled to poor funds to pay their school tuition. The letter is dated November 23, 1841Harmful Content Policy:
Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collection’s collection houses materials collected to elucidate the past. We recognize that users may encounter some items within these collections that contain offensive language, viewpoints, imagery or other forms of objectionable content. Such materials...
Dates:
1841
Ramona Ice Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-56
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one framed photograph of the north side of Odum Library by Ramona Ice. There is aalso a box with information about camellias and research about Valdosta's Camellia Trail.
Dates:
Acquired: 2014-08-26
Richard Ransom Family Papers
Collection — Box 1
Collection number: MS-13
Scope and Contents
The Richard Ransom Family papers collection is housed entirely in one box and within that box there are three folders. The first of the three folders contains the Item Inventory, the loan receipts from the previous institutions, a memorandum, and the collection or unit description sheet. The second folder contains all of the Ransom Family papers in Xerox form. The papers are in the format of letters, poems, pictures, and one handwritten menu. The folder’s oldest...
Dates:
1836-1925
Ross Rosenberg Art Collection
Unprocessed
Collection number: MS/91
Ross Rosenberg Art Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-91
Scope and Contents
A description of pieces by New York Artist Ross Rosenberg held by the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections:
Ross Rosenberg
I am drawn to commonplace subjects such as chairs and houses because they are comfortingly familiar but at the same time they allow me to express feelings of mystery and foreboding. It is the ambiguity that involves me.
Most of the images are based on early childhood memories. The rounded chair,...
Dates:
Acquired: 2008-09-03
Sara Tillman Christmas Costume Dress
Collection — Item 1
Collection number: MS-44
Scope and Contents
Christmas Festival costume worn in the 1949 Christmas Festival. Donated by Sara Tillman.
Dates:
Acquired: 2000-07-13; 1949