Converse Hall
Subject
Subject Source: Othersourc
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Annie Sue Metzger (Brandon) Collection
Collection
Collection number: UA-22-23
Scope and Contents
This collection contains artwork produced by Annie Sue (Brandon) Metzger in 1932-1933. They are paintings, sketches, and drawings of Georgia State Womans College (GSWC). Included are Ashley, Converse, and West Hall, as well as other sites such as the GSWC kitchen and boiler building.
Dates:
1932 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1933; Acquired: Date acquired: 03/28/1999
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Elliott C. Shull III. Collection
Collection — Box 01
Collection number: MS-90
Scope and Contents
The collection contains an accounting book that was left when a student evacuated Converse Hall when the building burned down in 1978. The pages the book was left open on bear significant smoke damage from the blaze.
Dates:
1978; Acquired: 2008-04-01
Frank R. Reade Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-2-1-3
Scope and Contents
Reade's papers invite leisurely perusal to appreciate his humor and erudition. His papers are expansive, covering topics from his family and genealogy to administrative correspondence to correspondence with and photographs of the famous men and women of his day. The collection includes books, journals, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and realia. The correspondence ranges from a manuscript of a Civil War era diary by Frank Smith Robertson (1841-1926), Reade's...
Dates:
1841 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1948
Richard Holmes Powell Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-2-1-1
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection are of particular interest and importance. They are the earliest records of establishing a college in Southwest Georgia, and clearly indicate the city of Valdosta's and Lowndes County's desire to have an institute of higher learning. Powell took his job as the first president of the College very seriously, and this is reflected in his writings and correspondence. His papers outline the struggles of literally starting a school from the ground up, and deal with...
Dates:
1895 - 1933
Valdosta State College/University History
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-22-6-2
Abstract
This collection contains material from the 1950-1993 time period in Valdosta State University history. During this time Valdosta State University was known as Valdosta State College. Renamed VSC from Georgia State Womens College in 1950, the school embarked on a new era as a co-ed campus. During the 1950?s the University expanded with the acquisition of the former Emory University campus at Valdosta in 1953, this became what is now known as North Campus. Greek organizations began to appear...
Dates:
Acquired: 2010-06-09; 1906 - 2018