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Appleton School Reader; 4th Reader, 1848. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

Vintage reading schoolbook from the 20th century, featuring passages and stories that were used to help teach young readers.

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Assorted Photos, 1934-ca.1960. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

Collection of Photographs featuring students and teachers at the Ray City school. Oldest photos seem to date to around the 1930's.

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Baccalaureate and Graduation Serivces 1937-1952. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

High School Graduation included a Baccalaureate Sermon and Graduation Service. The Baccalaureate programs were held on Sunday morning in the auditorium, and included a sermon, hymn, and reading of scripture from the Bible.

Scope and Contents Official Historical Photos Project of the Berrien Historical Foundation. Berrien County Historical Foundation: Berrien County, Georgia Historical Photograph Collection. Online photograph collection downloaded from SmugMug on May 5, 2025. Includes over 16,000 photos on many subjects, including Berrien County High School, local businesses, sports events, churches, farming, timber and turpentine, family photo collections, and much more. This photograph collection is...

Scope and Contents The Berrien County Historical Foundation Collection is a partnership between the Foundation and Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections to digitize, preserve, and provide access to materials documenting the history and families of Berrien County, Georgia. Established in 1995, the Foundation is dedicated to promoting local history through educational programming, community projects, and stewardship of archival resources. This digital collection features family...

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Boys Basketball Tournament, Ray Ciy High School, Feb. 1948. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

Pamphlet detailing the local Boys Basketball Tournament from February 1948. Illustrates the Tournament bracket and players on each team. It also features a number of advretisements from buisnesses within the surrounding area.

Scope and Contents This web archive preserves the Ray City History Blog, a community-based digital history project created by the Ray City Community Library, documenting the genealogical, local, and cultural history of Ray City, Georgia, and surrounding communities in Berrien County and south Georgia. The blog includes over 7,400 entries published across more than a decade, featuring biographical sketches, transcriptions of historical documents, photographs, and essays related to regional history from the...

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Miscellaneous residential and commercial deeds, platts, and maps from counties and towns in Southeast GA and Northeast FL. Places: Brunswick, Camden County, Nahunta, Ware County, Twiggs County, Brantley County, Glynn County, Colquitt County, Jacksonville. Dates range from 1803-1942. Digital image links are listed individually under Collection Digital Materials. The images are also accessible through https://vtext.valdosta.edu/xmlui/handle/10428/3945 .

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Dramatics Club Programs 1936-1938. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

The program for 3 plays hosted by the Ray City school Dramatics Club durring the 1930's.

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Girls Basketball Tournament, Ray Ciy High School, Feb. 1949. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

Pamphlet detailing the local Girls Basketball Tournament from February 1949. Illustrates the Tournament bracket and players on each team. It also features a number of advretisements from buisnesses within the surrounding area.

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with L.A. "Stick" Nelson, July 10, 2003. Nashville (Ga.). Fieldworker: LeRoy Henderson. Audio file digitized from cassette tape. Part of the South Georgia Folklife Project at Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections. Topics include family history and turpentining.Subjects: Georgia; Oral histories; Sound recordings; African Americans; Turpentine; Naval Stores; Turpentining; Turpentine industry and trade; Nelson, L.A. (1905-2004); Nashville...

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Jessie Mae Smith Collection. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

Small colleciton of materials chronicling the expirence of Jessie Mae Smith, a student at Ray City School who graduated in 1937.

Scope and Contents Jimmie Johnson Cllection, ca. 1930s. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.Jimmie Johnson attended Ray City School in the 1930s. This collection includes artifacts from over a decade in education. The Red Bird Notebook, and Beginner's Book of Writing and Spelling, were used durring elementary school. The Class Roll Notebook, Report Card, and Baccalaureate Program document his time in the upper gredes through...

Scope and Contents Lunch Room Dedication, 149. rom the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.Before Ray City School had a lunchroom, children would eat outisde. Allegedly, this lead to the campus being visited by livestock in search of a snack. The school put up a cattle guard and a fence to keep the animals out. In their continued service at home, veterans returning from WWII built a new lunchroom for the Ray City School. Notable participants in...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook, compiled by Elizabeth Mary Parrish in 1925, contains 77 pages of photographs documenting her family, friends, and student life at Georgia State Womans College. The images depict campus buildings, social activities, and personal moments, providing insight into collegiate experiences and cultural context during the early 20th century in Valdosta, Georgia.This item was loaned to the Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections for digitization. The...

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Merton-McCall Readers; At Work and Play, 1937. From the Ray City Community Library at Valdosta State University Archives and Speical Collections.

Vintage reading schoolbook from the 20th century, featuring passages and stories that were used to help teach young readers.

Abstract The Old Berrien Newsletters series consists of seventeen issues produced by the Berrien County Historical Foundation between 2007 and the present. The newsletters document a wide range of topics relating to the history, culture, and development of Berrien County, Georgia, and the surrounding Wiregrass region. Each issue focuses on a single historical subject, drawing on archival research, family papers, oral histories, newspaper accounts, and local...